{"id":15830,"date":"2012-04-19T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T10:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15830"},"modified":"2012-04-19T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T10:54:42","slug":"rosberg-now-in-top-f1-drivers-league-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-now-in-top-f1-drivers-league-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg now in top F1 drivers’ league – Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nico Rosberg’s F1 breakthrough proves he is ready to fight even for the world championship.<\/p>\n

\"Nico-Rosberg-2\"That is the view of former grand prix winner, team boss and co-owner Gerhard Berger, following Rosberg’s first pole and win in China last weekend.<\/p>\n

“It surprised not me, but all the others who had doubted him,” the Austrian told Auto Bild Motorsport.<\/p>\n

“It was about time.\u00a0 I was worried,” Berger smiled, “because I have always said I thought Nico was faster than Michael (Schumacher).<\/p>\n

“Now he is finally where he has belonged for a long time — in the same league as Vettel, Hamilton, Alonso and Button,” he insisted.<\/p>\n

“And when the (Mercedes) car is good enough, he is already ready for the world title.”<\/p>\n

Berger, then as BMW motor sport director, said he was instrumental in 2002 in convincing Sir Frank Williams to give the then 17-year-old Rosberg his first F1 test.<\/p>\n

Also welcoming Sunday’s breakthrough is Nelson Piquet junior, another son of a world champion who actually went to kindergarten with Rosberg in Monaco.<\/p>\n

“It’s funny how in F1 things can take so long to happen,” the Brazilian told Globo.<\/p>\n

“It took him more than six years to get his first victory, which for me is a long time considering how good a driver he is,” added Piquet, now in Nascar.<\/p>\n

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Nico Rosberg’s F1 breakthrough proves he is ready to fight even for the world championship. That is the view of former grand prix winner, team boss and co-owner Gerhard Berger, following Rosberg’s first pole and win in China last weekend. “It surprised not me, but all the others who had doubted him,” the Austrian told …<\/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":[5262,5340,258,34,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830"}],"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=15830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15831,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions\/15831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}