{"id":12732,"date":"2011-06-12T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12732"},"modified":"2011-06-12T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T13:59:28","slug":"germans-upset-by-f1-flag-gaffe-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/germans-upset-by-f1-flag-gaffe-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans upset by F1 flag gaffe in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some figures among F1&#8217;s large German contingent are reportedly unhappy about a gaffe by organisers of the Canadian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>The current world champion and championship leader is German, as are several other drivers, and there is a German team, race and engine supplier in F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the German flag is apparently unknown in Montreal,&#8221; read a report by the German sports news agency SID.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the supposedly German flags above the pit garages, and also on banners on the way into the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, are in fact Belgian.<\/p>\n<p>The German and Belgian flags are both black, red and yellow tricolour, but the Belgian colours are arranged vertically rather than horizontally and in a different order.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some figures among F1&#8217;s large German contingent are reportedly unhappy about a gaffe by organisers of the Canadian grand prix. The current world champion and championship leader is German, as are several other drivers, and there is a German team, race and engine supplier in F1. &#8220;But the German flag is apparently unknown in Montreal,&#8221; &#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":[1317,1298,5262,5340,1300],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732"}],"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=12732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12733,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions\/12733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}