{"id":9191,"date":"2010-10-24T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2010-10-24T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T15:54:11","slug":"vettel-failure-a-surprise-admits-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-failure-a-surprise-admits-red-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel failure a surprise admits Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gutted Red Bull team on Sunday night was ruing a catastrophic Korean grand prix, where Mark Webber lost the championship lead, and Sebastian Vettel the race.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate attention centred on pole sitter and race leader Vettel&#8217;s Renault engine failure, which Helmut Marko said took the team and its supplier by complete surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It did,&#8221; the Austrian said on German television RTL.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s our first engine failure this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mileage was at about 1600 kilometres, and normally the average (life) is 2000-2100,&#8221; added Marko.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something broke in the valve area, so it&#8217;s the first time.\u00a0 On Friday we were using an engine with much higher mileage,&#8221; said the team&#8217;s motorsport consultant.<\/p>\n<p>He advised German Vettel, 23, not to give up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not easy, but there are still 50 points to get,&#8221; said Marko.\u00a0 &#8220;Alonso is on his last engine.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not giving up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Renault apologised for the failure.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gutted Red Bull team on Sunday night was ruing a catastrophic Korean grand prix, where Mark Webber lost the championship lead, and Sebastian Vettel the race. The immediate attention centred on pole sitter and race leader Vettel&#8217;s Renault engine failure, which Helmut Marko said took the team and its supplier by complete surprise. &#8220;It &#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":[5262,5340,641,1282,129,55,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191"}],"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=9191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}