{"id":19544,"date":"2013-10-10T20:38:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19544"},"modified":"2013-10-10T20:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:38:55","slug":"rest-of-career-will-show-if-vettel-great-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rest-of-career-will-show-if-vettel-great-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest of career will show if Vettel great – Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernando Alonso on Thursday added his slight to the debate about Sebastian Vettel’s greatness.<\/p>\n

After Lewis Hamilton’s comments last week indicated a lack of respect for the soon-to-be four-time world champion, the 2008 world champion wrote on Twitter that Vettel is great “regardless of what you and I may think about his car”.<\/p>\n

Speaking at Suzuka, Alonso also gave mixed messages about what he really thinks about the dominant Red Bull driver’s success.<\/p>\n

“He’s a fantastic driver and has a fantastic car,” said the Ferrari driver.<\/p>\n

“It’s true he has an advantage in car performance for this year so we’ll see how good he is later in his career,” added Alonso.<\/p>\n

Alonso also hinted that Vettel’s superiority this year could have been enhanced by the performance of the driver at the wheel of the other Red Bull.<\/p>\n

Alonso, who is close friends with Mark Webber, said of the Australian: “He’s lost some of his motivation.<\/p>\n

“He’s no longer enjoying himself so he decided to retire,” he is quoted by La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n

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Fernando Alonso on Thursday added his slight to the debate about Sebastian Vettel’s greatness. After Lewis Hamilton’s comments last week indicated a lack of respect for the soon-to-be four-time world champion, the 2008 world champion wrote on Twitter that Vettel is great “regardless of what you and I may think about his car”. Speaking at …<\/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":[5262,149,5340,154,165,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19544"}],"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=19544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19545,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19544\/revisions\/19545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}