{"id":22277,"date":"2014-06-13T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22277"},"modified":"2014-06-13T06:51:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:51:02","slug":"ricciardo-can-be-champion-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ricciardo-can-be-champion-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricciardo &#8216;can be champion&#8217; &#8211; Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo is world championship material, according to F1 legend Gerhard Berger.<\/p>\n<p>Berger, a former race winner for McLaren and Ferrari, said he has been impressed with the 24-year-old Australian since he stepped up to Red Bull this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He still has not made a mistake,&#8221; the Austrian told the APA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a new star.\u00a0 If he has a car that is right, he can be world champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ricciardo won his first grand prix in Canada last weekend, two places ahead of his high-profile teammate Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>Berger knows Vettel well, having given the German his first seat in formula one in 2007 when he co-owned the Toro Rosso team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know how good and fast Vettel is, a four-time world champion.\u00a0 But at the moment, Ricciardo is the measure of things for the team,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Ricciardo had not had the penalties at the beginning of the season, he would be just behind Lewis Hamilton in the world championship,&#8221; added Berger.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo is world championship material, according to F1 legend Gerhard Berger. Berger, a former race winner for McLaren and Ferrari, said he has been impressed with the 24-year-old Australian since he stepped up to Red Bull this year. &#8220;He still has not made a mistake,&#8221; the Austrian told the APA news agency. &#8220;He is &#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":[1096,5262,5340,258,129,164,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22277"}],"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=22277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22278,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22277\/revisions\/22278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}