{"id":4798,"date":"2010-04-27T06:45:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2010-04-27T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:37:52","slug":"mclaren-critical-of-fias-ride-height-saga-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-critical-of-fias-ride-height-saga-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren critical of FIA&#8217;s ride-height saga handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">McLaren has reportedly &#8220;gently criticised&#8221; the FIA over the governing body&#8217;s handling of the Red Bull ride-height affair.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When the Mercedes powered team earlier suspected Red Bull of using a controversial ride-height adjustment system on its RB6 car, McLaren rushed to design its own for the MP4-25.<\/p>\n<p>But while Christian Horner vehemently denied that Red Bull was running any such system, the FIA finally clarified that it would not be legal even in theory.<\/p>\n<p>A report in the Daily Telegraph said McLaren is quietly critical of the FIA&#8217;s handling of the affair because the lateness of the ruling wasted the team&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would have been nice if we had had a clear no at the outset but we didn&#8217;t,&#8221; boss Martin Whitmarsh is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren has reportedly &#8220;gently criticised&#8221; the FIA over the governing body&#8217;s handling of the Red Bull ride-height affair.<\/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":[5262,5300,5261,5340,491,5284,129,1245],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798"}],"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=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}