{"id":8703,"date":"2010-09-30T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8703"},"modified":"2010-09-30T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:37:15","slug":"fia-have-stopped-red-bulls-illegal-car-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-have-stopped-red-bulls-illegal-car-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA have stopped Red Bull&#8217;s illegal car &#8211; Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull&#8217;s dominance has been curbed because it is no longer fielding an illegal car, according to Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 world champion said that after the team&#8217;s RB6 utterly dominated in Hungary in August, the tighter FIA flexibility tests have obviously affected the pace of the Adrian Newey-penned car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good question,&#8221; McLaren driver Hamilton told Bild newspaper on a visit to Berlin this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Hungary they were 2 seconds per lap faster than the rest of us.\u00a0 It is simply impossible to have a lead like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked specifically if he thinks Red Bull were cheating earlier in 2010, Hamilton answered: &#8220;We have always kept to the rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our people wondered if their car was legal and we asked the FIA.\u00a0 After that Red Bull had to rebuild their car and take a step back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a good decision by the FIA,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>He was also asked about the apparent psychological warfare being deployed by his championship rivals at present, particularly by his former McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s normal that, at the end of a season, the mind games begin.\u00a0 I&#8217;m strong enough and ready for it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not worried, but I think it&#8217;s best if you just do your talking on the track,&#8221; said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>And despite almost writing off his championship chances after Singapore, Hamilton now insists he is ready for the challenge of the final four races of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was back at home in Zurich for one day; I woke up in the morning and went for a run in the forest with rap music on my headphones.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll be back,&#8221; he insisted.<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull&#8217;s dominance has been curbed because it is no longer fielding an illegal car, according to Lewis Hamilton. The 2008 world champion said that after the team&#8217;s RB6 utterly dominated in Hungary in August, the tighter FIA flexibility tests have obviously affected the pace of the Adrian Newey-penned car. &#8220;Good question,&#8221; McLaren driver Hamilton &#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":[5262,5340,154,5284,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703"}],"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=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}