{"id":12586,"date":"2011-05-31T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T11:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12586"},"modified":"2011-05-31T07:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T11:09:39","slug":"daimler-chief-zetsche-backs-schumacher-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/daimler-chief-zetsche-backs-schumacher-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Daimler chief Zetsche backs Schumacher return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has received the full backing of Mercedes&#8217; top brass Dieter Zetsche.<\/p>\n<p>Zetsche, the chairman of the German carmaker&#8217;s parent Daimler, was responding to renewed calls for 42-year-old Schumacher to return to retirement after disappointing performances since he returned to F1 last year.<\/p>\n<p>But the seven time world champion had a better weekend in Monaco, where he won five times in his initial career, and Zetsche said Schumacher still has time to show he is in top form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year we gave him a bad car,&#8221; Zetsche told Bild newspaper.\u00a0 &#8220;So it was difficult for him to come back like that and prove himself again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we will see some positive surprises this year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has received the full backing of Mercedes&#8217; top brass Dieter Zetsche. Zetsche, the chairman of the German carmaker&#8217;s parent Daimler, was responding to renewed calls for 42-year-old Schumacher to return to retirement after disappointing performances since he returned to F1 last year. But the seven time world champion had a better weekend in &#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":[117,5262,5340,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586"}],"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=12586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12587,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586\/revisions\/12587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}