{"id":12431,"date":"2011-05-22T10:58:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2011-05-22T22:24:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T02:24:22","slug":"vettel-extends-title-lead-despite-pressure-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-extends-title-lead-despite-pressure-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel extends title lead despite pressure in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel extended his runaway championship lead on Sunday despite intense pressure from Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The German, who finished less than a second ahead of McLaren&#8217;t Hamilton at the flag in Barcelona, ended the race 41 points ahead after just 5 races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McLaren were very strong, Lewis in particular,&#8221; said the Red Bull driver, after Hamilton&#8217;s late-race challenge in the surprisingly fast MP4-26.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;DRS&#8217; system was less effective this weekend than at previous events, but the 66-lap race was still exciting, particularly after Ferrari&#8217;s Fernando Alonso led at the start to the delight of his home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(P1) isn&#8217;t our position at the moment.\u00a0 There are clearly two teams ahead of everybody and at the moment we need to change the situation,&#8221; said Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, pole sitter Mark Webber (4th), Hamilton and Jenson Button (3rd) are under investigation by the stewards for failing to slow for yellow flags during the race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s see what they say,&#8221; Button said on British television BBC1.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel extended his runaway championship lead on Sunday despite intense pressure from Lewis Hamilton. The German, who finished less than a second ahead of McLaren&#8217;t Hamilton at the flag in Barcelona, ended the race 41 points ahead after just 5 races. &#8220;McLaren were very strong, Lewis in particular,&#8221; said the Red Bull driver, after &#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":[5262,5340,129,164,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431"}],"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=12431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12438,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions\/12438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}