{"id":17067,"date":"2012-11-14T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T11:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17067"},"modified":"2012-11-14T06:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T11:54:55","slug":"red-bull-on-brink-of-third-teams-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-on-brink-of-third-teams-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull on brink of third teams&#8217; title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is on the brink of wrapping up the 2012 constructors&#8217; championship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012\/championship-f1-2012\/R12Hun-F1\/R12Hun-F1-06.jpg\" alt=\"R12Hun-F1-06\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The 2010 and 2011 title winners &#8211; whose German driver Sebastian Vettel also secured back-to-back drivers&#8217; championships &#8211; are 82 points ahead of nearest challengers Ferrari with just two races to go.<\/p>\n<p>If the points gap is more than 43 after Sunday&#8217;s US grand prix, Red Bull will be the 2012 champions with still the Interlagos finale in its pocket.<\/p>\n<p>To stop Red Bull becoming champions this weekend, Ferrari would need to score an almost perfect 39 points in Texas, with Red Bull failing to score at all.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers&#8217; title is the one hailed by the media and fans, but the constructors&#8217; championship is highly lucrative &#8212; worth, according to Speed Week, about $100 million to the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Frank Williams, whose eponymous team has won 9 constructors&#8217; titles, said: &#8220;The team that gets the most points, has done the best job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The drivers come and go, the team stays,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is on the brink of wrapping up the 2012 constructors&#8217; championship. The 2010 and 2011 title winners &#8211; whose German driver Sebastian Vettel also secured back-to-back drivers&#8217; championships &#8211; are 82 points ahead of nearest challengers Ferrari with just two races to go. If the points gap is more than 43 after Sunday&#8217;s &#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":[5262,5340,129,929],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067"}],"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=17067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17068,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions\/17068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}