{"id":4143,"date":"2010-04-04T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2010-04-05T06:45:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:45:06","slug":"massa-leads-title-despite-no-wins-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-leads-title-despite-no-wins-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa leads title despite no wins in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">With a seventh place on Sunday, and no race wins yet in the bag, Felipe Massa took the lead of the drivers&#8217; world championship at Sepang.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian&#8217;s Ferrari teammate Fernando Alonso, who was the previous title leader, had a downshift problem throughout the hot Malaysian race, and then retired with a very smoky engine failure.<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Alonso is now two points behind, and so too is Sepang winner Sebastian Vettel, who after two technical problems in Bahrain and Melbourne finally won a race.<\/p>\n<p>The sister Red Bull driven by pole sitter Mark Webber was second, prompting the RB6&#8217;s designer Adrian Newey to collect the constructors&#8217; trophy, after a tough couple of weeks facing criticism that his cars are fast but fragile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adrian does not design wheel nuts (Melbourne) or spark plugs (Bahrain),&#8221; team boss Christian Horner told BBC television.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Massa, Alonso and Vettel, the next contenders for the drivers&#8217; title are also closely bunched, with Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton\u00a0 and Robert Kubica all within 9 points of the lead.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a seventh place on Sunday, and no race wins yet in the bag, Felipe Massa took the lead of the drivers&#8217; world championship at Sepang.<\/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":[128,5262,130,149,93,5261,5340,153,5367,154,528,1178,34,4,1216,129,96,164,5336,1188,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143"}],"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=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}