{"id":5667,"date":"2010-05-24T07:25:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2010-05-24T07:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:25:29","slug":"williams-confirms-manhole-cover-caused-barrichello-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-confirms-manhole-cover-caused-barrichello-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams confirms manhole cover caused Barrichello crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams has confirmed that a loose manhole cover caused Rubens Barrichello&#8217;s high speed crash during the recent Monaco grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With technical director Sam Michael initially diagnosing a rear suspension failure, Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport subsequently reported that an investigation showed that the left rear wheel was in fact damaged by a loose drain cover.<\/p>\n<p>In a media statement, the British team has now confirmed that a manhole cover at turn two &#8220;was spun up and hit the rear left wheel, causing failure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This incident has been reported to the FIA,&#8221; added Williams.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams has confirmed that a loose manhole cover caused Rubens Barrichello&#8217;s high speed crash during the recent Monaco grand prix.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,544,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667"}],"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=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}