{"id":4460,"date":"2010-04-15T18:48:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:48:13","slug":"vettel-hopes-red-bull-to-use-f-duct-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-hopes-red-bull-to-use-f-duct-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel hopes Red Bull to use &#8216;F-duct&#8217; soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Almost half of the field is expected to be running an &#8216;F-duct&#8217; in Friday practice in China, but current pacesetters Red Bull will not be among them.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alongside innovators McLaren, it emerged on Thursday that Sauber, Williams, Mercedes and Ferrari will be using similar driver-activated air inlet systems, to stall the downforce onto the rear wing, in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>With its Mercedes engine already more powerful than the Renault, the device is giving McLaren a substantial straight line advantage over Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Designer Adrian Newey has admitted to working on an F-duct for the RB6, and German Vettel said on Thursday that he hopes it is ready soon.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether it will be on the car in Barcelona, he answered: &#8220;I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China is the last flyaway race for a while, with a number of grands prix in Europe to follow.\u00a0 Hopefully we&#8217;ll have it (the F-duct).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no fixed date.\u00a0 Like all the others, we&#8217;re working on it,&#8221; Vettel revealed.<\/p>\n<p>He said the system can deliver up to half a second per lap, which is a potential development that no capable team can ignore.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;it&#8217;s not easy (to integrate quickly), because McLaren worked on it in the development stage for a long time,&#8221; said Vettel.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of the field is expected to be running an &#8216;F-duct&#8217; in Friday practice in China, but current pacesetters Red Bull will not be among them.<\/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":[1175,396,1275,1270,1221,5262,93,5300,5261,5340,8,129,114,164,1239,5368,1193,155],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460"}],"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=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}