{"id":16831,"date":"2012-10-12T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16831"},"modified":"2012-10-12T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:32:12","slug":"vettel-the-clear-favourite-now-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-the-clear-favourite-now-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel the clear favourite now &#8211; Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel is now the outright favourite for the 2012 title, his countryman Michael Schumacher says.<\/p>\n<p>But the seven time world champion has admitted his predictions underwent an about-face at Suzuka, where championship leader Fernando Alonso crashed at the first corner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, the championship was already decided,&#8221; Schumacher is quoted by Bild newspaper in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With his points gap, when Fernando went into the race at Suzuka, I thought he was clearly on the home stretch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I now see the advantage clearly with Sebastian,&#8221; added Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has the package (car) he needs and I am sure he can drive it home now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although contenders Alonso and Vettel would both secure their third drivers&#8217; titles in 2012, the feat for Vettel will make him only the third great in F1 history to secure three crowns on the trot.<\/p>\n<p>Only Juan Manuel Fangio and Schumacher himself have won three in successive years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel is now the outright favourite for the 2012 title, his countryman Michael Schumacher says. But the seven time world champion has admitted his predictions underwent an about-face at Suzuka, where championship leader Fernando Alonso crashed at the first corner. &#8220;For me, the championship was already decided,&#8221; Schumacher is quoted by Bild newspaper in &#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":[5262,5340,92,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831"}],"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=16831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16832,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831\/revisions\/16832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}