{"id":5472,"date":"2010-05-16T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2010-05-16T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:53:00","slug":"schumacher-brawn-confident-alonso-pass-was-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-brawn-confident-alonso-pass-was-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher, Brawn, confident Alonso pass was legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn are confident there will no post-race penalty applied by the stewards in the wake of a controversial last-lap incident.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The seven time world champion passed Ferrari&#8217;s Fernando Alonso at the last corner of Sunday&#8217;s Monaco grand prix, after the safety car that had been deployed for the Jarno Trulli\/Karun Chandhok crash pulled into the pits.<\/p>\n<p>There is a new rule in 2010 that allows overtaking between the safety car line and the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Where the confusion arises is that if a race finishes under the safety car, there is no overtaking allowed even though the safety car itself pulls into the pits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were advised before the end of the race that the safety car was coming in,&#8221; Brawn told the BBC.\u00a0 &#8220;There was no instruction that the race was going to finish under the safety car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher told German television RTL: &#8220;We saw the message &#8216;Track Clear&#8217; officially on screen two.\u00a0 So that means the safety car goes in and the race is back on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old laughed that it is &#8220;interesting&#8221; that his former nemesis Damon Hill is the driver-steward this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn are confident there will no post-race penalty applied by the stewards in the wake of a controversial last-lap incident.<\/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":[1055,5262,149,5261,5340,92,1534,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472"}],"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=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}