{"id":4641,"date":"2010-04-19T06:49:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T10:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2010-04-19T06:49:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T10:49:32","slug":"red-bull-eyes-spain-debut-for-f-duct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-eyes-spain-debut-for-f-duct\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull eyes Spain debut for F-duct"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Red Bull could be the next team with an &#8216;F-duct&#8217; type system running on its 2010 car.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After McLaren pioneered the initially controversial innovation, Sauber, Ferrari, Williams and Mercedes have subsequently been tinkering with their own systems at recent races, with varying success.<\/p>\n<p>It was rumoured in Shanghai that Red Bull, Renault and Force India are now close to having F-duct systems ready to add to their respective cars.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner said the RB6 could be equipped with a downforce-spoiling system in Barcelona, &#8220;providing we make it back to Europe&#8221; amid the volcanic-ash air travel disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it also emerges that the system running on Mercedes&#8217; W01 car in China might be referred to as an &#8216;F-duct light&#8217;, given that a more extreme version could debut in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai version did not channel air through the engine cover, but rather from underneath the car, with the flow then flicked aerodynamically into a slot in the rear wing.<\/p>\n<p>A system with a cockpit inlet adjustable by the driver was not seen in China but it could be ready for Turkey late next month, said team boss Ross Brawn.<\/p>\n<p>He told Auto Motor und Sport that the China version brought about a tenth per lap, and that the full-blown system will be worth several tenths.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso also suggested that Ferrari&#8217;s &#8220;full version&#8221; will only be ready for a grand prix &#8220;later&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull could be the next team with an &#8216;F-duct&#8217; type system running on its 2010 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":[1175,128,5262,5261,5340,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641"}],"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=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}