{"id":17247,"date":"2012-11-29T08:16:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T13:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2012-11-29T08:16:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T13:16:51","slug":"vettel-pass-was-legal-fias-whiting-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-pass-was-legal-fias-whiting-declares\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel pass was legal, FIA&#8217;s Whiting declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s governing body has sided with Red Bull, after Ferrari on Thursday wrote the FIA a letter that might have changed the outcome of the 2012 world championship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Charlie-Whiting.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie-Whiting\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Ferrari&#8217;s letter of &#8220;clarification&#8221; followed the emergence this week of video footage that apparently showed Sebastian Vettel illegally passing a Toro Rosso during the title-deciding Brazilian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>But media outlets including the Telegraph said the FIA had already responded on Thursday by declaring there is &#8220;no case to answer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And race director Charlie Whiting was on Thursday quoted by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport: &#8220;Between the last yellow light and the green light, there was a green flag being waved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vettel responded to the flag and did everything right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s governing body has sided with Red Bull, after Ferrari on Thursday wrote the FIA a letter that might have changed the outcome of the 2012 world championship. Ferrari&#8217;s letter of &#8220;clarification&#8221; followed the emergence this week of video footage that apparently showed Sebastian Vettel illegally passing a Toro Rosso during the title-deciding Brazilian grand &#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":[2059,810,5262,93,5300,5340,164,259,4159],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247"}],"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=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17248,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions\/17248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}