{"id":15882,"date":"2012-04-24T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T10:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15882"},"modified":"2012-04-24T06:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T10:50:39","slug":"super-massa-has-nothing-to-prove-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/super-massa-has-nothing-to-prove-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Super&#8217; Massa has nothing to prove &#8211; Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has backed his beleaguered teammate Felipe Massa.<\/p>\n<p>Massa is fighting to save his Ferrari seat, but his team boss Stefano Domenicali insists the Brazilian also &#8220;needs to improve&#8221; for the sake of his very &#8220;future in formula one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Fernando-Alonso.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando-Alonso\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>On the other hand, the Maranello based team is more than enthralled with the occupant of the sister F2012, Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Domenicali told El Mundo newspaper last weekend that Ferrari has a &#8220;moral obligation&#8221; to the Spaniard, that might also extend to his involvement &#8220;in the important issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One important issue is the identity of his 2013 teammate.<\/p>\n<p>On Massa, Alonso is quoted by El Pais newspaper after Massa finished ninth in Bahrain: &#8220;He had a great start, pulled away from the traffic and ran a super race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we didn&#8217;t discover this just now: Felipe has won in Bahrain twice.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t need to prove anything,&#8221; said Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has backed his beleaguered teammate Felipe Massa. Massa is fighting to save his Ferrari seat, but his team boss Stefano Domenicali insists the Brazilian also &#8220;needs to improve&#8221; for the sake of his very &#8220;future in formula one&#8221;. On the other hand, the Maranello based team is more than enthralled with the occupant &#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":[5262,130,149,93,5340,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882"}],"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=15882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15883,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882\/revisions\/15883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}