{"id":6144,"date":"2010-06-08T06:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T10:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2010-06-08T06:45:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T10:45:19","slug":"mercedes-still-working-to-improve-f-duct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-still-working-to-improve-f-duct\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes still working to improve F-duct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top teams including Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes are struggling to implement the &#8216;F-duct&#8217; concept in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren pioneered the initially controversial technology with its current car the MP4-25, where the driver triggers an airflow through the rear wing that boosts top speeds on the straights.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber, Williams and Force India have emulated the system, but at top teams Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes, the implementation has been troubled.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso blames the aero engineers&#8217; focus on the technology as a reason for Ferrari falling behind in 2010, while Red Bull tested an F-duct in Turkey but will work on the system at its UK base while the race team is in Canada this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still need to work on our F-duct,&#8221; Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn said in an interview with Italy&#8217;s Autosprint magazine.\u00a0 &#8220;It is difficult to make it work well with the (rear) wing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, given the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve&#8217;s long straights, teams with the leading Mercedes engine should be looking forward to Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (track) is all about top speed so we have worked very hard on this, especially as we know that we are not right at the top in that area,&#8221; admitted Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top teams including Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes are struggling to implement the &#8216;F-duct&#8217; concept in 2010. McLaren pioneered the initially controversial technology with its current car the MP4-25, where the driver triggers an airflow through the rear wing that boosts top speeds on the straights. Sauber, Williams and Force India have emulated the system, &#8230;<\/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":[1175,1298,5262,5340,34,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144"}],"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=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6145,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions\/6145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}