{"id":1689,"date":"2010-01-22T07:23:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2010-01-22T07:23:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:23:52","slug":"rosberg-happy-to-be-schumachers-teammate-haug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-happy-to-be-schumachers-teammate-haug\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg happy to be Schumacher&#8217;s teammate &#8211; Haug"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nico Rosberg is happy to be Michael Schumacher&#8217;s teammate, Mercedes competition director Norbert Haug insists.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the seven time world champion this week took Rosberg&#8217;s designated race number (3) for the 2010 season, it has been suggested that the 24-year-old German may have slotted into the subserviant role performed by Schumacher&#8217;s previous teammates.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Johnny Herbert, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, and the like, were clearly seen to be number 2 teammates, and it is feared that by joining Mercedes before Schumacher, Rosberg may have joined the club unwittingly.<\/p>\n<p>Haug, however, told the German news agency DPA: &#8220;Nico has found his desired configuration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has always wanted to drive the Silver Arrows in formula one, and have Michael Schumacher as his teammate.\u00a0 That may sound like a fabulous PR statement, but it is precisely the truth,&#8221; the 57-year-old insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Haug believes some of Schumacher&#8217;s past teammates were seen as number twos not because they were contractually obliged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be a team&#8217;s number one is done only through extraordinary effort, and I trust that both of our drivers will give this, especially if we give them a very good car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian former F1 winner Jacky Ickx, however, believes Rosberg will be Schumacher&#8217;s first target as he mounts his return this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rosberg is absolutely a strong teammate,&#8221; he said in an interview with the German newspaper BZ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Schumacher wants to win, he must destroy Rosberg because he&#8217;s his biggest enemy,&#8221; added the 65-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Schumacher always beat his teammates, like Herbert, Irvine, Barrichello, and everyone always thought they could be world champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg is happy to be Michael Schumacher&#8217;s teammate, Mercedes competition director Norbert Haug insists. \u00a0 As the seven time world champion this week took Rosberg&#8217;s designated race number (3) for the 2010 season, it has been suggested that the 24-year-old German may have slotted into the subserviant role performed by Schumacher&#8217;s previous teammates.<\/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":[5262,447,34,92,4,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"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=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}