{"id":17461,"date":"2012-12-27T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2012-12-27T17:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T22:45:04","slug":"ferrari-says-red-bull-give-best-parts-to-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-says-red-bull-give-best-parts-to-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari says Red Bull give ‘best parts’ to Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Bull also has a clear number 1 driver, Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has alleged.<\/p>\n

\"Stefano-Domenicali-1\"The fabled Italian team is open about its policy of hiring a clearly superior top driver – presently Fernando Alonso – alongside a capable ‘number 2’ such as Felipe Massa.<\/p>\n

In Austin last month, this policy was highlighted when Ferrari deliberately incurred a gearbox penalty on Brazilian Massa’s car in order to give Alonso a better grid position.<\/p>\n

“If the others don’t like it, we don’t care,” Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo is quoted by Marca sports newspaper.<\/p>\n

“Others are critical but do the same, although less transparently.”<\/p>\n

Team principal Domenicali picks up the theme.<\/p>\n

“Why does Webber have so many failures on his car?\u00a0 Because the best parts go to the driver getting the better results.<\/p>\n

“And this is normal, and it seems so logical that we never say anything.<\/p>\n

“We don’t like to speak of the others, but the others like to talk about us,” he added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Domenicali admitted Ferrari is looking forward to 2013, even though Red Bull and McLaren had superior cars this year and the rules are not changing much.<\/p>\n

Ferrari, though, thinks the banning of DRS on Saturday is a “major change”, while Pirelli will supply softer tyres.<\/p>\n

“This year it took us between two and five laps to heat the tyres,” said Domenicali.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Bull also has a clear number 1 driver, Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has alleged. The fabled Italian team is open about its policy of hiring a clearly superior top driver – presently Fernando Alonso – alongside a capable ‘number 2’ such as Felipe Massa. In Austin last month, this policy was highlighted when …<\/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":[5262,93,5340,129,164,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461"}],"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=17461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17462,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions\/17462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}