{"id":13758,"date":"2011-09-25T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13758"},"modified":"2011-09-25T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:58:32","slug":"vettel-needs-one-more-point-for-2011-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-needs-one-more-point-for-2011-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel needs one more point for 2011 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel needs to score just a single point at Suzuka in two weeks to put the lid on his second title.<\/p>\n<p>The German could have wrapped up the championship under Singapore&#8217;s lights, but despite Vettel&#8217;s victory Jenson Button spoiled the mathematics by finishing second.<\/p>\n<p>Briton Button is now the only driver still technically in the running with five races still to run.<\/p>\n<p>But with Vettel needing just a tenth place in Japan in the event that Button wins, BBC commentator Martin Brundle observed: &#8220;They might as well give him (Vettel) the pot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull boss Christian Horner however suggested it is unlikely the 24-year-old will simply cruise to a mid-pack finish at Suzuka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he keeps going as he has been the championship will take care of itself,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;It has been a great season and we want to end it in style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agreed Vettel: &#8220;It looks like we will have another chance at the next race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel needs to score just a single point at Suzuka in two weeks to put the lid on his second title. The German could have wrapped up the championship under Singapore&#8217;s lights, but despite Vettel&#8217;s victory Jenson Button spoiled the mathematics by finishing second. Briton Button is now the only driver still technically in &#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":[128,5262,5340,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758"}],"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=13758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13764,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions\/13764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}