{"id":1432,"date":"2010-01-12T05:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2010-01-12T05:58:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T10:58:20","slug":"gp2-test-is-schumacher-warm-up-for-f1-return-haug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/gp2-test-is-schumacher-warm-up-for-f1-return-haug\/","title":{"rendered":"GP2 test is Schumacher ‘warm-up’ for F1 return – Haug"},"content":{"rendered":"
Norbert Haug has admitted that this week’s three day test with a GP2 test is a “warm-up” for Michael Schumacher’s return to formula one.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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After reports in the German press said the Jerez session is simply a circumnavigation of the current F1 testing ban, both the GP2 series and Mercedes GP issued a media statement.<\/p>\n

They said the Spanish event is in fact a “development test” to gain data for the 2011\/13 GP2 car,\u00a0with “numerous suspension configurations” and the testing of “updated components including a new clutch” on the agenda.<\/p>\n

But Mercedes’ competition chief Norbert Haug described the test as a “warm-up” for the 41-year-old German, comparing it with Schumacher’s test in a two-year-old Ferrari prior to his aborted mid-season comeback last season.<\/p>\n

The GP2\/Mercedes statement did acknowledge that Jerez, to have its doors closed to the public for the test, will allow Schumacher “some motor sport mileage” in “preparation for his much-awaited return to formula one” this year.<\/p>\n

The statement also said the test had the approval of the FIA and the F1 testing committee.<\/p>\n

Reportedly on hand will be a sports doctor of the Bad-Nauheim clinic, despite the seven time world champion insisting there is no longer any trace of the injuries that prevented his Ferrari return in 2009.<\/p>\n

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Norbert Haug has admitted that this week’s three day test with a GP2 test is a “warm-up” for Michael Schumacher’s return to formula one. \u00a0 After reports in the German press said the Jerez session is simply a circumnavigation of the current F1 testing ban, both the GP2 series and Mercedes GP issued a media …<\/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":[5262,5300,332,5312,34,92,242,5306],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"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=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}