{"id":11219,"date":"2011-02-23T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2011-02-23T07:06:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:06:30","slug":"villeneuve-doubts-vettel-maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/villeneuve-doubts-vettel-maturity\/","title":{"rendered":"Villeneuve doubts Vettel &#8216;maturity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jacques Villeneuve, one question mark surrounding F1&#8217;s new world champion Sebastian Vettel is his &#8220;psychological maturity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That Vettel is very quick, there is no doubt,&#8221; the 1997 world champion is quoted as saying by Germany&#8217;s T-Online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question has always been his psychological maturity,&#8221; added the French Canadian, who last year questioned the young German&#8217;s reaction to his crash in Turkey with Mark Webber.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel has since won the title, but as for his maturity, &#8220;viewing it from the outside, it&#8217;s impossible to say how this has developed&#8221;, said Villeneuve, 39.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Villeneuve continues to back his former championship nemesis Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the second half of the (2010) season he was really strong,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was criticised severely because he didn&#8217;t just blow Nico (Rosberg) away.\u00a0 But if he is still as hungry to win as he used to be, then he has the makings to be champion again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he is critical of the new adjustable rear wings, designed to increase overtaking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;2010 was one of the best seasons ever,&#8221; said Villeneuve, who won 11 grands prix for Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was lots of overtaking, so I can&#8217;t understand these rule changes,&#8221; he added.\u00a0 &#8220;It might be even easier with the rear wing, but that&#8217;s just artificial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jacques Villeneuve, one question mark surrounding F1&#8217;s new world champion Sebastian Vettel is his &#8220;psychological maturity&#8221;. &#8220;That Vettel is very quick, there is no doubt,&#8221; the 1997 world champion is quoted as saying by Germany&#8217;s T-Online. &#8220;The question has always been his psychological maturity,&#8221; added the French Canadian, who last year questioned the &#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":[5262,5340,61,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219"}],"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=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11220,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions\/11220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}