{"id":2405,"date":"2010-02-12T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2010-02-12T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:15:32","slug":"alonso-calm-amid-massas-spanish-media-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-calm-amid-massas-spanish-media-spat\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso calm amid Massa&#8217;s Spanish media spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso pleaded ignorance on Thursday when asked about an erupting controversy between Felipe Massa and the Spanish press.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian Massa, who is Ferrari newcomer Alonso&#8217;s 2010 teammate, was quoted in an interview this week as saying the Spaniard should work to better integrate with the Maranello based team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was also quoted as saying that Alonso is no longer F1&#8217;s best driver, due to the return of Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo hit back at Massa in a headline: &#8220;Por que no te callas?&#8221; (Why don&#8217;t you shut up?&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said Massa is pushing hard against Alonso because he &#8220;does not want to go back to being a number two&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know what we&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; Alonso said at Thursday&#8217;s Jerez testing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine how much we worry about these things here in our team!\u00a0 I felt immediately at ease here in Ferrari and I&#8217;ve been warmly welcomed by everyone.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like being at home,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso pleaded ignorance on Thursday when asked about an erupting controversy between Felipe Massa and the Spanish press. \u00a0 Brazilian Massa, who is Ferrari newcomer Alonso&#8217;s 2010 teammate, was quoted in an interview this week as saying the Spaniard should work to better integrate with the Maranello based team.<\/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":[5262,130,149],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405"}],"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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}