{"id":4497,"date":"2010-04-16T06:55:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2010-04-16T06:51:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T10:51:33","slug":"few-miles-for-ferraris-f-duct-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/few-miles-for-ferraris-f-duct-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Few miles for Ferrari&#8217;s F-duct in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ferrari&#8217;s new F-duct system did not get many miles under its belt during initial Friday practice in Shanghai.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The McLaren-type device was fitted only to Fernando Alonso&#8217;s F10, and the Spaniard did not even complete a timed flying lap before his engine failed.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari referred to the F-duct on Friday morning as a &#8220;blowing rear wing system&#8221;, and said the one running on Alonso&#8217;s car in China is &#8220;not the complete one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it emerges that Williams did not use its own new F-duct on Friday morning, perhaps because the parts were held up in Europe due to the Icelandic volcano smoke cloud.<\/p>\n<p>It was also rumoured in Shanghai that, while Red Bull continues to deny having any such device aboard the RB6, Ferrari&#8217;s drivers might be altering the ride-height of their cars during the pistops.<\/p>\n<p>This solution, because the change is not occurring during parc ferme conditions or while the car is in motion, would theoretically be legal, and Felipe Massa welcomed the FIA&#8217;s recent rule clarification.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is important that the conditions are the same for everybody,&#8221; said the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari&#8217;s new F-duct system did not get many miles under its belt during initial Friday practice in Shanghai.<\/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":[1275,1270,1221,1370,5262,130,149,93,5261,5340,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497"}],"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=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4498,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}