{"id":16949,"date":"2012-11-02T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16949"},"modified":"2012-11-02T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T11:02:39","slug":"webber-calls-for-better-drug-testing-in-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-calls-for-better-drug-testing-in-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber calls for better drug testing in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has called on F1&#8217;s governing body to step up its drug testing, after a motorcycle racer was banned.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Australian Anthony West, who races in the second-tier Moto2 category, was on Thursday banned for a month after testing positive for the stimulant Methylhexaneamine, the AAP news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull driver Webber welcomed motorcycling&#8217;s push to ensure the sport is drug-free, and called on the FIA to follow suit, in order to ensure &#8220;clarity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been championing the idea to do more of it, but the FIA have never really been that strong on it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other drivers have never been super strong on it, so it&#8217;s never really been a huge issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, with what&#8217;s at stake, the money involved and all that type of stuff, people do things,&#8221; Webber insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s extremely unlikely but you never say never.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has called on F1&#8217;s governing body to step up its drug testing, after a motorcycle racer was banned. Fellow Australian Anthony West, who races in the second-tier Moto2 category, was on Thursday banned for a month after testing positive for the stimulant Methylhexaneamine, the AAP news agency reports. Red Bull driver Webber welcomed &#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":[4096,5262,5300,5340,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949"}],"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=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16950,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions\/16950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}