{"id":3930,"date":"2010-03-30T06:55:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2010-03-30T06:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:53:47","slug":"burnout-car-for-sale-as-hamilton-puts-australia-behind-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/burnout-car-for-sale-as-hamilton-puts-australia-behind-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnout car for sale as Hamilton puts Australia behind him"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Despite Lewis Hamilton being crassly branded a &#8220;d**khead&#8221; by the local roads minister, the car he used to do burnouts before it was seized by police outside Albert Park last Friday is now a sought-after item.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Mercedes-Benz Australia spokesman said &#8220;more than half a dozen&#8221; phone calls have been made by dealers on behalf of potential buyers for the $150,000 silver C63 AMG.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that McLaren paid the fee to have the car released from the police garage on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, the British team&#8217;s 25-year-old driver said he was no longer angry about being told to make an extra pitstop last Sunday, despite saying on the radio that it was a &#8220;freaking terrible idea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team has explained to me their reasoning behind the second pitstop, and I can understand what they were trying to do in trying to cover both Mark and Nico for later in the race,&#8221; said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Sauber&#8217;s C29 car was hailed in the pre-season for being the kindest on its tyres, but Pedro de la Rosa late on Sunday was ruing the decision not to make a second tyre pitstop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the end I really had no rear tyres left.\u00a0 I was absolutely helpless when Michael and Jaime came in the end to overtake me,&#8221; said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, meanwhile, is now relaxing in Malaysia, relieved that the burnout saga and the fallout of the botched race strategy will soon be replaced by the buildup to this weekend&#8217;s grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an interesting weekend.\u00a0 I am glad to be back in Malaysia and to be having a bit of space,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a great few days in Australia,&#8221; Hamilton admitted.<\/p>\n<p>He denied that the events are proof that he needs to quickly appoint a replacement for his former manager Anthony Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m leaving it for a while.\u00a0 I am happy at the moment.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a big transition, and I have a lot of good people around me.\u00a0 There is no need to rush,&#8221; said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Lewis Hamilton being crassly branded a &#8220;d**khead&#8221; by the local roads minister, the car he used to do burnouts before it was seized by police outside Albert Park last Friday is now a sought-after item. \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":[805,5262,5261,5340,154],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930"}],"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=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}