{"id":1639,"date":"2010-01-21T07:34:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2010-01-21T07:34:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:34:03","slug":"no-neck-trouble-as-schumacher-takes-no-3-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-neck-trouble-as-schumacher-takes-no-3-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"No neck trouble as Schumacher takes no.3 for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher has confirmed there is no sign of the injuries that thwarted his return to F1 last year.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Felipe Massa&#8217;s Budapest crash, the 41-year-old German had to call off his agreed return for Ferrari due to the effects of a motorcycle testing crash early last year.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, who is returning full-time with Mercedes GP in 2010, tested for three days in a GP2 car last week and announced on Wednesday that he is in perfect health.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The after-effects of that accident are gone since long, that&#8217;s why I was sure that the neck would not cause any problems,&#8221; he said in an interview with his official website.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher admits that the final hurdle will be the lifting of F1&#8217;s winter test ban in on 1 February, when he will get at the wheel of the 2010 car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only then the old feeling will be completely back.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to be back there,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Brackley based team, meanwhile, confirmed that Schumacher&#8217;s request to take the higher race number (3) from his teammate Nico Rosberg has been granted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael has a preference for odd numbers,&#8221; she said, also revealing that the FIA has already approved the switch.\u00a0 &#8220;He asked if he could be the odd number and we were happy to accept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has confirmed there is no sign of the injuries that thwarted his return to F1 last year. \u00a0 In the wake of Felipe Massa&#8217;s Budapest crash, the 41-year-old German had to call off his agreed return for Ferrari due to the effects of a motorcycle testing crash early last year. Schumacher, who is &#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":[5262,5300,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}