{"id":11904,"date":"2011-04-14T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11904"},"modified":"2011-04-14T06:47:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:47:59","slug":"chinese-official-calls-vettel-fernando-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chinese-official-calls-vettel-fernando-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese official calls Vettel &#8216;Fernando Alonso&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an amusing case of mistaken identity for world champion and 2011 series leader Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>As flight MH388 touched down in Shanghai from Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, a plethora of F1 faces waited for officials to welcome them to China.<\/p>\n<p>One customs official spotted blonde-haired German Vettel and, according to Bild newspaper, exclaimed: &#8220;Fernando!\u00a0 Fernando Alonso!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His Red Bull teammate Mark Webber, waiting in line behind Vettel, told the 23-year-old: &#8220;Go on Fernando, it&#8217;s your turn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vettel can achieve a rare hat-trick of F1 wins this Sunday, and &#8211; dating back to late 2010 &#8211; victory in China would make him a five-time consecutive race winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not counting,&#8221; he insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;I take it as it comes.\u00a0 But, clearly, to defend my title I have to win as much as I can.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the goal, and the sooner the better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an amusing case of mistaken identity for world champion and 2011 series leader Sebastian Vettel. As flight MH388 touched down in Shanghai from Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, a plethora of F1 faces waited for officials to welcome them to China. One customs official spotted blonde-haired German Vettel and, according to Bild newspaper, exclaimed: &#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":[5262,149,5340,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904"}],"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=11904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11905,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904\/revisions\/11905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}