{"id":13270,"date":"2011-07-30T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2011-07-30T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T15:24:09","slug":"red-bull-joker-puts-vettel-on-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-joker-puts-vettel-on-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull &#8216;joker&#8217; puts Vettel on pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull&#8217;s &#8220;joker&#8221; put Sebastian Vettel right back on track at the Hungaroring.<\/p>\n<p>Each team can break the mechanics&#8217; late-night paddock curfew four times before a penalty applies, and Red Bull used one of theirs overnight to apply major setup changes to the RB7 after a difficult Friday in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed to work perfectly on Saturday as championship leader Vettel returned to pole, although teammate Mark Webber was just sixth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No way I could do that (Vettel&#8217;s) lap time,&#8221; the Australian told the BBC.\u00a0 &#8220;Strange one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nurburgring winner Lewis Hamilton was also wondering how his McLaren had dropped behind the pace of the leading Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today they (Red Bull) seemed to pick up a little pace, but for me and Jenson (Button) to be in the first two rows is a good job,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>German Vettel meanwhile hailed the long night endured by his mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems we have done the right thing and I am a lot more comfortable (now),&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;The boys worked pretty hard and didn&#8217;t get much sleep but a result like this today is the best way to say thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull&#8217;s &#8220;joker&#8221; put Sebastian Vettel right back on track at the Hungaroring. Each team can break the mechanics&#8217; late-night paddock curfew four times before a penalty applies, and Red Bull used one of theirs overnight to apply major setup changes to the RB7 after a difficult Friday in Budapest. It seemed to work perfectly &#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":[5262,5340,2025,5394,153,154,5284,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270"}],"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=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13271,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions\/13271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}