{"id":17966,"date":"2013-03-12T07:08:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T11:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17966"},"modified":"2013-03-12T07:08:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T11:08:37","slug":"schumacher-back-at-speed-on-two-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-back-at-speed-on-two-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher back at speed on two wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite vowing never to race on two wheels again, Michael Schumacher is back on the saddle of a powerful racing motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Michael-Schumacher-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Michael-Schumacher-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>German reports say the newly re-retired seven time world champion tried to keep his test outing this week at the Valencia circuit strictly secret.<\/p>\n<p>But DPA news agency, and other news outlets, say Schumacher was definitely at full speed on a 220 horse power Honda, with the Holzhauer team.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 &#8211; during his first retirement from F1 &#8211; Schumacher was seriously injured when he crashed a similar bike.<\/p>\n<p>It prevented him from filling in for Felipe Massa following the Brazilian&#8217;s Hungaroring qualifying crash, and Schumacher vowed never to return to full speed on two wheels again.<\/p>\n<p>His manager Sabine Kehm says now: &#8220;Yes, he rides motorcycles again but he will not race anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speed Week claims Schumacher&#8217;s best test lap at Valencia was only 4 seconds slower than the very best motorcycle racers in action on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher has revealed he will be watching this weekend&#8217;s F1 season opener from the comfort of his lounge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m obviously still closely connected to the Mercedes team,&#8221; he told his website this week, &#8220;but not in a specific role and not at the track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite vowing never to race on two wheels again, Michael Schumacher is back on the saddle of a powerful racing motorcycle. German reports say the newly re-retired seven time world champion tried to keep his test outing this week at the Valencia circuit strictly secret. But DPA news agency, and other news outlets, say Schumacher &#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":[5262,5340,8,92,250],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966"}],"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=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17967,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/17967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}