{"id":16305,"date":"2012-07-06T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16305"},"modified":"2012-07-06T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T00:33:08","slug":"fia-admits-alonso-and-hamilton-escaped-valencia-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-admits-alonso-and-hamilton-escaped-valencia-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA admits Alonso and Hamilton escaped Valencia sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia winner Fernando Alonso, and McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton, only narrowly avoided penalties at the recent European 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-logos\/FIA-2.jpg\" alt=\"FIA-2\" width=\"288\" height=\"115\" \/>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport has revealed the details of a team bosses meeting that took place at Silverstone on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They were told by FIA officials that Alonso and Hamilton technically broke the rules at Valencia, and would have been sanctioned if rival teams lodged official protests.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton reportedly overtook pole sitter Sebastian Vettel twice on the pre-race warm-up lap; a practice that is not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>And Spaniard Alonso also broke the rules by accepting the Spanish flag from a marshal on the slowing-down lap, after thrilling the partisan crowd by winning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Blick newspaper has crowned Hamilton the unofficial &#8220;bad guy&#8221; of formula one, on the basis of a document doing the rounds in the Silverstone paddock.<\/p>\n<p>It is a list of all the punished offenses in F1 over the last ten years &#8212; with the 27-year-old British driver in clear pole position.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia winner Fernando Alonso, and McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton, only narrowly avoided penalties at the recent European grand prix. Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport has revealed the details of a team bosses meeting that took place at Silverstone on Thursday. They were told by FIA officials that Alonso and Hamilton technically broke the rules at Valencia, &#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":[1828,5262,149,93,5340,154,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305"}],"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=16305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16306,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions\/16306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}