{"id":12470,"date":"2011-05-24T06:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12470"},"modified":"2011-05-24T06:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:56:27","slug":"rosberg-on-par-with-vettel-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-on-par-with-vettel-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg &#8216;on par with Vettel&#8217; &#8211; Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel is a brilliant driver and his countryman Nico Rosberg is in the same league.<\/p>\n<p>That is the view of Gerhard Berger, who watched Vettel&#8217;s first grand prix win in 2008 as the team co-owner on the Toro Rosso pitwall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a killer,&#8221; the great Austrian told Bild newspaper, &#8220;and his great advantage is he doesn&#8217;t look like it.\u00a0 He looks like a nice young man from your neighbourhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years older than 23-year-old Vettel is fellow German Rosberg, who has not yet won a single race despite having almost two seasons more experience.<\/p>\n<p>But the son of 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg has consistently beaten Michael Schumacher at Mercedes, prompting Berger to observe: &#8220;I see him on a par with Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All he lacks is a fast car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel is a brilliant driver and his countryman Nico Rosberg is in the same league. That is the view of Gerhard Berger, who watched Vettel&#8217;s first grand prix win in 2008 as the team co-owner on the Toro Rosso pitwall. &#8220;He is a killer,&#8221; the great Austrian told Bild newspaper, &#8220;and his great advantage &#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":[5262,5340,258,4,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470"}],"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=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12471,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}