{"id":14295,"date":"2011-11-16T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T12:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14295"},"modified":"2011-11-16T07:11:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T12:11:47","slug":"report-blown-exhaust-caused-vettel-puncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/report-blown-exhaust-caused-vettel-puncture\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8211; Blown exhaust caused Vettel puncture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a media report, a reason for Red Bull&#8217;s dominance in 2011 could also explain Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s mysterious retirement from the Abu Dhabi grand prix on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2011\/championship-f1-2011\/R11Abd-F1\/R11Abd-F1-11.jpg\" alt=\"R11Abd-F1-11\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Autosprint reports that the damage to the back to back world champion&#8217;s rear Pirelli tyre on the second corner of the race could be related to Red Bull&#8217;s blown exhaust solution for its RB7 car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tyre was not cut (on the kerb) or damaged by debris,&#8221; read the report.\u00a0 &#8220;So what happened?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the race, Vettel went to the scene of the puncture to conduct his own analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In three years no one has had a tyre problem there so I wanted to see if there was an obvious cause.\u00a0 There wasn&#8217;t,&#8221; the German is quoted by Express newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Autosprint&#8217;s theory is that Vettel&#8217;s pre-race routine in preparation for the start went awry.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the routine involves hot Renault engine gases from the exhausts of the 2011 Red Bull blowing onto the tyres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For some reason &#8211; defects in the procedure, the wrong mapping, other circumstances &#8211; not everything proceeded as it usually does,&#8221; claims Autosprint.<\/p>\n<p>The report concludes that it was the hot gases that damaged the tyre and caused the sudden puncture.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a media report, a reason for Red Bull&#8217;s dominance in 2011 could also explain Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s mysterious retirement from the Abu Dhabi grand prix on Sunday. Italy&#8217;s Autosprint reports that the damage to the back to back world champion&#8217;s rear Pirelli tyre on the second corner of the race could be related to &#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":[2348,3379,5262,5340,129,3378,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295"}],"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=14295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14296,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions\/14296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}