{"id":3950,"date":"2010-03-30T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2010-03-30T20:42:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:42:06","slug":"brake-supplier-not-taking-blame-for-vettel-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/brake-supplier-not-taking-blame-for-vettel-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Brake supplier not taking blame for Vettel spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Red Bull brake supplier Brembo has issued a statement to clarify that its products did not cause Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s retirement in Melbourne.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pole sitter Vettel, 22, spun out of the Australian GP and said immediately on the radio that the RB6 had suffered &#8220;braking failure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the team&#8217;s subsequent press release, the German said only that he had &#8220;some sort of failure&#8221; with the front left wheel, with boss Christian Horner adding that the problem was a &#8220;wheel related issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We then reported that a late night post-race analysis in the Albert Park garage showed that the wheel mounting had been damaged due to a vibrating wheel nut.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike in Bahrain, where Red Bull publicly clarified that a failed spark plug rather than a broken exhaust had affected Vettel&#8217;s car, the team did not issue a press release to confirm the report.<\/p>\n<p>With other publications still repeating Vettel&#8217;s early claim that the brakes were the culprit, Brembo issued a press release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Red Bull Racing has confirmed that Sebastian Vettel retired from the Australian grand prix after the torque drive between the front left axle and wheel was lost,&#8221; read the release.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian company also said Vettel&#8217;s wheel nut had been &#8220;correctly tightened at the pitstop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull brake supplier Brembo has issued a statement to clarify that its products did not cause Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s retirement 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":[805,1185,128,5262,5261,5340,5355,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950"}],"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=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}