{"id":18335,"date":"2013-05-23T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18335"},"modified":"2013-05-23T07:15:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:15:18","slug":"mercedes-clarifies-hamilton-jet-ski-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-clarifies-hamilton-jet-ski-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes clarifies Hamilton jet-ski incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes on Thursday hit back at reports Lewis Hamilton racked up a huge damage bill after a jet-skiing stunt in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Mercedes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-logos\/Mercedes.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"115\" \/>A Swiss newspaper had said the 2008 world champion performed an extra-tight turn in front of a boat of photographers on Wednesday, deliberately soaking and damaging photo and TV cameras and mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Blick journalist Roger Benoit said Mercedes had apologised and vowed to pay the $150,000 repair bill.<\/p>\n<p>But a Mercedes source on Thursday insisted that the story was not the classic case of a celebrity lashing out at paparazzi.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were performing on jet-skis for a television film crew.<\/p>\n<p>And the claims about the cost of the damage to equipment was also wrong, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The TV equipment is fine, as Sky themselves confirmed to journalists asking questions yesterday,&#8221; said the source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One photographer who failed to protect his camera equipment got some water inside it.\u00a0 But not specifically from something Lewis did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As he is a freelancer, we will make the goodwill gesture of helping to repair\/replace the equipment,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes on Thursday hit back at reports Lewis Hamilton racked up a huge damage bill after a jet-skiing stunt in Monaco. A Swiss newspaper had said the 2008 world champion performed an extra-tight turn in front of a boat of photographers on Wednesday, deliberately soaking and damaging photo and TV cameras and mobile phones. Blick &#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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335"}],"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=18335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18336,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions\/18336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}