{"id":21691,"date":"2014-04-21T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T10:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21691"},"modified":"2014-04-21T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T10:58:17","slug":"alonso-says-china-podium-belongs-to-domenicali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-says-china-podium-belongs-to-domenicali\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso says China podium belongs to Domenicali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has suggested Ferrari&#8217;s new boss cannot take the credit for his breakthrough podium in China.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Fernando-Alonso-6.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando-Alonso-6\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" \/>After a difficult start to F1&#8217;s new era for the Italian team, Spaniard Alonso on Sunday said the Shanghai race reminded him of 2012, arguably his very best season in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Bahrain, we were one minute behind the leaders, ninth and tenth and today we are on the podium, seven seconds behind Nico (Rosberg),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>China was the very first race under the new reign of Marco Mattiacci, who was drafted in just last week to replace the suddenly-departed Stefano Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p>But Alonso dedicated his result to Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this podium should be dedicated to Stefano, as everything we do up to July will also be the result of his efforts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the podium, it was undoubtedly a tough weekend overall for Mattiacci, so tired after the surprising Maranello shakeup that he was seldom seen in the paddock without sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>He faces an uphill battle not only to earn the trust of Alonso, but also his new rivals.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the former Ferrari North America chief in Shanghai, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said: &#8220;I&#8217;d never heard of him before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has suggested Ferrari&#8217;s new boss cannot take the credit for his breakthrough podium in China. After a difficult start to F1&#8217;s new era for the Italian team, Spaniard Alonso on Sunday said the Shanghai race reminded him of 2012, arguably his very best season in the sport. &#8220;In Bahrain, we were one minute &#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":[5262,149,93,5340,1335,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691"}],"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=21691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21692,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691\/revisions\/21692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}