{"id":11949,"date":"2011-04-17T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11949"},"modified":"2011-04-17T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:17:18","slug":"alonso-not-cheating-with-drs-system-coulthard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-not-cheating-with-drs-system-coulthard\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso not cheating with &#8216;DRS&#8217; system &#8211; Coulthard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso escaped penalty on Sunday despite using the &#8216;DRS&#8217; system outside the designated zone in the Chinese grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Replay footage has emerged showing the Ferrari&#8217;s rear wing flap deploying as he pursued Michael Schumacher in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>David Coulthard, veteran driver and now commentator for British television, said the Spaniard was not deliberately cheating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fail to see what he would have done from the cockpit,&#8221; the Scot said on the BBC late on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows the wing is not available at that point so it&#8217;s pointless pulling the paddle, and we know they&#8217;ve had difficulties with that system in the past, so I wonder it that&#8217;s just a mechanical or software issue,&#8221; added Coulthard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no way Ferrari can circumnavigate the regulations so that&#8217;s clearly teething trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso escaped penalty on Sunday despite using the &#8216;DRS&#8217; system outside the designated zone in the Chinese grand prix. Replay footage has emerged showing the Ferrari&#8217;s rear wing flap deploying as he pursued Michael Schumacher in Shanghai. David Coulthard, veteran driver and now commentator for British television, said the Spaniard was not deliberately cheating. &#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":[1221,410,3001,5262,149,93,5340,92,1239],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949"}],"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=11949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11950,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions\/11950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}