{"id":5050,"date":"2010-05-06T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T15:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2010-05-06T11:39:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T15:39:52","slug":"no-airbox-on-mercedes-revised-2010-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-airbox-on-mercedes-revised-2010-car\/","title":{"rendered":"No airbox on Mercedes&#8217; revised 2010 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the innovations on the Mercedes car for the Spanish grand prix is the abolishment of the traditional &#8216;airbox&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The airbox &#8211; an inlet for the normally-aspirated engines &#8211; has traditionally been part of the roll-hoop structure immediately behind and above the drivers&#8217; head.<\/p>\n<p>But the rollover structure of the revised W01 is now sharp as a knife, with air to now be fed to the 2.4 litre V8 engine via two symmetrical inlets on either side of the engine cover.<\/p>\n<p>Also spotted in the Barcelona pitlane on Thursday was Christian Klien, having his moulded seat and settings fitted to the HRT car usually belonging to Karun Chandhok.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s newly-appointed third driver will hand the F110 car back to Indian Chandhok ahead of Friday&#8217;s afternoon practice session.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the paddock, Virgin&#8217;s new double-storey motor home won the race as the most impressive of F1&#8217;s three new teams.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber has taken over BMW&#8217;s imposing paddock structure of 2009, while Red Bull&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel walked behind the Circuit de Catalunya pits sporting a new haircut.<\/p>\n<p>Also spotted on Thursday was Joan Villadelprat, who is hoping his Spanish Le Mans outfit Epsilon Euskadi will be given a green light to race in formula one next year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the innovations on the Mercedes car for the Spanish grand prix is the abolishment of the traditional &#8216;airbox&#8217;.<\/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":[1532,5326,1093,5262,5261,5340,1094,34,92,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050"}],"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=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}