{"id":3876,"date":"2010-03-29T06:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2010-03-29T06:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:48:51","slug":"mercedes-eyes-barcelona-debut-for-f-duct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-eyes-barcelona-debut-for-f-duct\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes eyes Barcelona debut for &#8216;F-duct&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mercedes is targeting May&#8217;s Spanish grand prix for the debut of its own McLaren-style &#8216;F-duct&#8217; air inlet system.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After Sauber tested (but did not race) a version in Australia, Williams&#8217; Sam Michael said the Grove based team aims to be ready with the downforce-spoiling F-duct in China mid next month.<\/p>\n<p>We reported that Mercedes may have been having trouble implementing the system due to the chassis homologation rules.<\/p>\n<p>But Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper quoted Norbert Haug as indicating that any such problems for the Brackley based team are not insurmountable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are several teams working on it, and so are we,&#8221; said the German.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe we will take it to the race on 9 May in Barcelona,&#8221; added Haug.<\/p>\n<p>Renault has ruled out designing an F-duct, but it is believed that Ferrari, Force India and Red Bull are all working on systems.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is targeting May&#8217;s Spanish grand prix for the debut of its own McLaren-style &#8216;F-duct&#8217; 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":[1175,5262,5261,5340,34,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876"}],"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=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}