{"id":32610,"date":"2016-01-24T09:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=32610"},"modified":"2016-01-24T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T14:23:48","slug":"louder-f1-for-2016-significant-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/louder-f1-for-2016-significant-lowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Louder F1 for 2016 &#8216;significant&#8217; &#8211; Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 appears to have succeeded in turning up the volume for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>With many fans, race promoters and other stakeholders disappointed with the milder tones of the new &#8216;power unit&#8217; era, the regulations have been tweaked for the new season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wastegate was causing a sort of silencing of the main exhaust pipe,&#8221; explained technical chief <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Gv2DOmLkm_g\" target=\"_blank\">Paddy Lowe in a Mercedes video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the wastegate will have its own exhaust pipe in order to create more noise and, according to Lowe, &#8220;It will work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His counterpart at Williams, Pat Symonds, agrees, saying recently that the volume could be 25 per cent louder in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will see how much louder they will be,&#8221; said Lowe, &#8220;but some measurements have been made in the labs and we have seen a significant increase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gv2DOmLkm_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 appears to have succeeded in turning up the volume for 2016. With many fans, race promoters and other stakeholders disappointed with the milder tones of the new &#8216;power unit&#8217; era, the regulations have been tweaked for the new season. &#8220;The wastegate was causing a sort of silencing of the main exhaust pipe,&#8221; explained technical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,1182,551,276],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32612,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610\/revisions\/32612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}