{"id":12014,"date":"2011-04-22T07:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2011-04-22T07:32:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:32:48","slug":"vettels-victory-finger-annoying-verstappen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettels-victory-finger-annoying-verstappen\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel&#8217;s victory-finger &#8216;annoying&#8217; &#8211; Verstappen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s victory routine is annoying and arrogant, according to former grand prix driver Jos Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>When the German started winning poles and races, observers noticed that he always showed a solitary index finger to spectators and cameras.<\/p>\n<p>His countrymen in the German sports media enjoy the routine and before his so-far successful campaign kicked off, one newspaper headline pleaded for Vettel to &#8220;show us your victory finger!&#8221; in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Dutchman Verstappen admitted he has been impressed with championship leader Vettel and Red Bull&#8217;s performances so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have made an incredibly strong impression,&#8221; he wrote in his De Telegraaf column.\u00a0 &#8220;Even with their KERS problems they have the best car overall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sebastian Vettel is definitely the favourite for the title.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t begrudge his success, but I find it really annoying that he arrogantly waves his finger after each triumph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do have to say honestly though that if I had been in his position in my own formula one career, I might have done the same,&#8221; Verstappen, who secured two podiums from his more than 100 grands prix, added cheekily.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s victory routine is annoying and arrogant, according to former grand prix driver Jos Verstappen. When the German started winning poles and races, observers noticed that he always showed a solitary index finger to spectators and cameras. His countrymen in the German sports media enjoy the routine and before his so-far successful campaign kicked &#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":[5262,5340,1410,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014"}],"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=12014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12015,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}