{"id":5205,"date":"2010-05-09T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2010-05-09T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:07:38","slug":"hamilton-slips-down-standings-in-spain-tyre-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-slips-down-standings-in-spain-tyre-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton slips down standings in Spain tyre blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton was the big loser as Barcelona&#8217;s Circuit de Catalunya hosted the Spanish grand prix on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The McLaren driver was running second behind dominant winner Mark Webber when a tyre failure pitched him into the barrier on the penultimate lap.<\/p>\n<p>It means he is now just seventh in the drivers&#8217; championship, 21 points behind his teammate and title leader Jenson Button, who had a bad race in Spain stuck behind Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>If Hamilton&#8217;s tyre had held on for another two laps, the Briton would now be just three points off the lead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could have been (caused by) debris caught in the rim,&#8221; McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh speculated.<\/p>\n<p>Webber aside, the big winner on Sunday was the local hero Fernando Alonso, who not only benefitted from Hamilton&#8217;s failure but also Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s brake problem.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso is just 3 points behind championship leader Button, with Vettel and Webber driving a dominant car but just third and fourth respectively in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall the weekend has been so-so for us but in terms of results it&#8217;s fantastic,&#8221; said Ferrari&#8217;s Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton was the big loser as Barcelona&#8217;s Circuit de Catalunya hosted the Spanish grand prix on Sunday.<\/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":[5326,5262,149,5261,5340,153,154,165,491,5284,34,92,129,164,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205"}],"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=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}