{"id":18387,"date":"2013-05-29T07:04:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18387"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:04:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:04:16","slug":"vettel-smashed-fastest-lap-after-monaco-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-smashed-fastest-lap-after-monaco-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel smashed fastest lap after Monaco boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has admitted he defied his team&#8217;s instructions in Monaco due to boredom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Sebastian-Vettel-car-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Sebastian-Vettel-car-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>In the dying stages of the race, the Red Bull driver picked up his pace behind winner Nico Rosberg, earning a rebuke for smashing the fastest race lap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just satisfaction instead of going slow for 77 laps,&#8221; replied the German.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No satisfaction for us though,&#8221; added Vettel&#8217;s race engineer Guillaume Rocquelin.<\/p>\n<p>On seeing just how much faster the Red Bull driver was capable of going in Monaco, having conserved Pirelli&#8217;s fragile tyres all race, BBC commentator David Coulthard called the current situation in F1 &#8220;rubbish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel added: &#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to do something silly, and I apologise for quarrelling with my engineer on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s a reflection of how the racing is today, when you can be three seconds a lap faster,&#8221; he is quoted by Brazil&#8217;s Totalrace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that the drivers are not enjoying the races as much as they would like,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The show is good up to a point, but if it&#8217;s a matter of following one another and waiting for the chequered flag, I&#8217;m not sure if that is what people want to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vettel said he hopes the changes being made by Pirelli for the next race in Canada and beyond will help the situation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has admitted he defied his team&#8217;s instructions in Monaco due to boredom. In the dying stages of the race, the Red Bull driver picked up his pace behind winner Nico Rosberg, earning a rebuke for smashing the fastest race lap. &#8220;Just satisfaction instead of going slow for 77 laps,&#8221; replied the German. &#8220;No &#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":[410,5262,5340,4060,1534,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387"}],"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=18387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18388,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387\/revisions\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}