{"id":3697,"date":"2010-03-24T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2010-03-24T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:28:11","slug":"sauber-set-to-run-mclaren-type-air-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-set-to-run-mclaren-type-air-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber set to run McLaren-type air system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to rumours from the Melbourne pitlane on Wednesday, Sauber is ready to test an initial version of the controversial McLaren-style knee-activated air inlet system.<!--more--><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The innovation, where air is allowed to pass through the car and onto the rear wing by the movement of the drivers&#8217; knee, was declared legal on McLaren&#8217;s MP4-25 in Bahrain two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the system works by &#8216;stalling&#8217; the efficiency of the downforce-producing rear wing, thereby producing more straight-line speed when the car is not cornering.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren had spent some time pioneering the system, so it is a surprise that Sauber has so quickly readied a version for its Ferrari-powered C29.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the Swiss team has not decided whether to actually run the system in Melbourne this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, technical boss Willy Rampf said: &#8220;Ask me (about it) on Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is likely Mercedes will be among the next F1 teams to also introduce the inlet system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had an idea that they (McLaren) were doing it &#8212; we didn&#8217;t understand how they were doing it,&#8221; said team boss Ross Brawn.\u00a0 &#8220;But now we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to rumours from the Melbourne pitlane on Wednesday, Sauber is ready to test an initial version of the controversial McLaren-style knee-activated air inlet system.<\/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":[5262,5261,5284,114,319],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697"}],"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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}