{"id":18494,"date":"2013-06-11T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18494"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:22:30","slug":"webber-slams-pay-driver-van-der-garde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-slams-pay-driver-van-der-garde\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber slams &#8216;pay driver&#8217; van der Garde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has slammed Giedo van der Garde for being &#8220;a pay driver with no mirrors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Mark-Webber-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Mark-Webber-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The insult is reminiscent of the Australian veteran&#8217;s ridicule of &#8220;first lap nutcase&#8221; Romain Grosjean last year.<\/p>\n<p>His angry jibe at van der Garde, a rookie this year, follows an incident in the Canadian grand prix, when the Red Bull and Caterham collided while Webber was lapping the Dutchman.<\/p>\n<p>Webber was unimpressed with van der Garde&#8217;s talents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a lot of blue flags as we approached the hairpin,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;Some guys maybe have too much concentration on (just) driving the cars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Van der Garde, 28, was penalised five grid places for Silverstone, and apologised to Webber in the post-race team press release.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has slammed Giedo van der Garde for being &#8220;a pay driver with no mirrors&#8221;. The insult is reminiscent of the Australian veteran&#8217;s ridicule of &#8220;first lap nutcase&#8221; Romain Grosjean last year. His angry jibe at van der Garde, a rookie this year, follows an incident in the Canadian grand prix, when the Red &#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":[1317,5262,5340,2286,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494"}],"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=18494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18495,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions\/18495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}