{"id":2977,"date":"2010-03-08T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2010-03-08T13:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:40:57","slug":"vettel-names-2010-car-luscious-liz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-names-2010-car-luscious-liz\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel names 2010 car &#8216;Luscious Liz&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sebastian Vettel has named his new RB6 formula one car &#8216;Luscious Liz&#8217;.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old German and 2009 championship runner-up famously called last year&#8217;s Red Bull &#8216;Kate&#8217;s Dirty Sister&#8217; &#8212; because it was faster and more aggressive than its predecessor &#8216;Kate&#8217;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His 2008 Toro Rosso was called Julie.<\/p>\n<p>Giving his cars a female name, emblazoned on the &#8216;dashboard&#8217; of the single seater, is now one of Vettel&#8217;s several F1-related superstitions.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel religiously steps into his cars and dismounts from the left-hand side, and slides a lucky coin behind the laces of his boot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I could design a superstar, Sebastian would be the result,&#8221; F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone writes in the latest edition of Auto Bild Motorsport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is exactly what formula one needs: a young, super-talented driver who is intelligent but not arrogant, popular with the public and good with the media, normal but still very professional,&#8221; added the 79-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has named his new RB6 formula one car &#8216;Luscious Liz&#8217;. \u00a0 The 22-year-old German and 2009 championship runner-up famously called last year&#8217;s Red Bull &#8216;Kate&#8217;s Dirty Sister&#8217; &#8212; because it was faster and more aggressive than its predecessor &#8216;Kate&#8217;.<\/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":[59,5262,867,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977"}],"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=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}