{"id":17211,"date":"2012-11-26T06:50:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T11:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17211"},"modified":"2012-11-26T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T11:50:44","slug":"vettel-did-not-pass-illegally-en-route-to-third-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-did-not-pass-illegally-en-route-to-third-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel did not pass illegally en route to third title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso and Ferrari&#8217;s supporters were clinging to hope even after Sebastian Vettel sealed his third consecutive world championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Replay footage from the Brazilian title showdown appeared to depict Red Bull&#8217;s Vettel passing Kamui Kobayashi under yellow flags during the Interlagos race.<\/p>\n<p>However, the apparent infraction was not investigated by the stewards during the race, raising suspicions the officials had not noticed.<\/p>\n<p>So it became a post-race point of intrigue, given that if Vettel was subsequently demoted from sixth to eighth place, Alonso would have won the championship by a point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The yellow flag, (there&#8217;s) not any news,&#8221; the Spaniard told reporters after the podium ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso said race winner Jenson Button had told him about the possibility Vettel had passed illegally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was some kind of hope when he told me there is some yellow flag problem but then I think it was not true,&#8221; he admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it was Ferrari&#8217;s technical boss Pat Fry who clarified that the waving flag was actually coloured yellow and red, which is a warning to drivers about treacherous track conditions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso and Ferrari&#8217;s supporters were clinging to hope even after Sebastian Vettel sealed his third consecutive world championship on Sunday. Replay footage from the Brazilian title showdown appeared to depict Red Bull&#8217;s Vettel passing Kamui Kobayashi under yellow flags during the Interlagos race. However, the apparent infraction was not investigated by the stewards during &#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":[5262,149,93,5340,97,1599,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17211"}],"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=17211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17212,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17211\/revisions\/17212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}