{"id":8401,"date":"2010-09-16T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8401"},"modified":"2010-09-16T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:22:26","slug":"webber-insists-not-asking-for-number-1-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-insists-not-asking-for-number-1-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber insists not asking for number 1 status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has played down suggestions he is asking for his teammate Sebastian Vettel to play a supporting role for the rest of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>At Spa-Francorchamps recently, the Australian suggested that with a growing points gap to his teammate, the time might be nearing for Red Bull to appoint a number one, depending on &#8220;how hungry they are&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Team consultant Helmut Marko then admitted Red Bull will &#8220;sit down all together&#8221; and &#8220;assess our championship chances&#8221; after Monza, where the points gap between the drivers became 24 with five races to go.<\/p>\n<p>But Vettel sounded unimpressed at the prospect of a supporting role, insisting that &#8220;team orders are banned&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Webber manager Flavio Briatore&#8217;s view is strident, insisting that maintaining parity between the pair is what Red Bull should do &#8220;if they don&#8217;t want to win the championship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Diario Sport now quotes Webber as saying: &#8220;Help from Vettel?\u00a0 It depends on the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rest assured I have not asked for anything.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the same at McLaren,&#8221; said the 34-year-old championship leader.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has played down suggestions he is asking for his teammate Sebastian Vettel to play a supporting role for the rest of 2010. At Spa-Francorchamps recently, the Australian suggested that with a growing points gap to his teammate, the time might be nearing for Red Bull to appoint a number one, depending on &#8220;how &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,165,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401"}],"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=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8403,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions\/8403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}