{"id":12496,"date":"2011-05-25T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2011-05-25T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:30:54","slug":"schumacher-denies-blocking-hamilton-to-help-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-denies-blocking-hamilton-to-help-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher denies blocking Hamilton to help Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has denied blocking Lewis Hamilton in Spain last weekend to help his friend, countryman and championship leader Sebastian Vettel win the Barcelona race.<\/p>\n<p>British media said McLaren&#8217;s Hamilton alleged the seven time world champion blocked him after letting Vettel, his regular teammate for the end-of-season Race of Champions event, easily pass while being lapped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t speak to him (Schumacher) about it,&#8221; said Hamilton.\u00a0 &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to waste my time or my breath.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Responded Schumacher: &#8220;That certainly must have been a misunderstanding.\u00a0 I try to get out of the way for anybody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s true that Sebastian and I are friends,&#8221; he told the German news agency SID, &#8220;but on the track, I&#8217;m not for or against anybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agreed a McLaren spokesman: &#8220;There is no conspiracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has denied blocking Lewis Hamilton in Spain last weekend to help his friend, countryman and championship leader Sebastian Vettel win the Barcelona race. British media said McLaren&#8217;s Hamilton alleged the seven time world champion blocked him after letting Vettel, his regular teammate for the end-of-season Race of Champions event, easily pass while being &#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":[5262,5340,154,34,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496"}],"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=12496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12497,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions\/12497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}