{"id":4058,"date":"2010-04-02T08:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2010-04-02T08:19:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:19:43","slug":"alonso-does-not-back-todt-protocols-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-does-not-back-todt-protocols-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso does not back Todt &#8216;protocols&#8217; rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso has refused to back Jean Todt&#8217;s reported decision to publish a list of local &#8220;protocols&#8221; prior to each grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s brush with police in Melbourne, prompting Mark Webber to slam the &#8220;nanny state&#8221;, race promoter Ron Walker revealed that Todt will respond by issuing to teams a &#8220;list of what can be done in this country and the rules and regulations for the (other) places they visit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari driver Alonso is quoted as saying by Italy&#8217;s La Gazzetta dello Sport that he thought Todt&#8217;s rumoured reaction is &#8220;completely exaggerated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what happened with Hamilton, but if a 25-year-old guy is driving a sports car and makes a bit of noise with the tyres, and then we talk about it for a week and then make a &#8216;protocol&#8217; list, I think that&#8217;s an exaggeration,&#8221; said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, 28 &#8211; who was also captured by a mobile phone video camera speeding through the Melbourne streets last week &#8211; said it would not be right if the GPDA issued any sanctions against Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, it&#8217;s a personal situation and I don&#8217;t think we (the Grand Prix Drivers&#8217; Association) need to say anything,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>As for his own Melbourne indiscretion being captured and posted on YouTube, Alonso said: &#8220;The internet is a very good thing and also very bad; there are people who use it for the wrong reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has refused to back Jean Todt&#8217;s reported decision to publish a list of local &#8220;protocols&#8221; prior to each grand prix. \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":[5262,149,93,5261,5340,284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058"}],"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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}