{"id":3845,"date":"2010-03-28T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2010-03-28T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T13:41:15","slug":"no-more-bore-rain-as-button-wins-australian-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-more-bore-rain-as-button-wins-australian-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"No more &#8216;Bore-rain&#8217; as Button wins Australian thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He finished off the podium, but Fernando Alonso is still leading the championship on Sunday night after a thrilling Australian grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rendering &#8216;Bore-rain&#8217; stories to history, the dark and drizzly skies contributed to an exciting Melbourne race, but it was a decidedly bad event for the previously dominant Red Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>Local hero Mark Webber had a scruffy race to ninth and had to apologise to Lewis Hamilton for a late collision, while Sebastian Vettel once again had reliability trouble from the lead.<\/p>\n<p>A spark plug had been his foil two weeks ago, while in Australia he skidded into the gravel with a brake failure.<\/p>\n<p>Among his first comments to the German-speaking press was the well-known curse &#8220;Scheisse&#8221;, while to the English reporters Vettel said the frustration &#8220;breaks my balls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nobody&#8217;s fault, but we need to get on top of it and make sure that we see the chequered flag in Malaysia,&#8221; the 22-year-old added.<\/p>\n<p>Also unhappy was McLaren&#8217;s Hamilton, who while his winning teammate Jenson Button made an excellent early strategy call to pit for slicks, was heard on the radio to criticise the decisions made for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The strategy was not right,&#8221; said the Briton.\u00a0 &#8220;Everyone else in front of me did one stop and I did two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Martin Whitmarsh acknowledged that McLaren &#8220;made a team call which disadvantaged&#8221; 25-year-old Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He finished off the podium, but Fernando Alonso is still leading the championship on Sunday night after a thrilling Australian grand prix. \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":[1168,5339,805,1100,5262,130,149,93,5261,5340,153,154,165,5284,5355,55,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845"}],"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=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}