{"id":5182,"date":"2010-05-08T20:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:44:16","slug":"alonso-denies-no-hands-f-duct-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-denies-no-hands-f-duct-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso denies &#8216;no hands&#8217; F-duct claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso on Saturday denied he has been driving around the Circuit de Catalunya with no hands.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ferrari technical boss Aldo Costa played down suggestions the team&#8217;s F-duct solution is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike McLaren&#8217;s system which is believed to be activated by the drivers&#8217; knees, it became clear in Barcelona that Alonso and his teammate Felipe Massa are triggering the airflow on the straights with their left hand.<\/p>\n<p>Often at the same time, the drivers are then using their right hand to make adjustments to the brake balance.<\/p>\n<p>But Alonso insisted after qualifying: &#8220;I always have my hands on the steering wheel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, onboard video shows that the Spaniard has a black pad sewn onto the knuckles of his left glove that allows Alonso to block the airflow while keeping his thumb in place on the steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no problem,&#8221; he told Germany&#8217;s Motorsport-Magazin.com.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso on Saturday denied he has been driving around the Circuit de Catalunya with no hands.<\/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":[1175,549,5314,5326,5262,149,93,5261,5340,1384],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182"}],"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=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5183,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions\/5183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}