{"id":16074,"date":"2012-05-28T03:14:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16074"},"modified":"2012-05-28T03:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T07:16:44","slug":"vettel-denies-signing-ferrari-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-denies-signing-ferrari-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel denies signing Ferrari deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has denied reports he has signed a &#8216;pre-contract&#8217; to move to Ferrari in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Sebastian-Vettel-3.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian-Vettel-3\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Two British Sunday newspapers reported the rumour just ahead of the Monaco grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe they needed to fill up some space in their newspapers,&#8221; the reigning world champion, who remains under contract to Red Bull for the foreseeable future, told the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have signed nothing,&#8221; the 24-year-old German insisted.<\/p>\n<p>As for why he was the only missing team member when Red Bull celebrated Mark Webber&#8217;s Monaco victory by leaping into Red Bull&#8217;s harbour pool, Vettel answered: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want a swim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I didn&#8217;t have any spare clothes,&#8221; he smiled wryly.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel finished fourth, losing his championship lead to Ferrari&#8217;s Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has denied reports he has signed a &#8216;pre-contract&#8217; to move to Ferrari in 2014. Two British Sunday newspapers reported the rumour just ahead of the Monaco grand prix. &#8220;Maybe they needed to fill up some space in their newspapers,&#8221; the reigning world champion, who remains under contract to Red Bull for the foreseeable &#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":[5262,93,5340,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16074"}],"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=16074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16078,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16074\/revisions\/16078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}