{"id":20524,"date":"2013-12-12T21:23:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20524"},"modified":"2013-12-12T21:23:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T02:23:48","slug":"vettel-alonso-to-sit-out-bahrain-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-alonso-to-sit-out-bahrain-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel, Alonso to sit out Bahrain test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World champion Sebastian Vettel, and 2013 runner-up Fernando Alonso, will not be testing tyres for Pirelli next week in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sebastian is currently on vacation,&#8221; Red Bull driver Vettel&#8217;s spokeswoman Britta Roeske told the Welt newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Four teams &#8211; Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Ferrari and Mercedes &#8211; are travelling to Bahrain with their 2013 cars to help Pirelli develop next year&#8217;s tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Roeske continued: &#8220;Sebastian has a difficult season behind him, and with all the new difficulties &#8211; the new technical regulations, for example &#8211; the time to the next season is not so great.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sebastian will reflect on the past season and prepare for the new one, but that is nothing different than what he has done in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will only reappear in public if there is an official Red Bull appointment, or at the first (official) tests&#8221; in late January, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Ferrari&#8217;s Alonso will also not be in Bahrain, with the Italian team confirming that Pedro de la Rosa and Jules Bianchi will do the tyre work instead.<\/p>\n<p>And a report by Speed Week said that while Mercedes&#8217; Bahrain lineup is unclear, 2014 racers Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniil Kvyat will be in action for Toro Rosso.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champion Sebastian Vettel, and 2013 runner-up Fernando Alonso, will not be testing tyres for Pirelli next week in Bahrain. &#8220;Sebastian is currently on vacation,&#8221; Red Bull driver Vettel&#8217;s spokeswoman Britta Roeske told the Welt newspaper. Four teams &#8211; Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Ferrari and Mercedes &#8211; are travelling to Bahrain with their 2013 cars &#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":[5262,149,5340,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524"}],"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=20524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20525,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524\/revisions\/20525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}