{"id":4230,"date":"2010-04-08T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2010-04-08T06:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:47:41","slug":"fia-says-adjustable-ride-height-systems-not-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-says-adjustable-ride-height-systems-not-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA says adjustable ride-height systems not legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Adjusting the ride-height of a formula one car&#8217;s suspension system during parc ferme is illegal, the FIA has clarified.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The news comes amid continuing suspicion about the dominant Red Bull RB6 single seater, after McLaren accused the energy drinks-owned team of running such a system.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull, however, has vehemently denied the charge, with boss Christian Horner warning that he will protest any team he suspects is altering its cars&#8217; ride-heights after qualifying or before the start of races.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC and Reuters report that a letter has been sent to the teams about the issue by the FIA this week.<\/p>\n<p>It says adjusting ride-height with &#8220;any system, device or procedure&#8221; contravenes up to two regulations.<\/p>\n<p>It had been rumoured that Red Bull had found a way to adjust the ride-height by the permitted drainage of compressed gas, but the FIA letter adds that &#8220;any self-levelling damper system is likely&#8221; to also break the rules.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjusting the ride-height of a formula one car&#8217;s suspension system during parc ferme is illegal, the FIA has clarified.<\/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":[128,5262,5300,5261,5340,671,1245],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230"}],"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=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4231,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}