{"id":5207,"date":"2010-05-09T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2010-05-09T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:27:58","slug":"lotus-vetoes-split-q1-f-ducts-to-be-banned-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-vetoes-split-q1-f-ducts-to-be-banned-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus vetoes split Q1, F-ducts to be banned in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus was one of the slower teams to veto moves to split &#8216;Q1&#8217; qualifying into two at the forthcoming Monaco grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We reported earlier that a team bosses meeting in Barcelona was likely to knock the proposal on the head, after Charlie Whiting said the FIA would only act if all the teams agreed.<\/p>\n<p>FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh had predicted that &#8220;teams from the middle of the grid downwards&#8221; were likely to vote against the split, presumably because it would lock them into the lowest positions.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus team principal Tony Fernandes is quoted as confirming that he voted against the move because &#8220;we want the race to be exciting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is also reported that F1 teams have agreed to ban F-ducts at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus was one of the slower teams to veto moves to split &#8216;Q1&#8217; qualifying into two at the forthcoming Monaco grand prix.<\/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":[1175,5314,810,5262,5300,5261,5340,118,912,491,1534,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207"}],"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=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}