{"id":4690,"date":"2010-04-21T06:56:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2010-04-21T06:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:54:39","slug":"toro-rosso-not-working-on-f-duct-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/toro-rosso-not-working-on-f-duct-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Toro Rosso not working on F-duct system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Toro Rosso has vowed to buck the current trend in formula one by not working on a F-duct device.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the exception of the sport&#8217;s three new teams, it is believed the Ferrari-powered STR5 will therefore soon be the only car on the 2010 grid not exploiting the downforce-spoiling concept pioneered by McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Technical boss Giorgio Ascanelli said Toro Rosso&#8217;s decision is based on financial considerations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I have ten euros and am hungry, I would buy two sandwiches instead of three grams of caviar,&#8221; he is quoted as having told the Italian magazine Autosprint.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Sauber, Ferrari, Mercedes and Williams have tested F-duct-like devices on their 2010 cars, with varying levels of success.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; Ross Brawn said in China that those teams who are hoping to match McLaren&#8217;s straight-line advantage are now &#8220;learning just how complex&#8221; the integration of an F-duct is.<\/p>\n<p>Ascanelli added: &#8220;You might see some benefit after five months of development, but in that time we can improve and develop other parts of the car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Red Bull, Red Bull and Force India will be the next teams to run F-ducts on their cars at forthcoming grands prix.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Rosso has vowed to buck the current trend in formula one by not working on a F-duct device.<\/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":[1370,5262,5261,5340,571,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690"}],"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=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}