{"id":4601,"date":"2010-04-18T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T13:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2010-04-18T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T13:12:22","slug":"hamilton-and-vettel-reprimanded-for-pitlane-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-and-vettel-reprimanded-for-pitlane-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton and Vettel reprimanded for pitlane clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel escaped with official reprimands but no actual penalties after their pitlane incident during the Chinese grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Stewards, including former F1 driver Alex Wurz, deliberated the incident after the 56-year-old race.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton attempted to race the German both on the pit entry and exit, and Vettel moved over on the Briton in the pitlane.<\/p>\n<p>In separate stewards reports, the officials said Hamilton and Vettel drove &#8220;in a dangerous manner&#8221; and were issued the &#8220;penalty of a reprimand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s Hamilton said in the post-race press conference on Sunday that he was not aware the incident was being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as I am concerned I think it was okay.\u00a0 We touched wheels but otherwise I think it was fair,&#8221; said the 25-year-old.\u00a0 &#8220;It was good racing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vettel, however, was upset with Hamilton&#8217;s driving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why he was keen to touch me,&#8221; said the Red Bull driver.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel escaped with official reprimands but no actual penalties after their pitlane incident during the 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":[1275,1270,1221,5262,5300,5261,5340,154,5284,129,164,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601"}],"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=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}