{"id":1550,"date":"2010-01-15T07:21:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2010-01-15T07:21:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:21:30","slug":"schumacher-on-the-pace-as-gp2-test-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-on-the-pace-as-gp2-test-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher on the pace as GP2 test concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher was right on the pace during his test in a GP2 car at Jerez this week.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Billed as a development test for the feeder series but in fact a &#8216;warm-up&#8217; for his return to F1 this year, the seven time world champion managed more than 100 laps on slick tyres on Thursday as the weather cleared for the final day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A media statement revealed that 41-year-old Schumacher&#8217;s best lap was a 1m24.6, which is four tenths slower than the GP2 lap record at the Spanish circuit set by Kamui Kobayashi in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel fit, I felt comfortable immediately back in the car \u2013- hey, let&#8217;s go for it!&#8221; the German was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The best time of the recent F1 test held at Jerez was a 1m17, set by Daniel Ricciardo in the Red Bull, but some of the slower runners were in the low 1m20s.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher&#8217;s 1m24, meanwhile, would have seen him comfortably qualify for the last grand prix held at Jerez.\u00a0 In a Ferrari, Schumacher qualified second for that 1997 championship decider with a 1m21.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher was right on the pace during his test in a GP2 car at Jerez this week. \u00a0 Billed as a development test for the feeder series but in fact a &#8216;warm-up&#8217; for his return to F1 this year, the seven time world champion managed more than 100 laps on slick tyres on Thursday &#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":[5262,332,5312,92,5306],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}