{"id":6567,"date":"2010-06-25T18:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T22:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2010-06-25T18:28:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T22:28:06","slug":"mclaren-to-struggle-to-beat-blown-diffuser-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-to-struggle-to-beat-blown-diffuser-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren to struggle to beat &#8216;blown diffuser&#8217; teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton on Friday admitted McLaren might struggle to keep up with rapidly-progressing rivals this weekend in Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>While the British team will only run the innovation in two weeks at Silverstone, Ferrari, Mercedes and Renault have got Red Bull-style &#8216;blown diffuser&#8217; exhaust layouts up and running on the streets of the Spanish port city.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is the championship leader and has won the past two races, but on Friday afternoon was just fifth fastest, behind and surrounded by the &#8216;blown diffuser&#8217; teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was always going to be interesting to see how quickly the blown diffuser cars could get up to speed &#8212; and they looked very competitive this afternoon, particularly over a single lap,&#8221; said the 2008 world champion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the grip they appear to have through the high speed stuff could make them difficult for us to touch,&#8221; added Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>His teammate Jenson Button, just ninth quickest in the final session, commented: &#8220;We&#8217;ve just got to fight it out here and get the best out of what we&#8217;ve got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton on Friday admitted McLaren might struggle to keep up with rapidly-progressing rivals this weekend in Valencia. While the British team will only run the innovation in two weeks at Silverstone, Ferrari, Mercedes and Renault have got Red Bull-style &#8216;blown diffuser&#8217; exhaust layouts up and running on the streets of the Spanish port city. &#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":[5262,5340,154,5284,5308],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567"}],"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=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6568,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}