{"id":15454,"date":"2012-03-12T07:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T11:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15454"},"modified":"2012-03-12T07:12:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T11:12:53","slug":"schumacher-insists-still-good-enough-for-f1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-insists-still-good-enough-for-f1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher insists &#8216;still good enough&#8217; for F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher insists he is still good enough to be competing against drivers decades younger than him.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old is yet to stand on a single podium since returning from retirement two years ago, intensifying speculation Mercedes might need to move on for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But ahead of the 2012 season opener, the seven time world champion told the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper: &#8220;Whether I can still compare myself with my 30-year-old self, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I do know is that I am still good enough to be here,&#8221; the famous German insisted.<\/p>\n<p>His team boss Ross Brawn, who worked with Schumacher throughout the ultra-successful Ferrari period, conceded that the record winner of 91 grands prix is now missing a few tenths.<\/p>\n<p>How is he going to claw them back?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe he doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; Brawn told the Guardian newspaper.\u00a0 &#8220;Maybe he lives with it and uses his experience and knowledge to compensate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher insists he is still good enough to be competing against drivers decades younger than him. The 43-year-old is yet to stand on a single podium since returning from retirement two years ago, intensifying speculation Mercedes might need to move on for 2013. But ahead of the 2012 season opener, the seven time world &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,34,92,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454"}],"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=15454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15455,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions\/15455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}