{"id":3370,"date":"2010-03-17T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2010-03-17T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:58:09","slug":"ferrari-engineer-working-on-diffuser-for-b-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-engineer-working-on-diffuser-for-b-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari engineer working on diffuser for &#8216;B&#8217; car"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rumours that Ferrari is working on a &#8216;B&#8217; version of its new F10 car have resurfaced.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We reported Italian media speculation in late January that a significant overhaul of the single seater, which finished first and second on debut in Bahrain last weekend, is taking place.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s weekly Autosprint magazine has now revealed more details, including that Giuseppe Azzollini &#8211; a CFD expert &#8211; was employed by the Maranello based team late last year following Toyota&#8217;s withdrawal from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>It is suggested he is now working on a considerable development of the F10&#8217;s double diffuser that cannot be accommodated in the current layout of the chassis.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Azzollini&#8217;s diffuser concept would have featured on Toyota&#8217;s TF110 design, which although taken over by Stefan GP is not destined to race this season.<\/p>\n<p>A more immediate change to the 2010 Ferrari is better cooling, after both Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa&#8217;s engines had to be changed prior to the Bahrain race.<\/p>\n<p>Massa, meanwhile, said in the post-race press conference that he was asked to conserve fuel for 30 laps, where in fact the reason for his tempered pace was overheating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The temperature of the engine is the result of the aerodynamics of the car, so we have to work on that in order to make sure that we don&#8217;t have any more of these kinds of issues for the next hot races,&#8221; said team boss Stefano Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours that Ferrari is working on a &#8216;B&#8217; version of its new F10 car have resurfaced. \u00a0 We reported Italian media speculation in late January that a significant overhaul of the single seater, which finished first and second on debut in Bahrain last weekend, is taking place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,93,977,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370"}],"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=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}