{"id":13679,"date":"2011-09-12T07:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13679"},"modified":"2011-09-12T07:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:31:05","slug":"schumacher-return-a-waste-of-time-irvine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-return-a-waste-of-time-irvine\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher return &#8216;a waste of time&#8217; &#8211; Irvine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Irvine is convinced his former Ferrari teammate&#8217;s return to formula one is a &#8220;waste of time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Schumacher, who shared the Ferrari team with the outspoken Ulsterman in the late 90s, had a strong weekend at Monza but his comeback has generally been regarded as mediocre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a waste of time,&#8221; Irvine scolded on a visit to the Monza paddock, according to Der Spiegel newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Schumacher is good but no longer good enough and he was already on the decline in 2005 and 2006 at Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no idea why Mercedes invests in such an old driver as the performance curve can only be downwards.\u00a0 He&#8217;s too old now to beat the top drivers like Nico Rosberg,&#8221; added Irvine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Irvine is convinced his former Ferrari teammate&#8217;s return to formula one is a &#8220;waste of time&#8221;. Michael Schumacher, who shared the Ferrari team with the outspoken Ulsterman in the late 90s, had a strong weekend at Monza but his comeback has generally been regarded as mediocre. &#8220;It&#8217;s a waste of time,&#8221; Irvine scolded on &#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":[312,5262,5340,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679"}],"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=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13680,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions\/13680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}