{"id":1518,"date":"2010-01-14T07:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2010-01-14T07:01:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:01:18","slug":"schumacher-admits-to-neck-strain-amid-gp2-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-admits-to-neck-strain-amid-gp2-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher admits to neck strain amid GP2 test"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher late Wednesday admitted to having slightly sore neck muscles after his second consecutive day of testing at the wheel of a GP2 car.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the three-day Jerez session is billed as a development test for the feeder series, a more accurate depiction of the event is as a &#8220;warm-up&#8221; for the seven time world champion&#8217;s 1 February run in the 2010 Mercedes GP car.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Despite more bad weather, the German &#8211; who has not raced in F1 since his championship challenge of 2006 &#8211; on Wednesday lapped Jerez another 53 times on slick tyres. &#8220;There is some minor muscular strain,&#8221; 41-year-old Schumacher is quoted as saying by Express, &#8220;but it&#8217;s completely normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Ferrari driver had to call off his return to F1 in the middle of last season due to the effects of an earlier motorcycle testing crash.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;There will be an acclimatisation phase when I sit in the real (F1) car at the beginning of February.\u00a0 In the past I have never managed to be able to train the muscles in the neck so that you feel nothing at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher late Wednesday admitted to having slightly sore neck muscles after his second consecutive day of testing at the wheel of a GP2 car. \u00a0 While the three-day Jerez session is billed as a development test for the feeder series, a more accurate depiction of the event is as a &#8220;warm-up&#8221; for the seven &#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":[5262,332,5312,34,92,5306],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"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=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}