{"id":17387,"date":"2012-12-14T06:50:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17387"},"modified":"2012-12-14T06:50:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:50:48","slug":"team-bosses-vote-alonso-best-driver-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/team-bosses-vote-alonso-best-driver-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Team bosses vote Alonso best driver of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 team principals declaring Fernando Alonso the best driver of the 2012 season is &#8220;satisfying&#8221;, Ferrari has admitted.<\/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-drivers\/Fernando-Alonso.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando-Alonso\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Spaniard was beaten to the championship by 3 points by Red Bull&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel, but a British magazine asked the bosses of the 12 teams this year to name the standout performer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, Alonso got a resounding vote: (he) racked up 269 points, a whole 71 more than Vettel,&#8221; Ferrari said in a report posted on its official website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apart from (Stefano) Domenicali, seven other team principals chose Alonso as the best driver of the season,&#8221; the famous Italian team added.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso said: &#8220;I was pleased to be chosen by the team principals as the best driver of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, next year I would prefer to win the title, happy to leave this prestigious yet idealistic award to one of my peers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 team principals declaring Fernando Alonso the best driver of the 2012 season is &#8220;satisfying&#8221;, Ferrari has admitted. The Spaniard was beaten to the championship by 3 points by Red Bull&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel, but a British magazine asked the bosses of the 12 teams this year to name the standout performer. &#8220;Well, Alonso got a &#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":[5262,4219,149,93,5340,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387"}],"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=17387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17388,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions\/17388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}