{"id":3852,"date":"2010-03-28T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2010-03-28T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:05:36","slug":"vettel-defect-revealed-wheel-damaged-by-loose-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-defect-revealed-wheel-damaged-by-loose-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel defect revealed &#8211; wheel damaged by loose nut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In darkness at Albert Park very late on Sunday, Red Bull technicians identified the problem that ruined Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s charge to victory.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A simple spark plug cost the 22-year-old the Bahrain win two weeks ago, and now it is confirmed that a damaged wheel mounting due to a vibrating wheel nut was the cause of another foiled run from pole position.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport said the left front wheel nut worked loose and damaged the mounting, which then speared Vettel into the gravel and retirement under braking.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the garage inspection of the RB6 took just 15 minutes, involving head of engineering Ian Morgan, designer Adrian Newey and their boss Christian Horner.<\/p>\n<p>Suspecting a problem with the fitting of the wheel in the pitstop, Horner said: &#8220;In 6000 kilometres of testing nothing like this happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is small comfort for Vettel, who is now 25 points behind Fernando Alonso&#8217;s early title lead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course it is annoying.\u00a0 Yet another defect,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;I could be going to Malaysia with 50 points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In darkness at Albert Park very late on Sunday, Red Bull technicians identified the problem that ruined Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s charge to victory. \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":[396,5339,805,1100,128,5262,5261,5340,1170,5355,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852"}],"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=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}