{"id":18233,"date":"2013-05-09T06:46:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18233"},"modified":"2013-05-09T06:46:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:46:58","slug":"rosberg-just-as-good-as-hamilton-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/f1-general\/rosberg-just-as-good-as-hamilton-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg just as good as Hamilton &#8211; Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerhard Berger, the former McLaren and Ferrari driver, thinks Nico Rosberg is just as good as Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Nico-Rosberg-car-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-13-drivers\/Nico-Rosberg-car-1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/>The famous Austrian, who formerly co-owned the Toro Rosso team, was asked whether Briton Hamilton&#8217;s arrival at Mercedes is the ultimate test for German Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what they said about (Rosberg alongside Michael) Schumacher,&#8221; Berger, referring to Rosberg&#8217;s former teammate, smiled to Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rosberg has proved how good he is.\u00a0 If he can also hold Hamilton at bay, it will be another milestone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, those two (Rosberg and Hamilton) are on the same level.\u00a0 Each has his own strengths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One has the cooler head, the other more emotion, and it&#8217;s pretty even,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Berger, 53, also said he has not been surprised by Mercedes&#8217; clear step forward in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not surprising,&#8221; he insisted, &#8220;because they have the best engine and two great drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was clear that at some point they would start to get the chassis right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Step by step they are coming to the front,&#8221; added Berger.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerhard Berger, the former McLaren and Ferrari driver, thinks Nico Rosberg is just as good as Lewis Hamilton. The famous Austrian, who formerly co-owned the Toro Rosso team, was asked whether Briton Hamilton&#8217;s arrival at Mercedes is the ultimate test for German Rosberg. &#8220;That&#8217;s what they said about (Rosberg alongside Michael) Schumacher,&#8221; Berger, referring to &#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":[53],"tags":[5262,5340,258,154,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233"}],"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=18233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18234,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions\/18234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}