{"id":5238,"date":"2010-05-10T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2010-05-10T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:26:55","slug":"teams-vote-for-f-duct-ban-on-grounds-of-safety-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/teams-vote-for-f-duct-ban-on-grounds-of-safety-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams vote for F-duct ban on grounds of safety, cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A written plea by McLaren did not convince the British team&#8217;s rivals that controversial &#8216;F-duct&#8217; innovations should be allowed to stay in F1 in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During a team meeting last weekend in Barcelona, a majority of the bosses voted for a rule tweak that will outlaw the controversial downforce-stalling solutions for next year.<\/p>\n<p>After McLaren invented the straightline speed boosting concept this season, teams including Sauber, Ferrari, Williams and Mercedes have experimented with their own versions.<\/p>\n<p>It is also believed that Red Bull, Renault and Force India are working on the concept at their respective factories.<\/p>\n<p>But Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner indicated that the vote against F-ducts for 2011 was influenced by the marginal safety of the systems seen in Spain last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Sauber and Ferrari drivers were activating the airflow with one of their hands, often out of high speed corners like Barcelona&#8217;s turn 3, while simultaneously fidgeting with other controls including brake balance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a clever piece of engineering and hats off to the guys who invented it, but some of the solutions this weekend look a little bit marginal when you see drivers driving with no hands basically,&#8221; Horner is quoted as saying by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I think there is a safety issue and a cost issue to take into account,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A written plea by McLaren did not convince the British team&#8217;s rivals that controversial &#8216;F-duct&#8217; innovations should be allowed to stay in F1 in 2011.<\/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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238"}],"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=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}