{"id":4922,"date":"2010-05-03T06:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2010-05-03T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:51:10","slug":"full-mercedes-f-duct-not-ready-for-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/full-mercedes-f-duct-not-ready-for-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Mercedes F-duct not ready for Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes&#8217; full F-duct solution is not ready to debut in Barcelona this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Brackley based team used an initial iteration of the blown rear wing concept in Shanghai two weeks ago, but unlike McLaren&#8217;s pioneering version it was not operated by the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, air was &#8216;flicked&#8217; at increasingly higher speed through a slot in the rear wing.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Ross Brawn said Mercedes was &#8220;working on the proper system&#8221; at the same time and hoping it will be ready for the Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Germany&#8217;s Bild am Sonntag newspaper, the final solution is not ready for round five of the 2010 world championship.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes will now aim to have the full F-duct up and running in Turkey, with Brawn admitting &#8220;there&#8217;s no point in having it&#8221; on the twisty streets of Monaco in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes&#8217; full F-duct solution is not ready to debut in Barcelona this weekend.<\/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":[1175,5262,5261,5340,34,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922"}],"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=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4927,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}