{"id":19922,"date":"2013-11-17T07:53:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T12:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19922"},"modified":"2013-11-17T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T12:53:42","slug":"vettel-better-than-hamilton-and-rosberg-combined-marko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-better-than-hamilton-and-rosberg-combined-marko\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel &#8216;better than Hamilton and Rosberg combined&#8217; &#8211; Marko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel is single-handedly better than Mercedes&#8217; entire driver lineup.<\/p>\n<p>That is the provocative claim of Red Bull&#8217;s always blunt and outspoken Dr Helmut Marko, as Austin polesitter Vettel prepares to break another record on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Another win on Sunday would be the dominant German&#8217;s eighth on the trot, breaking the old record set by his countryman Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>Still, many do not give new quadruple world champion Vettel the credit that Marko believes he deserves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always hear Mercedes say they have the best driver pairing in formula one,&#8221; he told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vettel alone is better than Rosberg and Hamilton together,&#8221; Marko charged.\u00a0 &#8220;This is a fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian is referring to the fact that Vettel has 347 points so far in 2013, while Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg&#8217;s combined tally is just 334.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel is single-handedly better than Mercedes&#8217; entire driver lineup. That is the provocative claim of Red Bull&#8217;s always blunt and outspoken Dr Helmut Marko, as Austin polesitter Vettel prepares to break another record on Sunday. Another win on Sunday would be the dominant German&#8217;s eighth on the trot, breaking the old record set by &#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":[1628,5262,5340,154,92,4,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922"}],"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=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19923,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions\/19923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}