{"id":13986,"date":"2011-10-20T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T10:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2011-10-20T06:56:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T10:56:28","slug":"vettel-could-give-up-win-to-help-webber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-could-give-up-win-to-help-webber\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel could give up win to help Webber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has hinted he might be willing to give up a race victory to help his team perform a perfect score in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull and the 24-year-old German have already secured the constructors&#8217; and drivers&#8217; world championships, but Mark Webber currently lies in only fourth place behind Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button with three races left to run.<\/p>\n<p>Webber has failed to win a single race in 2011 compared with Vettel&#8217;s ten so far, so the Australian might need some help to curb the 13-point gap to second place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With three races left, we hope for the best results possible for ourselves but also for the team,&#8221; Vettel is quoted by the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Agreed team boss Christian Horner: &#8220;He (Webber) has had a very strong year and we want to get him second in the drivers&#8217; championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s our remaining target for the remainder of the year &#8212; to get him a race win and finish the season in style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked if that might involve him giving up a win so that Webber can reach the top step of the podium, Vettel answered: &#8220;Yeah, definitely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has hinted he might be willing to give up a race victory to help his team perform a perfect score in 2011. Red Bull and the 24-year-old German have already secured the constructors&#8217; and drivers&#8217; world championships, but Mark Webber currently lies in only fourth place behind Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button with &#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":[128,5262,5340,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986"}],"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=13986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13987,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions\/13987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}