{"id":20690,"date":"2014-01-15T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20690"},"modified":"2014-01-15T07:13:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:13:21","slug":"vettels-number-5-not-schumacher-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettels-number-5-not-schumacher-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel&#8217;s number 5 not Schumacher tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has explained the reasoning behind picking the number 5 for the rest of his formula one career.<\/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\" \/>As world champion, the Red Bull driver will &#8211; for the fourth consecutive time &#8211; carry the coveted number 1 in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But if he fails to win a fifth title this season, Vettel has chosen to revert to the number 5 for 2015 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I chose it because I was so successful in karts in 2001 with the number 5,&#8221; the German told Sport Bild, &#8220;and I had it in 2010 when I became world champion for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, several other drivers have taken number 5 to the title,&#8221; Vettel, a keen student of F1 history, added, &#8220;like Michael Schumacher and Nigel Mansell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sport Bild explained, however, that Vettel had already selected his number prior to Schumacher&#8217;s skiing fall, so that it cannot be regarded as a specific tribute.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, the FIA invited drivers to make their choices between 2 and 99, and Vettel&#8217;s countryman Adrian Sutil opted for the latter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The explanation is very simple,&#8221; Sutil explained.\u00a0 &#8220;In my life, everything should be the maximum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has explained the reasoning behind picking the number 5 for the rest of his formula one career. As world champion, the Red Bull driver will &#8211; for the fourth consecutive time &#8211; carry the coveted number 1 in 2014. But if he fails to win a fifth title this season, Vettel has chosen &#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":[5311,5262,5300,5340,92,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690"}],"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=20690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20691,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions\/20691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}