{"id":3801,"date":"2010-03-27T08:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T12:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2010-03-27T08:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T12:35:23","slug":"saturday-news-briefs-from-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/saturday-news-briefs-from-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday news briefs from Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mark Webber thrilled a big crowd of his countrymen at Albert Park on Saturday afternoon by setting the quickest time in the pre-qualifying practice session.\u00a0 <\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His Red Bull set more than one lap good enough for the top spot, two tenths ahead of Fernando Alonso&#8217;s Ferrari as well as Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne&#8217;s weather conditions are cooler, windier and darker than on Friday, and a forecast on the TV monitor in the media centre said showers are possible on Saturday for the time of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood actor John Travolta, who is an ambassador for the race&#8217;s title sponsor Qantas, arrived at Albert Park just before Saturday&#8217;s practice session.\u00a0 Travolta, who will wave the chequered flag late on Sunday, has his own 707 jet in the airline&#8217;s 1960s livery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>With Saturday&#8217;s paddock abuzz with news of Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s brush with the local police, and the British media unsure whether to lambast or defend the 25-year-old, Mark Webber cheekily advised the 2008 world champion to take some driving tips &#8220;from Tiger Woods&#8221;.\u00a0 But Australian GP organiser Ron Walker defended Hamilton: &#8220;He spends a lot of his time talking to young people about road safety.\u00a0 I think he can be forgiven for this indiscretion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Nico Hulkenberg was fined EUR1800 for exceeding the pitlane speed limit by 8.6kph in Saturday&#8217;s practice session<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber thrilled a big crowd of his countrymen at Albert Park on Saturday afternoon by setting the quickest time in the pre-qualifying practice session.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/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":[5339,805,5262,5261,5340,165,1160],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801"}],"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=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}