{"id":8606,"date":"2010-09-26T10:38:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T14:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2010-09-26T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T14:38:34","slug":"alonsos-face-turns-red-after-vettel-crashgate-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonsos-face-turns-red-after-vettel-crashgate-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso&#8217;s face turns red after Vettel &#8216;crashgate&#8217; joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso was the only one not amused when Sebastian Vettel cracked a joke during Saturday night&#8217;s post-qualifying press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel qualified behind Ferrari&#8217;s pole sitting Alonso on the Singapore street circuit, but said he still rated his chances of driving his Red Bull to the top of the podium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The further up you are the more it helps but obviously the race can still change a couple of things.\u00a0 I think Fernando started here from 15th on the grid two years ago and won the race,&#8221; said the 23-year-old German.<\/p>\n<p>He smiled as he paused; the reporters laughing as they realised Vettel was referring to the famous 2008 race, when Nelson Piquet crashed deliberately to trigger an opportune safety car period for his Spanish teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alonso&#8217;s face matched the hue of his Ferrari overalls,&#8221; wrote David Tremayne in The Independent.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso was the only one not amused when Sebastian Vettel cracked a joke during Saturday night&#8217;s post-qualifying press conference. Vettel qualified behind Ferrari&#8217;s pole sitting Alonso on the Singapore street circuit, but said he still rated his chances of driving his Red Bull to the top of the podium. &#8220;The further up you are &#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":[397,5262,149,5340,164,2130],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606"}],"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=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}