{"id":13937,"date":"2011-10-15T20:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13937"},"modified":"2011-10-15T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T00:51:06","slug":"hamilton-gloomy-despite-breaking-red-bulls-grip-on-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-gloomy-despite-breaking-red-bulls-grip-on-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton gloomy despite breaking Red Bull&#8217;s grip on pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A notably downbeat Lewis Hamilton on Saturday broke Red Bull&#8217;s grip on pole position in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure this will cheer Lewis up,&#8221; his boss Martin Whitmarsh told BBC1 television.<\/p>\n<p>But the 2008 world champion was not celebrating his rare defeat of F1&#8217;s new double title winner Sebastian Vettel, even causing the official press conference moderator to ask him: &#8220;Are you ok?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes earlier, Hamilton had refused to respond to his engineer after being told of his pole, and in parc ferme climbed from his McLaren without a cheer, brushing a cameraman with his shoulder as he trudged past.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old is unquestionably struggling amid his dip of form in 2011, but his teammate Jenson Button noted after qualifying: &#8220;Lewis has been pretty great all weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he suspects Red Bull are playing the long game, with Vettel securing a front row position whilst conserving &#8220;all our prime (soft) tyres&#8221; for a race expected to witness extreme degradation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we are in a good position.\u00a0 Tyre wear will be crucial,&#8221; said the German, who told his engineer he is looking forward to the &#8220;better tyres&#8221; on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notably downbeat Lewis Hamilton on Saturday broke Red Bull&#8217;s grip on pole position in 2011. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure this will cheer Lewis up,&#8221; his boss Martin Whitmarsh told BBC1 television. But the 2008 world champion was not celebrating his rare defeat of F1&#8217;s new double title winner Sebastian Vettel, even causing the official press conference &#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":[5262,5340,154,491],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937"}],"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=13937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13938,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions\/13938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}