{"id":15859,"date":"2012-04-22T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T20:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15859"},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T20:41:28","slug":"vettel-wins-takes-title-lead-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-wins-takes-title-lead-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel wins, takes title lead in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s surprise 2012 season has kept on bubbling in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012\/championship-f1-2012\/R12Bhn-F1\/R12Bhn-F1-09.jpg\" alt=\"R12Bhn-F1-09\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>It is a measure of the excitement and unpredictability of the new championship that, just days after some media said the reigning title winner was in &#8216;crisis&#8217;, Sebastian Vettel won from pole and took the lead of the 2012 points standings.<\/p>\n<p>But the German only narrowly beat the returning 2009 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, with Lotus also completing the surprise podium as Romain Grosjean sampled the sport&#8217;s prestigious rostrum for the very first time.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel leads the championship by 4 points from Lewis Hamilton, who finished just eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull also leads the constructors&#8217; chase, by 9 points from McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel is the fourth different winner in F1&#8217;s four races so far this year, following Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>It is his first win since India last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many good stories can we have in formula one in terms of the racing?&#8221; David Coulthard said on BBC television.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;re only four races in and we&#8217;ve had such a mix of winners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s surprise 2012 season has kept on bubbling in Bahrain. It is a measure of the excitement and unpredictability of the new championship that, just days after some media said the reigning title winner was in &#8216;crisis&#8217;, Sebastian Vettel won from pole and took the lead of the 2012 points standings. But the German only &#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":[864,5262,5340,152,129,295,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859"}],"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=15859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15860,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859\/revisions\/15860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}