{"id":15726,"date":"2012-04-04T06:54:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T10:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15726"},"modified":"2012-04-04T06:54:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T10:54:58","slug":"vettel-not-apologising-after-karthikeyan-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-not-apologising-after-karthikeyan-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel not apologising after Karthikeyan attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

World champion Sebastian Vettel was unapologetic this week, having shown his Indian rival Narain Karthikeyan the middle finger recently in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

\"Sebastian-Vettel-3\"The German also called the HRT-driving backmarker a “gherkin” and “idiot” in the aftermath of their Sepang clash that cost Vettel fourth place.<\/p>\n

“I lost a solid fourth place so that’s obviously disappointing,” the 24-year-old is quoted by German media, including Sport Bild, after being asked this week about his loss of temper at Karthikeyan.<\/p>\n

It was suggested Vettel might have breached the FIA’s code of conduct, but it is believed the governing body has decided the stewards properly investigated the incident in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

And Vettel is unapologetic.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes you let some emotion show and I don’t think someone should be ashamed about that,” he said.\u00a0 “It’s part of the sport.”<\/p>\n

Vettel, having utterly dominated a year ago, is now just sixth in the drivers’ points standings after two races.<\/p>\n

“Of course I would have preferred a slightly better start (to 2011),” he admitted, “but it’s a long season.<\/p>\n

“We have a very good car and I still have a good chance — it is still the goal to fight for the title,” he said in Paris, where he accepted the ‘Grands Prix de l’Academie des Sports 2011’ award.<\/p>\n

“Only a few hours ago I was in the simulator, preparing for China and Bahrain.\u00a0 We should hopefully have a few good improvements, but we need to prove that at the tracks,” said Vettel.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World champion Sebastian Vettel was unapologetic this week, having shown his Indian rival Narain Karthikeyan the middle finger recently in Malaysia. The German also called the HRT-driving backmarker a “gherkin” and “idiot” in the aftermath of their Sepang clash that cost Vettel fourth place. “I lost a solid fourth place so that’s obviously disappointing,” the …<\/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":[5262,5300,5340,2327,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726"}],"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=15726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15727,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions\/15727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}