{"id":2523,"date":"2010-02-18T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2010-02-18T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:17:14","slug":"michael-schumacher-clever-to-cancel-2009-comeback-andretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/michael-schumacher-clever-to-cancel-2009-comeback-andretti\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schumacher &#8216;clever&#8217; to cancel 2009 comeback &#8211; Andretti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">1978 world champion Mario Andretti says Michael Schumacher was &#8220;very clever&#8221; to call off his formula one comeback last year.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old German, who will in 2010 return full-time with Mercedes GP, agreed to fill in for Felipe Massa last year following the Ferrari regular&#8217;s crash in Hungary.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But before the Valencia race in August, Schumacher said he could not drive as scheduled due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle testing crash some months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>69-year-old Andretti, however, believes the seven time world champion called off the Ferrari comeback for other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a little bit disappointed that he didn&#8217;t come back last year,&#8221; he said in an interview with Switzerland&#8217;s Motorsport Aktuell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that he did not (return then) was a wise decision for many reasons; he had never been to Valencia before, Ferrari&#8217;s was not the best car, he didn&#8217;t know the tyres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Altogether, very clever,&#8221; said Andretti.<\/p>\n<p>The Cologne publication Express scolded Andretti for apparently not believing that it was Schumacher&#8217;s injured neck that prevented his 2009 return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Andretti: take care before making distant diagnoses from America,&#8221; read the report.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1978 world champion Mario Andretti says Michael Schumacher was &#8220;very clever&#8221; to call off his formula one comeback last year. \u00a0 The 41-year-old German, who will in 2010 return full-time with Mercedes GP, agreed to fill in for Felipe Massa last year following the Ferrari regular&#8217;s crash in Hungary.<\/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":[5262,377,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523"}],"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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}