{"id":10400,"date":"2011-01-10T06:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10400"},"modified":"2011-01-10T06:58:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:58:53","slug":"vettel-stupid-to-make-ferrari-switch-now-marko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-stupid-to-make-ferrari-switch-now-marko\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel &#8216;stupid&#8217; to make Ferrari switch now &#8211; Marko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel would be &#8220;stupid&#8221; to switch to Ferrari if he knows Red Bull can supply a quicker car.<\/p>\n<p>That is the view of Helmut Marko, the energy drink company Red Bull&#8217;s motor racing right-hand man for team owner Dietrich Mateschitz.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian Marko, 67, is known to be close to fellow German speaker and new world champion Vettel, but the 23-year-old has recently been musing about a future switch to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only natural for a race driver to dream of Ferrari, and for Ferrari to want a great driver like Sebastian,&#8221; he told Bild newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>But Marko is not worried that Vettel will make the switch any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sebastian won&#8217;t leave us just because of the Ferrari legend,&#8221; he insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;He is smart enough to know that the time would have to be right for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He would have to be stupid to go there with Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are the world championship team, and as long as we offer Sebastian a package that is better than the others, he&#8217;s not going to leave just because of a mythical history,&#8221; added Marko.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel would be &#8220;stupid&#8221; to switch to Ferrari if he knows Red Bull can supply a quicker car. That is the view of Helmut Marko, the energy drink company Red Bull&#8217;s motor racing right-hand man for team owner Dietrich Mateschitz. Austrian Marko, 67, is known to be close to fellow German speaker and new &#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":[262,5262,93,5340,641,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400"}],"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=10400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10401,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions\/10401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}