{"id":18351,"date":"2013-05-25T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18351"},"modified":"2013-05-25T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T14:09:53","slug":"pole-master-rosberg-bloody-good-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pole-master-rosberg-bloody-good-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pole master Rosberg ‘bloody good’ – Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

1996 world champion Damon Hill thinks Nico Rosberg is finally emerging from Michael Schumacher’s shadow — with a new benchmark.<\/p>\n

\"Nico-Rosberg-car-1\"Local boy Rosberg, whose Finnish father Keke won in the Principality exactly 30 years ago, put his Mercedes on pole on Saturday — his third qualifying triumph in as many attempts.<\/p>\n

“He’s been doing a fantastic job and its time it was said.\u00a0 He’s quietly been going about his business and not making a big noise about things,” Hill told the Mirror.<\/p>\n

“When he was teammate to Michael, the thinking was that Michael was past his best and it was difficult to judge Nico,” said the former Williams driver.<\/p>\n

“Well he’s got a new benchmark now and shown he’s not that bad.\u00a0 In fact he’s bloody good.”<\/p>\n

German Rosberg’s new benchmark, of course, is Briton Hamilton — the highly-rated 2007 world champion who was tempted to switch from McLaren over the winter.<\/p>\n

Hill said: “If Lewis is going to beat him (Rosberg) he’s going to have to put on his thinking cap and keep an eye on what Nico is doing.<\/p>\n

“Nico is not going to be a pushover by any means.”<\/p>\n

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1996 world champion Damon Hill thinks Nico Rosberg is finally emerging from Michael Schumacher’s shadow — with a new benchmark. Local boy Rosberg, whose Finnish father Keke won in the Principality exactly 30 years ago, put his Mercedes on pole on Saturday — his third qualifying triumph in as many attempts. “He’s been doing a …<\/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":[2120,3],"tags":[1055,5262,5340,490,34,1534,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18351"}],"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=18351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18352,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18351\/revisions\/18352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}