{"id":6472,"date":"2010-06-22T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T11:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2010-06-22T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T11:02:31","slug":"williams-to-test-improved-f-duct-at-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-to-test-improved-f-duct-at-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams to test improved F-duct at Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams will try a developed version of its F-duct system at the Valencia street circuit this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The British team&#8217;s interpretation of the McLaren-like concept first appeared in China, but technical boss Sam Michael said then that he expected it to take &#8220;a couple of months&#8221; to perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Very little about Williams&#8217; F-duct &#8211; called the &#8216;blown rear wing&#8217; by the Grove based team &#8211; has been heard since.<\/p>\n<p>But on Monday, the team announced that the innovation will feature on the FW32 alongside some other new parts at the European grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, however, referred in the media statement to its Valencia-spec F-duct as &#8220;the development blown rear wing&#8221;, indicating that the component may not be fitted for qualifying or the grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have more new parts for this race but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see what improvements they bring to the car,&#8221; said driver Nico Hulkenberg, whose teammate Rubens Barrichello won at Valencia in 2009 at the wheel of a Brawn.<\/p>\n<p>Hulkenberg added: &#8220;We are inching a bit closer to the top ten, as we showed in qualifying in Montreal, but we have to continue pushing and gain more tenths to get into the top ten consistently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams will try a developed version of its F-duct system at the Valencia street circuit this weekend. The British team&#8217;s interpretation of the McLaren-like concept first appeared in China, but technical boss Sam Michael said then that he expected it to take &#8220;a couple of months&#8221; to perfect. Very little about Williams&#8217; F-duct &#8211; called &#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":[1175,5262,5340,5308,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472"}],"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=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6473,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions\/6473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}