{"id":3297,"date":"2010-03-15T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2010-03-15T20:08:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:08:44","slug":"happy-schumacher-champion-of-arrogance-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/happy-schumacher-champion-of-arrogance-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Schumacher &#8216;champion of arrogance&#8217; &#8211; newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Italian press has poured scorn on Michael Schumacher&#8217;s return to formula one.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old German, whose previous race had been at the wheel of a Ferrari in 2006, managed sixth place in Bahrain after being outpaced all weekend by his young Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Large elements of Italy saw Schumacher&#8217;s decision to return with a rival team as an act of deceit, and the Genoa-based Il Secolo XIX newspaper now crowns him the &#8220;world champion of arrogance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>La Gazzetta dello Sport joked that the German failed to turn up in the island Kingdom, and Corriere della Sera said the anonymous performance had been a &#8220;strange Sunday afternoon for Herr Michael&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But Schumacher himself said he was happy with his comeback, and Mercedes&#8217; chief executive Nick Fry insisted that the team&#8217;s new driver had finished the event &#8220;in great spirits&#8221; and excellent physical shape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All in all I have to say I am very, very happy and proud about how it went, considering I was completely out for three years and did not have a lot of driving for preparation,&#8221; Schumacher told his official website on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian press has poured scorn on Michael Schumacher&#8217;s return to formula one. \u00a0 The 41-year-old German, whose previous race had been at the wheel of a Ferrari in 2006, managed sixth place in Bahrain after being outpaced all weekend by his young 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":[5262,924,34,92,4,923],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297"}],"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=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}