{"id":5132,"date":"2010-05-08T06:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T10:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2010-05-08T06:51:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T10:51:24","slug":"alonso-having-fun-with-provocative-comments-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-having-fun-with-provocative-comments-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso &#8216;having fun&#8217; with provocative comments &#8211; Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent comments by Fernando Alonso are an attempt to shift attention from the Spaniard, according to Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the approach to this weekend&#8217;s Spanish grand prix, the Ferrari driver provocatively said Lewis Hamilton is close to being penalised by race stewards for driving infractions.<\/p>\n<p>And the double world champion also said he senses relationship &#8220;problems&#8221; between Hamilton and his McLaren teammate Button.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fernando is having a bit of fun with everyone,&#8221; Button said in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s trying to move the focus away from himself a little bit.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very happy and I think Lewis is.\u00a0 We&#8217;re getting on really well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Button also sided with Hamilton in disapproving of Alonso&#8217;s pit entry passing manoeuvre on his Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa three weeks ago in China.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian team and its drivers have dismissed the rumblings about the incident, but Button admitted he would &#8220;be gutted if my teammate did that to me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent comments by Fernando Alonso are an attempt to shift attention from the Spaniard, according to Jenson Button.<\/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":[1221,5262,149,5300,5261,5340,153,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132"}],"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=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}