{"id":3932,"date":"2010-03-30T06:59:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2010-03-30T06:56:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:56:33","slug":"schumachers-blocking-suspicion-nonsense-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumachers-blocking-suspicion-nonsense-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher&#8217;s blocking suspicion &#8216;nonsense&#8217; &#8211; Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso has revealed that Michael Schumacher suspected he deliberately held up the German during qualifying in Melbourne.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With their helmets on and Alonso still in the cockpit of his Ferrari, the pair had been spotted in animated discussion in Albert Park&#8217;s &#8216;parc ferme&#8217; area.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, formerly a five-time champion with Ferrari, explained to reporters that he had asked the Spaniard &#8220;whether the team had told him (he was on a flying lap) and he said no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Germany&#8217;s spox.com, Alonso adds: &#8220;Yes, he thought I had held him up intentionally on his fast lap.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could not see him in the mirrors and there was no info on the radio.\u00a0 So I was only able to move over after he was already there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also in the wake of the Australian GP, many of Alonso&#8217;s Spanish supporters were scathing of Ferrari&#8217;s decision not to move aside Felipe Massa so that the championship leader could challenge Robert Kubica for second place.<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Domenicali has confirmed that team orders are no longer in the team&#8217;s armoury, and Alonso told Spain&#8217;s El Pais newspaper that he did not want to upset his boss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it was another driver I would have tried, but it&#8217;s difficult to fight with your teammate,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;I thought of the boss and did nothing strange.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has revealed that Michael Schumacher suspected he deliberately held up the German during qualifying in Melbourne. \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":[805,5262,130,149,93,5261,5340,34,92,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932"}],"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=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}