{"id":4688,"date":"2010-04-21T06:57:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2010-04-21T06:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:52:48","slug":"hamilton-welcomes-more-moderate-stewards-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-welcomes-more-moderate-stewards-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton welcomes more moderate stewards in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lewis Hamilton has contradicted Martin Brundle&#8217;s claim that F1 stewards this year are being too lenient.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Former driver and British commentator Brundle said on Tuesday that Sebastian Vettel and Hamilton should have been penalised rather than merely reprimanded for their wheel-to-wheel pitlane stoush in China.<\/p>\n<p>Brundle also said Jenson Button should have received a penalty for unduly slowing behind the safety car in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>But after several years of harsh judgements from the stewards at grands prix, Hamilton said he welcomes the seemingly more hands-off approach of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Racing stewards this year have been the best that I have probably experienced in formula one, I think,&#8221; the Briton said at a sponsor event at Kyalami in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claims by his fellow drivers that the manoeuvres were dangerous, Hamilton was warned but not penalised for weaving in front of Vitaly Petrov in Malaysia two and a half weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More racing has been out there.\u00a0 You know there are drivers who are (now) not afraid to have a real battle with someone without having the worry of receiving the penalty,&#8221; added Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has contradicted Martin Brundle&#8217;s claim that F1 stewards this year are being too lenient.<\/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":[5262,1135,5300,5261,5340,154,322,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688"}],"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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}