{"id":18331,"date":"2013-05-23T07:09:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18331"},"modified":"2013-05-23T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:09:50","slug":"costly-day-for-mercedes-after-hamilton-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/costly-day-for-mercedes-after-hamilton-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"Costly day for Mercedes after Hamilton prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday was a costly day in Monaco for Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Lewis-Hamilton-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Lewis-Hamilton-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>According to Swiss newspaper Blick&#8217;s veteran F1 correspondent Roger Benoit, Lewis Hamilton lost his temper with a boatload of photographers whilst jet-skiing in the Monaco harbour.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Hamilton performed an extra-tight turn in front of the photographers, deliberately soaking their photo and TV cameras and mobile phones with a wave of seawater.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An expensive prank,&#8221; said Benoit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hamilton&#8217;s team Mercedes apologised and paid for the $150,000 (!) in damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later, Hamilton spoke to reporters in the Monaco paddock for his usual media duties with his pet Roscoe &#8211; a bulldog &#8211; snoring loudly on his lap.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday was a costly day in Monaco for Mercedes. According to Swiss newspaper Blick&#8217;s veteran F1 correspondent Roger Benoit, Lewis Hamilton lost his temper with a boatload of photographers whilst jet-skiing in the Monaco harbour. The report said Hamilton performed an extra-tight turn in front of the photographers, deliberately soaking their photo and TV cameras &#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":[5262,5340,154,34,1534,4470,3109],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18331"}],"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=18331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18332,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18331\/revisions\/18332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}