{"id":19793,"date":"2013-11-04T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19793"},"modified":"2013-11-04T07:02:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:02:51","slug":"no-penalty-after-vettel-donuts-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-penalty-after-vettel-donuts-in-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"No penalty after Vettel ‘donuts’ in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sebastian Vettel will not have to spend a penny after doing more victory ‘donuts’ in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

\"Sebastian-Vettel-car-2\"A week ago in India, when the German wrapped up his fourth consecutive world title, FIA stewards issued a reprimand and EUR 25,000 fine after Vettel thrilled the fans with a smoky celebration.<\/p>\n

“You are a naughty boy,” former driver Martin Brundle told Vettel on the Abu Dhabi podium, after doing more donuts in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

“That’s going to cost somebody some money.”<\/p>\n

Indeed, even Red Bull was worried about the consequences when engineer Guillaume ‘Rocky’ Rocquelin repeatedly warned Vettel not to do donuts on the slowing down lap.<\/p>\n

Vettel ignored the order, laughing on the radio: “I’m going to quote (Kimi Raikkonen).<\/p>\n

‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what I’m doing’.”<\/p>\n

Team boss Christian Horner replied immediately: “You can pay the fine for that one.”<\/p>\n

Actually, Vettel’s donuts were not even investigated by the FIA, because he did them in a run-off area, and on the slowing-down lap.<\/p>\n

“This time I brought the car back, so it’s fine,” Vettel smiled.\u00a0 “As you can see it’s in parc ferme.”<\/p>\n

Indeed, even teammate Mark Webber did a couple of donuts.<\/p>\n

“It’s not great for the gearbox or the engine,” Horner admitted, “but it’s good for the drivers to let off steam and there are only two races left.”<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sebastian Vettel will not have to spend a penny after doing more victory ‘donuts’ in Abu Dhabi. A week ago in India, when the German wrapped up his fourth consecutive world title, FIA stewards issued a reprimand and EUR 25,000 fine after Vettel thrilled the fans with a smoky celebration. “You are a naughty boy,” …<\/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":[2348,128,5262,5300,5340,4059,322,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793"}],"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=19793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19794,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793\/revisions\/19794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}