{"id":10625,"date":"2011-01-21T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T12:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10625"},"modified":"2011-01-21T07:13:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T12:13:31","slug":"rosberg-to-drive-new-mercedes-on-first-test-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-to-drive-new-mercedes-on-first-test-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg to drive new Mercedes on first test day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg is scheduled to give Mercedes&#8217; new 2011 car, the W02, its debut outing on the first day of the Valencia test next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am going first,&#8221; said the 25-year-old German, who last year scored 70 points more than his famous teammate Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Fashion Week in Berlin, Rosberg added that the pre-season test schedule has been devised to be &#8220;fair&#8221; to both him and Schumacher, even though getting the first run is &#8220;something special&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be interesting to see how it (the W02) feels,&#8221; the German is quoted by DPA agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know pretty quickly how good it is going to be,&#8221; added Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, 42, will drive on day two.<\/p>\n<p>Rosberg continued: &#8220;It is probably unrealistic to go into the season saying we will win the championship, but we will succeed sooner or later.\u00a0 We are on the right track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Mercedes GP&#8217;s first season after the re-branding of 2009 champions Brawn GP, the Brackley based team finished fourth overall.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg is scheduled to give Mercedes&#8217; new 2011 car, the W02, its debut outing on the first day of the Valencia test next month. &#8220;I am going first,&#8221; said the 25-year-old German, who last year scored 70 points more than his famous teammate Michael Schumacher. Speaking at the Fashion Week in Berlin, Rosberg added &#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":[5262,5340,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625"}],"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=10625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10626,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}