{"id":21932,"date":"2014-05-14T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21932"},"modified":"2014-05-14T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:03:08","slug":"vettels-old-chassis-was-bent-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettels-old-chassis-was-bent-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel&#8217;s old chassis was &#8216;bent&#8217; &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chassis used by Sebastian Vettel in the first four races of 2014 was bent, according to Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/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\/Sebastian-Vettel-5.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian-Vettel-5\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/>The reigning quadruple world champion notably struggled alongside fresh-faced teammate Daniel Ricciardo until Spain, where he spectacularly scythed through the field and declared for the first time that driving in 2014 is &#8220;fun&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although no obvious chassis flaw was found between the Chinese and Spanish grand prix, Red Bull nonetheless put Vettel at the wheel of the winter testing chassis in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think it made a difference,&#8221; the German declared after the race.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt said further investigations have been taking place at Milton Keynes after Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed: &#8220;The chassis he (Vettel) used in the first four races was in fact crooked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt said Vettel, the winner of the last nine grands prix of 2013 on the trot, had suspected something was wrong with his car after China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A second down (to Ricciardo) was too much.\u00a0 I had not forgotten how to drive,&#8221; said the German.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chassis used by Sebastian Vettel in the first four races of 2014 was bent, according to Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport. The reigning quadruple world champion notably struggled alongside fresh-faced teammate Daniel Ricciardo until Spain, where he spectacularly scythed through the field and declared for the first time that driving in 2014 is &#8220;fun&#8221;. &#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\/21932"}],"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=21932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21933,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21932\/revisions\/21933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}