{"id":4177,"date":"2010-04-05T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2010-04-05T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:16:29","slug":"ferrari-to-race-f-duct-as-soon-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-to-race-f-duct-as-soon-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari to race F-duct &#8216;as soon as possible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Back at Maranello, Ferrari is hard at work to emulate the success of McLaren&#8217;s so-called &#8216;F-duct&#8217; downforce-spoiling innovation.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the British team&#8217;s 2010 car, the once-controversial solution &#8211; with the drivers controlling a flow of air through to the rear wing with their left knee &#8211; passed scrutineering at the Bahrain season opener.<\/p>\n<p>At the next race in Melbourne, Sauber&#8217;s similar system made its first appearance, amid reports that Red Bull, Force India, Williams and Mercedes were also working on F-ducts at their respective factories.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali said after Sunday&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix that Ferrari is also working on a version for the F10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen that the advantage (of the system) is very, very big,&#8221; said the Italian, referring to the straightline speed advantage enjoyed by McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will bring it to the races as soon as possible, once we are sure that it is 100 per cent,&#8221; added Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at Maranello, Ferrari is hard at work to emulate the success of McLaren&#8217;s so-called &#8216;F-duct&#8217; downforce-spoiling innovation.<\/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":[1175,5262,93,5261,5340,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177"}],"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=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}