{"id":15935,"date":"2012-05-04T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T10:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15935"},"modified":"2012-05-04T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T10:51:10","slug":"schumachers-pirelli-spat-exaggerated-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumachers-pirelli-spat-exaggerated-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher&#8217;s Pirelli spat &#8216;exaggerated&#8217; &#8211; Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has hit back at what he thinks was an &#8220;exaggerated&#8221; reaction to Michael Schumacher after the recent Bahrain grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Sebastian-Vettel-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian-Vettel-2\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Schumacher, Vettel&#8217;s countryman and friend, had heavily criticised the sport&#8217;s official supplier Pirelli, despite the Italian marque&#8217;s 2012 tyres being widely credited for the exciting grands prix seen so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a bit exaggerated,&#8221; world champion Vettel, referring to the reaction to Schumacher&#8217;s comments, is quoted by Sport Bild.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, we all have the same tyres, but of course as a driver you always want more grip, whether from the tyres or from the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is in our nature to want more &#8212; more especially than the others,&#8221; he smiled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I talk about this with Michael, it&#8217;s not so dramatic.\u00a0 He has been around for a long time and has seen a lot, also when it comes to tyres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he is so easily shocked,&#8221; insisted Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>* Energy drink Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz made a rare visit to the sport&#8217;s action on Thursday, catching the final day of Mugello testing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has hit back at what he thinks was an &#8220;exaggerated&#8221; reaction to Michael Schumacher after the recent Bahrain grand prix. Schumacher, Vettel&#8217;s countryman and friend, had heavily criticised the sport&#8217;s official supplier Pirelli, despite the Italian marque&#8217;s 2012 tyres being widely credited for the exciting grands prix seen so far this year. &#8220;It&#8217;s &#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":[864,262,5262,5340,92,3731,1404,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935"}],"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=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15936,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions\/15936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}