{"id":720,"date":"2010-05-15T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T12:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2010-05-15T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T12:14:22","slug":"f1-car-setup-for-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/15\/f1-car-setup-for-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Car Setup for Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/47844335_alonso_getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"_47844335_alonso_getty\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/47844335_alonso_getty_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"_47844335_alonso_getty\" width=\"450\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend, one of my favourite F1 races of the season.\u00a0 Ok the races often aren\u2019t the best but the track is unique and the overall event something worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the short, tight track poses some interesting challenges for the teams.\u00a0 The layout is very different from purpose build circuit, with the corners, bump and armco barriers all meaning that in terms of setup the cars are quite different from any other time in the season.\u00a0 With no real straights to speak of, aerodynamic efficiency is far less important than outright mechanical grip.<\/p>\n<p>If (like me) you\u2019re a car geek and you find that sort of stuff interesting, <a title=\"ScarbsF1\" href=\"http:\/\/scarbsf1.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">ScarbsF1<\/a> posted up an interesting article on the differences that Monaco brings.\u00a0 It\u2019s worth a read:\u00a0 <a title=\"Monaco Set up- the misconception of wheelbase\" href=\"http:\/\/scarbsf1.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/14\/monaco-set-up-the-misconption-of-wheelbase\/\">Monaco Set up- the misconception of wheelbase<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monaco Grand Prix poses interesting car setup challenges for F1 teams, aerodynamics being far less important than mechanical grip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[256,68,257,387,386],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","tag-aerodynamics","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-monaco","tag-setup","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}