{"id":5004,"date":"2010-05-05T07:08:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T11:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2010-05-05T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:50:07","slug":"todt-plays-down-hamilton-behaviour-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/todt-plays-down-hamilton-behaviour-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Todt plays down Hamilton behaviour in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s existing &#8220;image&#8221; that has depicted him as an overly aggressive driver, according to FIA president Jean Todt.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Addressing Spanish media on Tuesday, the Frenchman was asked about the McLaren driver&#8217;s behaviour in the Shanghai pitlane two weeks ago, following several other incidents so far in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is still very unpopular within Spain, and Todt noted that the 25-year-old &#8220;has an image that is perhaps more unfavourable than others due to his coexistence with Alonso&#8221; at McLaren in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman then refused to answer when asked if Hamilton is treated preferentially by the FIA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the (China) pitlane, it was not just Hamilton but Vettel was also there,&#8221; said Todt.\u00a0 &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if you can say he is any different in terms of behaviour than the others, and it is the stewards who must decide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s existing &#8220;image&#8221; that has depicted him as an overly aggressive driver, according to FIA president Jean Todt.<\/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":[5262,5300,5261,5340,284,154],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004"}],"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=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}