{"id":6323,"date":"2010-06-14T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2010-06-14T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T10:56:08","slug":"german-rivals-unhappy-with-superstar-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/german-rivals-unhappy-with-superstar-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"German rivals unhappy with &#8216;superstar&#8217; Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be fair to say Sebastian Vettel is not on the Christmas card list of two of his countrymen and F1 rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran journalist Roger Benoit, long-time correspondent for the Swiss newspaper Blick, travelled to Montreal on the same Zurich flight as Vettel and Mercedes&#8217; Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>He said the pair were seated not a car&#8217;s length apart, but neither greeted one another nor exchanged a single word.<\/p>\n<p>Benoit said the reason for the freeze was &#8220;clear&#8221;: a few days earlier, Rosberg had said Vettel was definitely to blame for his crash with Red Bull teammate Mark Webber in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, after Sunday&#8217;s Canadian grand prix, 22-year-old Vettel triggered the temper of Force India driver Adrian Sutil.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel, he revealed to the media, had approached the 27-year-old and sarcastically asked if his rearview mirrors had fallen off during the Montreal race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He should be quiet.\u00a0 He thinks he&#8217;s a superstar,&#8221; Sutil is quoted as retorting.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be fair to say Sebastian Vettel is not on the Christmas card list of two of his countrymen and F1 rivals. Veteran journalist Roger Benoit, long-time correspondent for the Swiss newspaper Blick, travelled to Montreal on the same Zurich flight as Vettel and Mercedes&#8217; Nico Rosberg. He said the pair were seated not &#8230;<\/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":[5311,1317,5262,5340,1299,4,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323"}],"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=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}