{"id":17328,"date":"2012-12-10T07:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T12:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17328"},"modified":"2012-12-10T07:02:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T12:02:44","slug":"vettel-raikkonen-break-the-rules-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-raikkonen-break-the-rules-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel, Raikkonen, break the rules in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel almost missed the FIA&#8217;s end-of-season FIA prize giving gala, where he received his trophy for winning the 2012 title for a third consecutive time.<\/p>\n<p>But DPA news agency reports that the Red Bull driver actually touched down in Istanbul without his passport, and initially was refused entry into Turkey.<\/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-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Sebastian-Vettel-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian-Vettel-2\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>&#8220;Vettel, who arrived on a private jet, had to wait over an hour at the airport,&#8221; the report read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was only after the intervention of the Turkish motor sports federation that he was allowed through customs with a replacement document.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kimi Raikkonen, who said he &#8220;unfortunately&#8221; had to attend due to finishing the season in third place, also caused a stir when he showed up at the black-tie function &#8212; wearing a suit but no tie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t follow the rules,&#8221; Lotus quoted the inimitable Finn as saying on Twitter, &#8220;I just make them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel almost missed the FIA&#8217;s end-of-season FIA prize giving gala, where he received his trophy for winning the 2012 title for a third consecutive time. But DPA news agency reports that the Red Bull driver actually touched down in Istanbul without his passport, and initially was refused entry into Turkey. &#8220;Vettel, who arrived on &#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":[5262,5300,4190,5340,152,164,4191],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328"}],"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=17328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17329,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions\/17329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}