{"id":4326,"date":"2010-04-12T06:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:35:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:35:52","slug":"ride-height-saga-shows-red-bull-feared-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ride-height-saga-shows-red-bull-feared-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride height saga shows Red Bull &#8216;feared&#8217; &#8211; Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The FIA&#8217;s rule clarification about adjustable ride-height mechanisms has no impact on Red Bull, boss Christian Horner and designer Adrian Newey insist.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following speculation that the ride-height of the RB6 car is somehow being altered between qualifying and the race, the governing body said last week that such a system would theoretically be a breach of the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>But Horner says the FIA is &#8220;completely happy&#8221; with the car after detailed inspections, adding that it will be transported to China in an identical mechanical specification to the one raced to first and second places in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>And Newey told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport: &#8220;We have neither an illegal, automatic system, nor a legal one like Ferrari&#8217;s which allows an adjustment at the pitstops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, it also emerges that while Horner said recently he would welcome an FIA rule-tweak to legalise a ride-height change between qualifying and the race, Red Bull actually voted against the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Motor und Sport said a second team also vetoed the rule change.<\/p>\n<p>But the reason for Red Bull&#8217;s veto reportedly has nothing to do with a secret system aboard the RB6, but instead the fact that its design is more efficient than its rivals with both high and low ride-heights.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s German driver Sebastian Vettel told Sport Bild magazine: &#8220;It is always the case in formula one that the fastest cars are observed closely by the competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is always speculation and it&#8217;s actually a compliment, because it shows that we are feared,&#8221; the 22-year-old added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA&#8217;s rule clarification about adjustable ride-height mechanisms has no impact on Red Bull, boss Christian Horner and designer Adrian Newey insist.<\/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":[396,128,5262,5300,5261,5340,1245,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326"}],"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=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}