{"id":13379,"date":"2011-08-15T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13379"},"modified":"2011-08-15T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T11:00:36","slug":"mercedes-figures-admit-2012-title-tilt-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-figures-admit-2012-title-tilt-unlikely\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes figures admit 2012 title tilt unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Michael Schumacher, &#8220;the train has already left&#8221; when it comes to fighting for this year&#8217;s title.<\/p>\n<p>But the seven time world champion also doubts Mercedes&#8217; next car will be good enough to challenge the leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be presumptuous if one expects us to fight for the title next year.\u00a0 At the moment we are too far behind,&#8221; the 42-year-old German said at the weekend during the Mercedes event Stuttgarter Sternstunden.<\/p>\n<p>The German marque&#8217;s competition director Norbert Haug made a similar admission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under normal circumstances, you do not go from fourth to first in one jump,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; board, however, has the patience to wait, according to head of group research Thomas Weber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will give (the team) the time that is necessary to get to the top,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Michael Schumacher, &#8220;the train has already left&#8221; when it comes to fighting for this year&#8217;s title. But the seven time world champion also doubts Mercedes&#8217; next car will be good enough to challenge the leaders. &#8220;It would be presumptuous if one expects us to fight for the title next year.\u00a0 At the moment &#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":[5262,5340,34,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379"}],"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=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13380,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions\/13380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}