{"id":3413,"date":"2010-03-18T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2010-03-18T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:33:12","slug":"massa-not-an-enemy-after-bahrain-pass-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-not-an-enemy-after-bahrain-pass-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa &#8216;not an enemy&#8217; after Bahrain pass &#8211; Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">After a winter of warnings about Ferrari&#8217;s new &#8220;Latin&#8221; driver combination, even an overtaking move at the first race did not threaten the apparent harmony between Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, the Italian team&#8217;s new Spanish driver with two titles already under his belt, passed Massa from third on the grid at the first corner in Bahrain and went on to win the race.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo played down the significance of the move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team comes first, before the two drivers,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by Spain&#8217;s El Pais.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, 28, played down claims the pass on Massa was important, in order to &#8220;throw down a marker&#8221; to his Brazilian teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is not very important,&#8221; he answered.\u00a0 &#8220;First of all, he&#8217;s not an enemy, maybe a rival but not an enemy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And of course Felipe &#8211; with the same car &#8211; there will be races that one of us will win and some races that the other will win,&#8221; added Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian press does not entirely agree, with La Stampa noting that Bahrain was a demonstration that Alonso &#8220;wants to be the boss&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a winter of warnings about Ferrari&#8217;s new &#8220;Latin&#8221; driver combination, even an overtaking move at the first race did not threaten the apparent harmony between Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso. \u00a0 Alonso, the Italian team&#8217;s new Spanish driver with two titles already under his belt, passed Massa from third on the grid at 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":[5262,130,149,93,148],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413"}],"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=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}