{"id":21791,"date":"2014-05-05T06:49:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21791"},"modified":"2014-05-05T06:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:49:51","slug":"ricciardo-wants-fair-fight-with-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ricciardo-wants-fair-fight-with-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricciardo wants &#8216;fair fight&#8217; with Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo says he accepts the &#8220;responsibility&#8221; of sometimes having to &#8220;move over&#8221; for his Red Bull teammate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Daniel-Ricciardo-2.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel-Ricciardo-2\" width=\"437\" height=\"291\" \/>Team orders is currently a hot topic inside the reigning world champion team, after reigning quadruple title winner Sebastian Vettel answered &#8220;tough luck&#8221; last time out in China when he was told to let Australian Ricciardo through.<\/p>\n<p>Ricciardo, however, said orders must be followed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not always nice if you are being told to move over.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not nice being that slower car, it&#8217;s frustrating,&#8221; he told the West Australian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(But) it is our responsibility to obey it, unless it&#8217;s completely out of order and then we can obviously try and put up a fight and give our reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the team are doing all the calculations on the pitwall during the race and you have to respect what they&#8217;re saying,&#8221; Ricciardo insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Some believe Vettel&#8217;s initial reluctance to play the team game in China was due to the tension created by Red Bull newcomer Ricciardo&#8217;s superior pace so far in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But Ricciardo thinks that even in the context of his huge recent achievements, Vettel is up for a fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know it ourselves and even told each other that we want to race hard,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to race the best version of Seb and he wants to race the best version of me.\u00a0 At the end of the day I think we&#8217;ll both respect whoever&#8217;s done a better job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Seb has done a better job this year, I won&#8217;t like it, but I&#8217;ll definitely respect him for it and give him the credit he deserves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s a two-way street.\u00a0 We understand what a fair fight is and we enjoy that,&#8221; added Ricciardo.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo says he accepts the &#8220;responsibility&#8221; of sometimes having to &#8220;move over&#8221; for his Red Bull teammate. Team orders is currently a hot topic inside the reigning world champion team, after reigning quadruple title winner Sebastian Vettel answered &#8220;tough luck&#8221; last time out in China when he was told to let Australian Ricciardo through. &#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":[1096,5262,5340,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791"}],"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=21791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21792,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions\/21792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}