{"id":3934,"date":"2010-03-30T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2010-03-30T06:58:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:58:27","slug":"horner-insists-title-not-over-for-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/horner-insists-title-not-over-for-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner insists title not over for Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to Niki Lauda, Red Bull could look back on the first two rounds of 2010 and rue precisely where the team blew the world championship.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back pole sitter Sebastian Vettel left Melbourne on a direct flight to Malaysia on Monday, after retiring from the lead of the Australian grand prix with a wheel-mounting problem caused by a loose wheel nut.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks earlier, also whilst leading in the dominant RB6, he dropped to fourth place with a failed spark plug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be consequences,&#8221; triple world champion Lauda told the German newspaper Bild, in an article headlined &#8220;Vettel mad at his Schrott (Scrap)-Bull&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Added Lauda: &#8220;Red Bull can forget the title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But team boss Christian Horner has urged Vettel&#8217;s fans not to &#8220;panic&#8221;, arguing that it is not the end of the world for the 22-year-old to be travelling to Kuala Lumpur with a 25-point title deficit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know we have got a fast car and I would far rather have a fast car than a slow car.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a long season,&#8221; the Briton is quoted as saying by The Sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is still a long way to go and the season will have many different twists and turns,&#8221; added Horner.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Niki Lauda, Red Bull could look back on the first two rounds of 2010 and rue precisely where the team blew the world championship. \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":[128,5262,5261,5340,598,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934"}],"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=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}