{"id":18379,"date":"2013-05-28T07:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18379"},"modified":"2013-05-28T07:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:11:17","slug":"hamilton-hits-back-at-vettels-silver-buses-jibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-hits-back-at-vettels-silver-buses-jibe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton hits back at Vettel&#8217;s &#8216;silver buses&#8217; jibe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has hit back at Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s description of the Mercedes cars in the Monaco grand prix as &#8220;buses&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Lewis-Hamilton-car-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Lewis-Hamilton-car-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Red Bull&#8217;s world champion Vettel, who finished second on Sunday behind Nico Rosberg, said of the opening laps in Monaco: &#8220;You expect two silver arrows and there were two buses going for a cruise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, who switched to Mercedes over the winter, told Press Association news agency he didn&#8217;t appreciate the analogy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has had the fastest car for the last four years, so it&#8217;s easy for him to say that.\u00a0 He&#8217;s got it easy,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are making our way up, we are learning, growing, improving with a car that has great potential, so I don&#8217;t agree with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was more reluctant to talk about the furore caused by Mercedes&#8217; &#8216;secret&#8217; tyre test, insisting he has to focus instead on getting up to speed with the on-form Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just have to focus on myself and try and get my act together,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has hit back at Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s description of the Mercedes cars in the Monaco grand prix as &#8220;buses&#8221;. Red Bull&#8217;s world champion Vettel, who finished second on Sunday behind Nico Rosberg, said of the opening laps in Monaco: &#8220;You expect two silver arrows and there were two buses going for a cruise&#8221;. Hamilton, &#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":[5262,5340,154,4475,1534,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379"}],"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=18379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18380,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions\/18380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}