{"id":4794,"date":"2010-04-26T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2010-04-26T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:22:39","slug":"sponsor-insures-alonsos-thumbs-for-10m-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sponsor-insures-alonsos-thumbs-for-10m-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor insures Alonso&#8217;s thumbs for 10m euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">During an event for Spanish team sponsor Santander on Monday, it was announced that Fernando Alonso&#8217;s thumbs have been insured.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bank said the Ferrari driver&#8217;s life as well as his thumbs &#8211; presumably to safeguard his ability to confidently greet his fans at grands prix with positivity &#8211; have been insured to the tune of 10 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>More pertinently, he said he is happy with his start to the 2010 season, as he trails championship leader Jenson Button by 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t happy with things on Sunday night in Shanghai, but now, with a cool head, I can be really satisfied,&#8221; said Alonso, 28, at the event near Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t always gain what we could have according to our potential, but we&#8217;re fighting for the title and this is what counts more than anything else,&#8221; added the Spaniard, who said that in 2008 and 2009 with Renault he &#8220;knew&#8221; he would not win those titles.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an event for Spanish team sponsor Santander on Monday, it was announced that Fernando Alonso&#8217;s thumbs have been insured.<\/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":[5262,149,5261,5340,151],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794"}],"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=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}