{"id":232634,"date":"2022-04-11T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/max-verstappen-fumes-at-speed-of-turtle-aston-martin-safety-car"},"modified":"2022-04-11T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T08:54:30","slug":"max-verstappen-fumes-at-speed-of-turtle-aston-martin-safety-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/max-verstappen-fumes-at-speed-of-turtle-aston-martin-safety-car","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen fumes at speed of &#8216;turtle&#8217; Aston Martin safety car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen complained that Formula 1 &#8217;s safety car was &#8220;like a turtle&#8221; during the Australian Grand Prix after it caused Charles Leclerc to understeer at the final corner moments before the restart. The mistake gave Verstappen the opportunity to snatch the lead from Leclerc but the Red Bull was unable to rival the Ferrari&#8217;s raw pace and the reigning world champion was later forced to retire from the race due to reliability issues with his car. Asked about the restart, Verstappen criticised the speed of the Aston Martin Vantage safety car and said he preferred the Mercedes version. &#8220;It&#8217;s just that there&#8217;s so little grip because the safety car was driving so slowly,&#8221; Verstappen told The Race . &#8220;It was like a turtle. Unbelievable. With that car, to drive 140km\/h on the back straight where that was not a damaged car anymore, I don&#8217;t understand why we have to drive so slowly. &#8220;We have to investigate. For sure the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen complained that Formula 1&#8217;s safety car was &#8220;like a turtle&#8221; during the Australian Grand Prix after it caused Charles Leclerc to understeer at the final corner moments before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,1],"tags":[246,374,375,58],"class_list":["post-232634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsports","category-news","tag-cars","tag-motorsports","tag-race-cars","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}