{"id":16959,"date":"2012-11-02T07:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T11:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16959"},"modified":"2012-11-02T07:14:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T11:14:03","slug":"hamilton-not-worried-about-mercedes-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-not-worried-about-mercedes-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton not worried about Mercedes slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton insists he is not worried Mercedes&#8217; performance slump could slide into 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Lewis-Hamilton.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis-Hamilton\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Despite the Brackley based team&#8217;s Shanghai breakthrough and Michael Schumacher&#8217;s Monaco pole, Nico Rosberg&#8217;s best result more recently was a fifth in Singapore, while the W03 is still a regular non-finisher.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton will leave F1 grandee McLaren to join Mercedes on January 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy with the decision I made,&#8221; the Briton said in Abu Dhabi when asked about Mercedes&#8217; troubles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is happening to them (Mercedes) doesn&#8217;t have any impact on that,&#8221; he is quoted by the Times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People do sometimes lose their way.\u00a0 Even we (McLaren) have struggled in the past and not scored points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton insisted he is not only now realising the size of the challenge he will face when he starts work at Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I already knew how big it was going to be,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton insists he is not worried Mercedes&#8217; performance slump could slide into 2013. Despite the Brackley based team&#8217;s Shanghai breakthrough and Michael Schumacher&#8217;s Monaco pole, Nico Rosberg&#8217;s best result more recently was a fifth in Singapore, while the W03 is still a regular non-finisher. Hamilton will leave F1 grandee McLaren to join Mercedes on &#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":[5262,5340,154,5284,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959"}],"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=16959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16960,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959\/revisions\/16960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}