{"id":15799,"date":"2012-04-16T04:05:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T08:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15799"},"modified":"2012-04-16T04:05:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T08:05:46","slug":"schumacher-hopes-mercedes-can-keep-up-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-hopes-mercedes-can-keep-up-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher hopes Mercedes can keep up pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher hopes Mercedes can keep up its new-found winning pace at forthcoming races.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Michael-Schumacher-1.jpg\" alt=\"Michael-Schumacher-1\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Despite always qualifying strongly with its &#8216;double-DRS&#8217;, the German squad struggled markedly in the races with the degradation of Pirelli&#8217;s tricky 2012 tyre generation.<\/p>\n<p>But Nico Rosberg broke through with a dominant pole and win in China.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Mercedes can now keep it up, his teammate Michael Schumacher said in Shanghai: &#8220;I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have found that the tyres are extremely difficult to work out and different circumstances like the weather can be decisive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, 43, followed Rosberg early but had to retire after a problem with the fitting of his wheel in a pitstop.<\/p>\n<p>As for the forthcoming races, however, the famous German said: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be interesting.\u00a0 It will be much hotter in Bahrain and so we&#8217;ll have to see if the cards are shuffled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Schumacher insisted he is feeling confident, as F1 now hops immediately to Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically I&#8217;m positive, as we have seen that we can be quick on all sorts of tracks in qualifying and then be front runners (in the race) if we understand our car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher hopes Mercedes can keep up its new-found winning pace at forthcoming races. Despite always qualifying strongly with its &#8216;double-DRS&#8217;, the German squad struggled markedly in the races with the degradation of Pirelli&#8217;s tricky 2012 tyre generation. But Nico Rosberg broke through with a dominant pole and win in China. Asked if Mercedes can &#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":[1221,5262,5340,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799"}],"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=15799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15800,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions\/15800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}