{"id":5782,"date":"2010-05-27T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:19:57","slug":"damaged-chassis-explains-recent-struggle-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/damaged-chassis-explains-recent-struggle-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Damaged chassis &#8216;explains&#8217; recent struggle &#8211; Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel on Thursday refused to deny that unspecified damage to his chassis caused him to trail his teammate in Spain and Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was those back-to-back races that Mark Webber won commandingly from pole, and after which Red Bull decided to replace the sister RB6 driven by 22-year-old Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it (the damage) explains a lot and on top of that we found also other things that weren&#8217;t in proper shape anymore,&#8221; he told reporters in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to specify how the damage affected his recent pace, Vettel added: &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whereas he (Webber) always seemed to be quite happy, I wasn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Webber was also asked at Istanbul Park about Vettel&#8217;s chassis switch, and how the situation might explain the outcome of the Spain\/Monaco double header.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously I wasn&#8217;t driving his car, so it&#8217;s difficult to know, to be honest.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see,&#8221; said the Australian.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel on Thursday refused to deny that unspecified damage to his chassis caused him to trail his teammate in Spain and Monaco.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782"}],"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=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}