{"id":4402,"date":"2010-04-13T23:32:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T03:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2010-04-13T23:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T03:32:55","slug":"mclaren-stop-designing-adjustable-ride-height-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-stop-designing-adjustable-ride-height-system\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren stop designing adjustable ride-height system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">McLaren on Tuesday confirmed it will not introduce an adjustable ride-height system in China this weekend.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After admitting in Melbourne he suspected other teams including Red Bull of running such a system, the British team&#8217;s boss Martin Whitmarsh said McLaren designers were working on a similar system to debut in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>But in addressing the speculation, the FIA clarified that adjusting the ride-height of a car between qualifying and the race is not allowed in any form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically, we had a system we were working on, and we&#8217;ve now suspended that,&#8221; engineering director Paddy Lowe told reporters during a teleconference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He also clarified that the ruling has not affected the existing mechanical specification of the MP4-25.\u00a0 Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner has also said the RB6 is unchanged between Malaysia and China.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe admitted that he does not really know whether other cars will have to be altered as a result of the FIA clarification.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got the feeling that others were further advanced in development.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t got a clue as to whether anyone else has a system on their cars though,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren on Tuesday confirmed it will not introduce an adjustable ride-height system in China this weekend.<\/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":[5262,5300,5261,5340,5284,551,1163],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402"}],"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=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}