{"id":18243,"date":"2013-05-10T06:59:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2013-05-10T06:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T10:59:01","slug":"vettel-expects-steward-jones-to-be-fair-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-expects-steward-jones-to-be-fair-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel expects steward Jones to be fair in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has brushed off fears he might be the victim of unfair treatment this weekend in Spain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Sebastian-Vettel-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Sebastian-Vettel-3.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The ex-steward on the FIA stewards&#8217; panel this weekend in Barcelona is 1980 world champion Alan Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Australian warned his countryman Mark Webber to treat German Vettel as an &#8220;enemy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seb has proved he can&#8217;t be trusted,&#8221; Jones told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old former Williams driver was referring to the &#8216;Multi-21&#8242; team orders affair, adding that if Vettel disagrees with Red Bull&#8217;s instructions, &#8220;he shouldn&#8217;t have signed his agreement in the first place&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Title leader and reigning world champion Vettel, however, brushed off suggestions he might be treated unfairly by Jones this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was not aware of that,&#8221; he told Kolner Express newspaper, referring to Jones&#8217; comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if Mr Jones has taken the job as a steward, I am assuming that he is independent and neutral and so I expect no problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vettel also rubbished rumours linking him with a move to Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was surprised when I read it,&#8221; he told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t read that much, usually just the headlines &#8212; it&#8217;s pretty funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has brushed off fears he might be the victim of unfair treatment this weekend in Spain. The ex-steward on the FIA stewards&#8217; panel this weekend in Barcelona is 1980 world champion Alan Jones. Earlier this week, the Australian warned his countryman Mark Webber to treat German Vettel as an &#8220;enemy&#8221;. &#8220;Seb has proved &#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":[4384,376,5262,5300,5340,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243"}],"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=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18244,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions\/18244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}