{"id":3936,"date":"2010-03-30T07:02:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2010-03-30T07:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:01:03","slug":"technical-rows-part-of-the-game-domenicali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/technical-rows-part-of-the-game-domenicali\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical rows &#8216;part of the game&#8217; &#8211; Domenicali"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Stefano Domenicali insists that a new technical row will not threaten the harmony of the formula one teams&#8217; alliance FOTA.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After Red Bull dominated qualifying in Melbourne last Saturday, McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh suggested the RB6 might be hiding a controversial adjustable ride-height system.<\/p>\n<p>But Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner hit back by issuing an &#8220;absolute guarantee&#8221; that Whitmarsh, who is also the new FOTA chairman, is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Tension between those two teams was already high, after Horner blew the lid on McLaren&#8217;s &#8216;F-duct&#8217; innovation that is now in the process of being imitated by many in pitlane.<\/p>\n<p>FOTA, then headed by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, survived last year&#8217;s double diffuser row, but in 2009 their harmony was arguably tied together by the bitter political war with the FIA.<\/p>\n<p>But with that war over, Ferrari boss Domenicali was asked if the new scuffles might now threaten FOTA&#8217;s unity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the technical side, I have nothing to say, because the Federation (FIA) must be the arbiter in these situations,&#8221; the Italian is quoted as saying by Tuttosport.<\/p>\n<p>But he added: &#8220;It is part of the sport &#8212; putting pressure on the other teams and what they&#8217;re doing,&#8221; added Domenicali.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s just a part of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano Domenicali insists that a new technical row will not threaten the harmony of the formula one teams&#8217; alliance FOTA. \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":[128,5262,93,5300,5261,5340,118,491,1180,129,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936"}],"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=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}