{"id":16651,"date":"2012-09-23T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T23:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16651"},"modified":"2012-09-23T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T23:22:58","slug":"alonsos-title-lead-sheds-8-points-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonsos-title-lead-sheds-8-points-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso’s title lead sheds 8 points in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernando Alonso’s championship lead shed 8 points under the Singapore lights on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

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\"R12Sin-F1-09\"<\/p>\n

Before the two hour-limited race ended, Ferrari’s Spaniard Alonso was leading pole sitter Lewis Hamilton by 37 points.<\/p>\n

Hamilton controlled the first half of the race but then retired with a gearbox failure, letting Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel win.<\/p>\n

McLaren’s Martin Whitmarsh said he doubted the failure was caused by Hamilton’s brush with the wall in qualifying on Saturday.<\/p>\n

But German back-to-back title winner Vettel snatches the Briton’s second place in the drivers’ championship, leaving Alonso with a 29-point lead now with just 6 races to go.<\/p>\n

The situation is reminiscent of 2010, when Vettel took his first title by hunting down Alonso in the dying stages of the season.<\/p>\n

“I think Fernando won’t be too happy if it happens again,” the 25-year-old laughed to former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan on the podium.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Alonso’s lead would have been further diminished on Sunday if Hamilton’s gearbox had survived.<\/p>\n

“For me,” Alonso smiled to Jordan, “it’s ok if they keep doing that.”<\/p>\n

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Fernando Alonso’s championship lead shed 8 points under the Singapore lights on Sunday night. Before the two hour-limited race ended, Ferrari’s Spaniard Alonso was leading pole sitter Lewis Hamilton by 37 points. Hamilton controlled the first half of the race but then retired with a gearbox failure, letting Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel win. McLaren’s Martin …<\/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":[451,5262,149,5340,153,164,2130],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651"}],"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=16651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16652,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions\/16652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}