{"id":1540,"date":"2010-01-15T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2010-01-15T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:10:15","slug":"alonso-shrugs-off-hamilton-jibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-shrugs-off-hamilton-jibe\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso shrugs off Hamilton jibe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso spent little time reacting to a provocative comment made recently by his former McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contemplating their explosive single season together at the Woking team in 2007, Briton Hamilton recalled that &#8220;I blew him away&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In fact, the pair won four races apiece and ended the season with identical tallies of 109 points, but 28-year-old Alonso did not get upset when asked about Hamilton&#8217;s comment at Ferrari&#8217;s winter media event this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I have to answer to all that he says I would use up too much time,&#8221; he shrugged, according to the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McLaren, though, are a good team and when I went there it was a nice moment for me,&#8221; the Spaniard added.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also revealed that, while earlier on the piste at the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort, Alonso slid 40 metres down the steep &#8216;Schumacher&#8217; descent after a fall.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters he is short on practice on skis, and also lamented the forthcoming lack of testing before taking his new Ferrari to Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have only seven or eight days to get used to the new car,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps at the first race I will not be completely familiar with my new environment.\u00a0 But by the third race at the latest, we will see the real Alonso,&#8221; he promised.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso rued F1&#8217;s bid to slash costs by tightly limiting track testing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is probably no other sport in which you can only practice seven times before the beginning of a season,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso spent little time reacting to a provocative comment made recently by his former McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton. \u00a0 Contemplating their explosive single season together at the Woking team in 2007, Briton Hamilton recalled that &#8220;I blew him away&#8221;.<\/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":[5262,149,93,154,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}