{"id":12602,"date":"2011-06-01T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T11:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2011-06-01T07:07:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T11:07:32","slug":"2012-mercedes-will-be-excellent-brawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/2012-mercedes-will-be-excellent-brawn\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Mercedes will be &#8216;excellent&#8217; &#8211; Brawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg might have to wait until 2012 for an &#8220;excellent&#8221; car, Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn has admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Within the next few races, the 25-year-old German will clock up the unenviable statistic of having competed in 100 grands prix without a single win.<\/p>\n<p>After a difficult first season with Mercedes, hopes were high at the Brackley based team that the W02 would be a race winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had to squeeze out pretty much everything to win the championship (as Brawn GP) in 2009, and we paid the price for that (in 2010),&#8221; he said in Corriere della Sera newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have all the elements we need to have an excellent car next season,&#8221; said Brawn.<\/p>\n<p>He also predicted a continued run of success for Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Power in F1 goes in cycles, and normally it&#8217;s five years.\u00a0 I am aware of this personally since my days at Ferrari,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg might have to wait until 2012 for an &#8220;excellent&#8221; car, Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn has admitted. Within the next few races, the 25-year-old German will clock up the unenviable statistic of having competed in 100 grands prix without a single win. After a difficult first season with Mercedes, hopes were high at &#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":[5262,5340,34,4,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602"}],"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=12602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}