{"id":21393,"date":"2014-03-27T06:08:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21393"},"modified":"2014-03-27T06:08:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T10:08:14","slug":"great-vettel-finally-wins-laureus-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/great-vettel-finally-wins-laureus-award\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Great&#8217; Vettel finally wins Laureus award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has finally won the coveted Laureus world sportsman of the year award.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Sebastian-Vettel-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Sebastian-Vettel-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>It was the Red Bull driver&#8217;s fifth nomination since he began to dominate formula one with Red Bull several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to an official Laureus statement issued after Wednesday&#8217;s gala ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, only his 2013 triumph saw him &#8220;join motor racing legends Juan Manuel Fangio, Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost&#8221; in winning four titles, &#8220;but he did it more quickly than them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be nominated for the award is a great honour for me and to win the award is truly very special,&#8221; Vettel said after receiving the award in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is totally a very special moment for me as I can sit among the great sporting legends,&#8221; he told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Laureus statement said Vettel, 26, is now &#8220;one of the greatest drivers of all time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel beat fellow nominees Usain Bolt and Mo Farah, both athletes, as well as basketball&#8217;s Lebron James, tennis&#8217; Rafael Nadal and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has finally won the coveted Laureus world sportsman of the year award. It was the Red Bull driver&#8217;s fifth nomination since he began to dominate formula one with Red Bull several years ago. But, according to an official Laureus statement issued after Wednesday&#8217;s gala ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, only his 2013 triumph saw &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[375,4843,5262,5340,989,705,4844,92,4232,2803,164,4845],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393"}],"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=21393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21394,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions\/21394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}