{"id":5230,"date":"2010-05-10T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T10:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2010-05-10T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T10:35:11","slug":"red-bull-asked-vettel-to-quit-spanish-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-asked-vettel-to-quit-spanish-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull asked Vettel to quit Spanish GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has revealed he was asked to pull out of the race before finishing the Spanish grand prix in third place.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull driver suffered a braking problem with 15 laps of the Barcelona race still to run, and made a pitstop so the damage could be inspected.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanics and engineers noticed damage to a brake disc before sending the 22-year-old German back onto the circuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I got back out the team told me that I should quit the race,&#8221; Vettel said in an interview with Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said the risk because of the broken brake was too great.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked them if that (retiring) was really necessary or whether I could just drive slowly and pick up some points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got no answer,&#8221; Vettel continued.\u00a0 &#8220;So I drove.\u00a0 In the middle of the last corner I then got the message &#8216;keep going, but be careful&#8217;, but it was too late anyway.\u00a0 I was already past the pit entry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vettel said he managed to finish the race by shifting the brake bias all the way to the rear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were pretty worried on the pitwall and I was constantly reminded to drive more slowly,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel has revealed he was asked to pull out of the race before finishing the Spanish grand prix in third place.<\/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":[129,164,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230"}],"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=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}