{"id":11811,"date":"2011-04-06T05:50:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11811"},"modified":"2011-04-06T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T09:50:07","slug":"mercedes-teammates-close-in-pace-haug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-teammates-close-in-pace-haug\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes teammates &#8216;close&#8217; in pace &#8211; Haug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug has played down suggestions Michael Schumacher is all set for a repeat of his disappointing 2010 season.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was said the new Mercedes car and Pirelli tyres would see the seven time world champion more competitive in 2011, the 42-year-old German was yet again slightly off the pace of his younger teammate Nico Rosberg in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>But Haug, Mercedes&#8217; competition director, insisted: &#8220;Nico and Michael were quite close in the testing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And Michael was one tenth from being in the top ten in Melbourne,&#8221; he told the German news agency DPA.<\/p>\n<p>Haug also said it is no surprise to see the highly rated Rosberg again doing well alongside his more famous teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nico needs to hide from no driver and in my opinion would be a serious measuring stick for any competitor,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug has played down suggestions Michael Schumacher is all set for a repeat of his disappointing 2010 season. Although it was said the new Mercedes car and Pirelli tyres would see the seven time world champion more competitive in 2011, the 42-year-old German was yet again slightly off the pace of his younger teammate &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811"}],"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=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11812,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions\/11812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}