{"id":3821,"date":"2010-03-27T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2010-03-27T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T13:49:17","slug":"horner-says-no-ride-height-system-on-red-bull-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/horner-says-no-ride-height-system-on-red-bull-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner says no ride-height system on Red Bull car"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Red Bull team boss Christian Horner late on Saturday denied that the RB6 car is running a controversial ride-height adjustment system.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber dominated qualifying in Melbourne, McLaren chief Martin Whitmarsh suggested they had been boosted by a system that allowed the cars to remain low to the ground despite the huge load of fuel that must now be added for Sunday&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmarsh said he had &#8220;evidence of ride-height control systems&#8221; being in use, &#8220;which many people wouldn&#8217;t have thought were permissible&#8221;, and that McLaren would therefore have to also design one.<\/p>\n<p>But Red Bull&#8217;s Horner told the BBC that he could &#8220;absolutely guarantee&#8221; the RB6 has no such system.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Whitmarsh had said after qualifying that he thought &#8220;some cars&#8221; &#8211; not just the Red Bull &#8211; were running a ride-height system.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving Albert Park late on Saturday, Mercedes&#8217; Ross Brawn indicated that he is aware of the claims about the systems, and encouraged the FIA to make a ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Horner, meanwhile, hinted that sour grapes might be in play, after he was the one who blew the whistle on McLaren&#8217;s F-duct prior to Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are funny things happening at McLaren &#8212; Lewis managing Mark, Ron reckoning we have a fuel problem and now Martin reckons we have a ride-height control,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull team boss Christian Horner late on Saturday denied that the RB6 car is running a controversial ride-height adjustment system. \u00a0<\/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":[128,5262,5300,5261,5340,165,129,1163,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821"}],"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=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}