{"id":4538,"date":"2010-04-17T06:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2010-04-17T06:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:27:28","slug":"now-renault-working-on-f-duct-for-2010-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/now-renault-working-on-f-duct-for-2010-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Renault working on F-duct for 2010 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Renault has changed its mind about not developing an F-duct system for its R30 car.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Team boss Eric Boullier said recently that despite several teams moving to emulate McLaren&#8217;s rear-wing stalling innovation, Renault preferred to concentrate in other areas of development.<\/p>\n<p>But in Shanghai, with two long straights, the F-duct is proving a significant straight-line advantage, and Sauber, Ferrari, Williams and Mercedes have also been running similar systems in China.<\/p>\n<p>Boullier told France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo on Saturday: &#8220;We are actively working on developing our own F-duct.\u00a0 Two people are working on it full time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the parts held up in customs until late on Friday night, Williams only got its new system up-and-running on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>However, after initial runs, it is believed the British team has decided not to use the F-duct in qualifying and the race, with Rubens Barrichello heard on the radio to say it is not working properly.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mercedes&#8217; system apparently worked well in Friday practice, despite many observers not recognising the team&#8217;s unique approach to the F-duct idea on Michael Schumacher&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed both Schumacher and Nico Rosberg are running the F-duct on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We brought some improvements here including the new rear wing which have helped,&#8221; confirmed Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renault has changed its mind about not developing an F-duct system for its R30 car.<\/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":[1275,1270,1221,251,1370,5262,5261,5340,55,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538"}],"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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4539,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}