{"id":11856,"date":"2011-04-10T21:14:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2011-04-10T21:14:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T01:14:15","slug":"vettel-extends-lead-with-sepang-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-extends-lead-with-sepang-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel extends lead with Sepang win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel extended his championship lead on Sunday by winning the Malaysian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the heat we stayed cool,&#8221; said the reigning world champion and Red Bull driver, who is now 24 points ahead of McLaren&#8217;s Jenson Button, who finished second on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>German Vettel&#8217;s win was despite apparent reliability problems for the KERS system aboard both RB7 cars.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton faded in the last part of the race and was further slowed with a hit from behind by Fernando Alonso, but with Button within sight of the winner, McLaren is confident for the coming races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will run a new floor in China on Friday,&#8221; revealed team boss Martin Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n<p>Said Button: &#8220;The step we&#8217;ve made from the last race to here is very impressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel extended his championship lead on Sunday by winning the Malaysian grand prix. &#8220;In the heat we stayed cool,&#8221; said the reigning world champion and Red Bull driver, who is now 24 points ahead of McLaren&#8217;s Jenson Button, who finished second on Sunday. German Vettel&#8217;s win was despite apparent reliability problems for the KERS &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,153,1178,98,129,164,5336],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856"}],"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=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11857,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}