{"id":14276,"date":"2011-11-15T06:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14276"},"modified":"2011-11-15T06:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:41:48","slug":"2007-enemies-in-unholy-alliance-against-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/2007-enemies-in-unholy-alliance-against-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 enemies in &#8216;unholy alliance&#8217; against Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-interest may have motivated the new friendship between Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the pair clashed spectacularly as McLaren teammates, and in the intervening years they have maintained a healthy distance.<\/p>\n<p>At the penultimate grand prix of 2011 in Abu Dhabi, however, the pair spent the days leading up to the event praising one another&#8217;s talents.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when they finished first and second in the race, they shared an unusually warm hug.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton explained to Italian broadcaster Rai: &#8220;I loved the fight with Fernando, I think he&#8217;s the strongest driver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Sebastian Vettel out of the race with a rare retirement but having started from pole as per usual in his meteoric back-to-back championship season, the correspondent for La Stampa newspaper smells a rat.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2012 season now looming and Red Bull&#8217;s dominance to possibly continue, journalist Stefano Mancini calls the new friendship between Hamilton and Alonso an &#8220;unholy alliance against Vettel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-interest may have motivated the new friendship between Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton. In 2007, the pair clashed spectacularly as McLaren teammates, and in the intervening years they have maintained a healthy distance. At the penultimate grand prix of 2011 in Abu Dhabi, however, the pair spent the days leading up to the event praising &#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":[5262,149,5340,154,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276"}],"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=14276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14277,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions\/14277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}