{"id":5590,"date":"2010-05-20T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2010-05-20T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:26:24","slug":"report-mercedes-working-on-automatic-f-duct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/report-mercedes-working-on-automatic-f-duct\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8211; Mercedes working on &#8216;automatic&#8217; F-duct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is working on an F-duct system that does not need to be controlled by the drivers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Germany&#8217;s Auto Bild Motorsport reports that the German team&#8217;s downforce-stalling solution could be ready to debut on the W01 car in Istanbul in just over a week.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren pioneered the technology this year, where the blockage of an air inlet inside the cockpit with Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button&#8217;s knee allows air to flow through the engine cover and out a slot in the rear wing.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari and Sauber&#8217;s subsequent systems involve the air inlet being blocked by a driver&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, Mercedes has had a passive F-duct solution, where air is diverted at increasingly high speeds through a rear wing slot.<\/p>\n<p>But its full system could be truly innovative and function without needing the drivers&#8217; input, although Norbert Haug said that &#8220;right now it is still in the experimental phase&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our solution is different from the other teams,&#8221; the German confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is working on an F-duct system that does not need to be controlled by the drivers.<\/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":[1175,5262,5261,5340,34,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590"}],"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=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5591,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions\/5591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}