{"id":3190,"date":"2010-03-14T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2010-03-14T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T14:09:46","slug":"schumacher-not-expecting-strong-race-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-not-expecting-strong-race-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher not expecting strong race in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">After months of headlines and hype, Michael Schumacher has admitted he will struggle to finish higher than his seventh grid position on Sunday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The race will be difficult,&#8221; said the seven time world champion, after being outpaced all weekend by his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overtaking?&#8221; the 41-year-old is quoted as saying by La Stampa in Italy.\u00a0 &#8220;Possible, but unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The McLarens are too fast on the straights and the pace of the Ferraris and Red Bulls is too strong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The podium is not an unrealistic dream but it will be very tough,&#8221; said the German.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes has pledged equality between Schumacher and 24-year-old Rosberg, but signs that the great German will wield his power are already evident.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher already plucked the race number 3 from Rosberg, and Britain&#8217;s Daily Mail reports that he demanded the team &#8220;evict his teammate from the side of the garage he had been allocated&#8221; upon arrival in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said Schumacher has also been given greater freedom than Rosberg in terms of his ability to sign personal sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael knows what to ask for and he&#8217;s in the position to ask for it,&#8221; said Niki Lauda.\u00a0 &#8220;I would do the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of headlines and hype, Michael Schumacher has admitted he will struggle to finish higher than his seventh grid position on Sunday. \u00a0 &#8220;The race will be difficult,&#8221; said the seven time world champion, after being outpaced all weekend by his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg.<\/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":[5262,34,92,4,598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190"}],"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=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}