{"id":4404,"date":"2010-04-13T23:35:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T03:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2010-04-13T23:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T03:35:02","slug":"mercedes-to-race-b-car-in-spain-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-to-race-b-car-in-spain-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes to race &#8216;B&#8217; car in Spain &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mercedes will reportedly launch a major upgrade for its 2010 car in the hope of pushing for grand prix wins.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was reported early last week that if the W01 is not winning races by June, the Brackley based team will switch its focus to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have very good developments coming, and I cannot wait,&#8221; said Nico Rosberg, whose teammate is the seven time world champion Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport on Tuesday gave details about the major upgrade, set for debut at Barcelona next month.<\/p>\n<p>Changes as fundamental as a revised wheelbase are reportedly part of the package, which will require the &#8216;B&#8217; car to undergo all new FIA crash tests.<\/p>\n<p>The report also said the weight distribution, rear suspension and the gearbox housing will be changed.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Mercedes would also like to slim the actual chassis instead of extending the wheelbase, but &#8220;the chassis is homologated.\u00a0 We cannot change it,&#8221; team boss Ross Brawn is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher added: &#8220;We will take a big step, but the others move forwards as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes will reportedly launch a major upgrade for its 2010 car in the hope of pushing for grand prix wins.<\/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":[5262,5300,5261,5340,34,92,4,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404"}],"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=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}