{"id":18271,"date":"2013-05-13T07:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18271"},"modified":"2013-05-13T07:16:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:16:05","slug":"alonso-almost-penalised-for-flag-waving-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-almost-penalised-for-flag-waving-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso almost penalised for flag waving breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA on Sunday considered penalising Fernando Alonso for picking up a Spanish flag during his post-chequered flag in-lap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Fernando-Alonso-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Fernando-Alonso-3.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>After winning his home race in Barcelona, Alonso stopped beside a marshal who furnished his Spanish compatriot and hero with a red and yellow Spanish flag.<\/p>\n<p>Once in &#8216;parc ferme&#8217;, the Ferrari driver draped the flag over the &#8216;1&#8217; signboard indicating where he should park.<\/p>\n<p>But the glorious moment was actually a breach of a regulation about &#8220;receiving an object&#8221; prior to the post-race weighing and scrutineering procedure, and Alonso and a Ferrari team member were summoned to the stewards.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the FIA officials let him off without penalty &#8220;to be consistent with a previous decision made under similar circumstances&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA on Sunday considered penalising Fernando Alonso for picking up a Spanish flag during his post-chequered flag in-lap. After winning his home race in Barcelona, Alonso stopped beside a marshal who furnished his Spanish compatriot and hero with a red and yellow Spanish flag. Once in &#8216;parc ferme&#8217;, the Ferrari driver draped the flag &#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":[3700,5262,149,93,5300,5340,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18271"}],"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=18271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18272,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18271\/revisions\/18272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}