{"id":15894,"date":"2012-04-25T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15894"},"modified":"2012-04-25T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:51:14","slug":"haug-disagrees-with-schumachers-pirelli-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/haug-disagrees-with-schumachers-pirelli-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Haug disagrees with Schumacher&#8217;s Pirelli blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He does not agree with the seven time world champion, but Norbert Haug insists he can understand Michael Schumacher&#8217;s criticism of the current generation of Pirelli tyre.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Norbert-Haug.jpg\" alt=\"Norbert-Haug\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Mercedes driver Schumacher slammed F1&#8217;s official supplier after last Sunday&#8217;s Bahrain grand prix, saying the 2012 tyres degrade so quickly that they are not good enough for the pinnacle of motor racing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We drive around like the safety car.\u00a0 It is not a satisfying situation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher&#8217;s boss Haug, however, does not fully agree, insisting Pirelli has contributed to a &#8220;very great competition&#8221; in 2012 featuring &#8220;very good races&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, for a driver, there is always a certain frustration when you think you could be going faster, but you are having to be careful,&#8221; Haug told German reporters including Sport1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s just the nature of the racer,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Haug said Schumacher&#8217;s comments also prove that Mercedes does not muzzle its drivers, who may freely express their personal opinions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He does not agree with the seven time world champion, but Norbert Haug insists he can understand Michael Schumacher&#8217;s criticism of the current generation of Pirelli tyre. Mercedes driver Schumacher slammed F1&#8217;s official supplier after last Sunday&#8217;s Bahrain grand prix, saying the 2012 tyres degrade so quickly that they are not good enough for the &#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":[864,5262,5340,34,92,242,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894"}],"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=15894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15895,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}