Like fellow new team Lotus, Virgin is also not planning to develop a so-called F-duct system in 2010.<\/p>\n
Confirming the news, Lotus’ Heikki Kovalainen said in Barcelona last weekend that he hopes the team soon shifts its full focus to next year’s car.<\/p>\n
F-ducts, the downforce-spoiling innovation pioneered this year by McLaren and subsequently emulated by Ferrari, Sauber and Williams, have been banned for 2011.<\/p>\n
German driver Timo Glock told Auto Motor und Sport on Thursday that it would therefore be “nonsense” if Virgin “invested time” on an F-duct rather than on more fundamental areas.<\/p>\n
And team boss John Booth also said in Monaco that Virgin’s priorities are elsewhere.<\/p>\n
“99 per cent of our effort is on reliability but hopefully from this race forward we can start adding performance to the car,” he said.<\/p>\n
McLaren’s Martin Whitmarsh admitted this week that he is disappointed with FOTA’s decision to ban F-ducts.<\/p>\n
“It’s a low-cost technology.\u00a0 There are lots of reasons why it’s good for the sport,” said the FOTA chairman, whose MP4-25 is the only car fitted with an F-duct for the twisty curves of Monaco.<\/p>\n
Ferrari’s F-duct will be back on the F10 at Istanbul, where it is expected that Red Bull could get the technology running for the first time.<\/p>\n
Whitmarsh said on Thursday: “It’s something that will work better on the long straight than a circuit like this.”<\/p>\n
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