{"id":13546,"date":"2011-08-28T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2011-08-28T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:03:58","slug":"mercedes-investigating-lost-wheel-on-schu-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-investigating-lost-wheel-on-schu-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes investigating lost wheel on Schu anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is investigating how a rear wheel fell off Michael Schumacher&#8217;s car during qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing a special golden helmet to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his F1 debut, the famous German will start the race last because he crashed during his outlap in Q1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How embarrassing for Mercedes, to destroy his anniversary race because the wheel fell off,&#8221; Sky commentator Marc Surer is quoted as saying by Bild newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago, Schumacher&#8217;s first-ever F1 race ended within half a kilometre because the clutch in his Jordan failed.<\/p>\n<p>And in 2011?\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ve looked at the data.\u00a0 It happened suddenly, within a second,&#8221; Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still looking into it.\u00a0 There is a locking mechanism and we had a few problems last year but not with the new system this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have developed the system with our DTM team.\u00a0 There must be an explanation and I&#8217;m sure we will find it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is investigating how a rear wheel fell off Michael Schumacher&#8217;s car during qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps. Wearing a special golden helmet to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his F1 debut, the famous German will start the race last because he crashed during his outlap in Q1. &#8220;How embarrassing for Mercedes, to destroy his anniversary race &#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\/13546"}],"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=13546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13547,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions\/13547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}