{"id":4544,"date":"2010-04-17T06:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/formula-1\/vettel-expects-rain-on-chinese-gp-race-day\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:35:16","slug":"vettel-expects-rain-on-chinese-gp-race-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-expects-rain-on-chinese-gp-race-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel expects rain on Chinese GP race-day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sebastian Vettel drove a spellbinding lap for pole position in Shanghai, and immediately turned his eyes to the skies for Sunday&#8217;s Chinese grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at the weather, it (the forecast) looks quite bad.\u00a0 It will rain, the only question is when,&#8221; said the Red Bull driver, two tenths clear of his teammate and fellow front row sitter Mark Webber.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old German, however, warned that his team is &#8220;well armed&#8221; for either dry or wet weather.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the Red Bulls, Ferrari (Fernando Alonso), Mercedes (Nico Rosberg) and McLaren (Jenson Button) all qualified within a tenth.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton, another fraction of a second behind in sixth place, had been the pacesetter throughout the initial segments of qualifying, and also on Friday afternoon, so was disappointed with just sixth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t understand what was wrong with the car.\u00a0 We have to go and analyse it,&#8221; said the 2008 world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Button hinted that McLaren might share Vettel&#8217;s views about the weather on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The setup we have for the car is probably better for the wet conditions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel drove a spellbinding lap for pole position in Shanghai, and immediately turned his eyes to the skies for Sunday&#8217;s Chinese grand prix.<\/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":[1275,1270,1221,5262,130,149,5261,5340,153,154,165,92,4,129,164,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544"}],"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=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}