{"id":19327,"date":"2013-09-20T07:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19327"},"modified":"2013-09-20T07:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:23:41","slug":"vettel-not-focused-on-big-title-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-not-focused-on-big-title-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel not focused on big title advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With every rival team now focusing arguably harder on the big challenge of 2014, Red Bull&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel is increasingly seen as this year&#8217;s champion-elect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left 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\" \/>Indeed, some are now wondering what the German&#8217;s eventual points margin over his nearest rival will be by the end of the season, or with how many races to spare he will officially be declared a quadruple world champion.<\/p>\n<p>But Vettel is playing down that sort of talk in Singapore, where he has won for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to be champion with a particular points advantage,&#8221; he is quoted by the German news agency SID.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m also not thinking about what the others are doing or what is good or bad for us in terms of points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Vettel claims to have had no idea &#8211; until he was told by reporters on Thursday &#8211; that his advantage over Fernando Alonso is currently 53 points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There may be some who are bored of us winning so often, but not us,&#8221; he smiled.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every rival team now focusing arguably harder on the big challenge of 2014, Red Bull&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel is increasingly seen as this year&#8217;s champion-elect. Indeed, some are now wondering what the German&#8217;s eventual points margin over his nearest rival will be by the end of the season, or with how many races to spare &#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":[5262,5340,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327"}],"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=19327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19328,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327\/revisions\/19328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}