{"id":12172,"date":"2011-05-06T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2011-05-06T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:32:08","slug":"ferrari-slams-f1-rubbish-in-english-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-slams-f1-rubbish-in-english-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari slams F1 &#8216;rubbish&#8217; in English press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari has hit back at what it calls &#8220;rubbish&#8221; speculation from within the English-speaking media.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian team regularly uses an anonymous and acid-tongued website columnist called the Horse Whisperer to hit out, and on Thursday it aimed fire at claims about the money paid to Ferrari&#8217;s drivers, and the team&#8217;s overall budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Spaniard (Fernando Alonso) is reckoned to touch 26 million euros which is obviously pure fantasy,&#8221; the columnist wrote.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;the visionaries from across the Channel, always ready to point the finger at Maranello as the biggest spenders, would do well to look closer to home&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari then aimed fire at rumours the team could be looking to replace its Brazilian driver Felipe Massa with Mark Webber, Jenson Button or Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Needless to say, it is just rubbish, the sort that gives you really bad allergies,&#8221; the column reads.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari has hit back at what it calls &#8220;rubbish&#8221; speculation from within the English-speaking media. The Italian team regularly uses an anonymous and acid-tongued website columnist called the Horse Whisperer to hit out, and on Thursday it aimed fire at claims about the money paid to Ferrari&#8217;s drivers, and the team&#8217;s overall budget. &#8220;The Spaniard &#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":[5262,149,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172"}],"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=12172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12173,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions\/12173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}