{"id":3747,"date":"2010-03-25T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2010-03-25T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:57:33","slug":"vettel-scoffs-at-dennis-low-fuel-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-scoffs-at-dennis-low-fuel-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel scoffs at Dennis&#8217; &#8216;low fuel&#8217; theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sebastian Vettel on Thursday scoffed at Ron Dennis&#8217; suggestion that Red Bull did not tell the truth about its problem in the Bahrain season opener two weeks ago.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having initially said a failed exhaust was the reason for the German&#8217;s slowed pace, the team later clarified that it was in fact a spark plug problem.<\/p>\n<p>But Dennis, the former McLaren team boss and ongoing chairman of the Woking based group, speculated last week that Vettel may actually have been running low on fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe Ron Dennis wanted to attract attention with his theory, because otherwise no one asks for his opinion anymore,&#8221; Vettel, 22, is quoted as saying from Melbourne by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>To reporters at Albert Park, the Bahrain pole sitter and early race leader reiterated that his problem was caused by a spark plug with a broken tip.<\/p>\n<p>So why did he pull to the side of the track immediately after the chequered flag, if he had not run out of fuel?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because at the time I thought the exhaust was broken and I didn&#8217;t want to do any more damage,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel on Thursday scoffed at Ron Dennis&#8217; suggestion that Red Bull did not tell the truth about its problem in the Bahrain season opener two weeks ago.<\/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":[5262,317,880,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747"}],"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=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}