Michael Schumacher has admitted it will be “difficult” for Mercedes to triumph in 2011.<\/p>\n
The seven time world champion returned from retirement last year and had a troubled comeback season with the German marque.<\/p>\n
Mercedes GP is looking more confidently into its second season since the Brawn takeover, but so far the pace and reliability of the new W02 has appeared less than perfect.<\/p>\n
“We are Mercedes and our goal is clear,” Schumacher is quoted in German by sport1.de.\u00a0 “It will be difficult to achieve our goal this year but we have a vision that is not only short term.”<\/p>\n
Schumacher ended a day of the recent Jerez test with the fastest time, but it has been rumoured that it was achieved with low fuel on the super-soft tyre.<\/p>\n
“Only the first race in Bahrain will show us exactly what our situation is,” said the 42-year-old.<\/p>\n
Schumacher’s teammate Nico Rosberg has occasionally sounded pessimistic since the debut of the 2011 car, but he told F1’s official website that he is not panicking.<\/p>\n
“Yes, we weren’t too fast in Valencia but with Michael’s two days of running in Jerez we are obviously heading in the right direction,” he said.<\/p>\n
Rosberg said last week that the W02’s current specification is akin to an “interim car”, with a big step scheduled for closer to the Bahrain opener.<\/p>\n
Michael Schumacher has admitted it will be “difficult” for Mercedes to triumph in 2011. The seven time world champion returned from retirement last year and had a troubled comeback season with the German marque. Mercedes GP is looking more confidently into its second season since the Brawn takeover, but so far the pace and reliability …<\/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\/11074"}],"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=11074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11075,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions\/11075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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