{"id":2672,"date":"2010-02-24T06:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2010-02-24T06:32:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:32:59","slug":"media-hits-back-after-ferraris-withering-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/media-hits-back-after-ferraris-withering-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Media hits back after Ferrari&#8217;s &#8216;withering attack&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A column posted on Ferrari&#8217;s official website on Tuesday caused more than a few raised eyebrows within the international media.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A response in Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport was headlined &#8216;Red card for Ferrari&#8217;, after the Italian team slammed formula one&#8217;s new and hopeful teams and blamed former FIA president Max Mosley for the loss of carmakers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have rarely read such nonsense,&#8221; wrote the magazine&#8217;s columnist Michael Schmidt, slamming the attack as a &#8220;far-fetched conspiracy theory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt&#8217;s article said the withdrawal and restructuring of F1&#8217;s carmakers had nothing to do with Mosley, who was accused by Ferrari of having waged a &#8216;Holy War&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt acknowledged that there might have been &#8220;better candidates&#8221; than the struggling USF1 and Campos, but argued that F1 needed new teams even though Lotus and Virgin &#8220;cannot be expected to be fast right away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Daily Telegraph called Ferrari&#8217;s rant a &#8220;withering attack&#8221;, the French news agency AFP said the Maranello outfit had &#8220;savaged&#8221; the FIA, and even Italy&#8217;s La Gazzetta dello Sport said the column was &#8220;bitter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo said Ferrari &#8220;attacks the new kids&#8221;, and London&#8217;s Times newspaper said the Prancing Horse is blaming &#8220;Mosley for (the new teams&#8217;) teething problems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A column posted on Ferrari&#8217;s official website on Tuesday caused more than a few raised eyebrows within the international media. \u00a0 A response in Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport was headlined &#8216;Red card for Ferrari&#8217;, after the Italian team slammed formula one&#8217;s new and hopeful teams and blamed former FIA president Max Mosley for the &#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":[5262,93,803],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672"}],"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=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}