{"id":3425,"date":"2010-03-18T09:28:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:28:51","slug":"rosberg-expects-one-mercedes-on-melbourne-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-expects-one-mercedes-on-melbourne-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg expects one Mercedes on Melbourne podium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nico Rosberg does not expect both Mercedes drivers to be podium contenders at next week&#8217;s Australian grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old German was faster than his famous teammate Michael Schumacher all weekend in Bahrain, and in the race they duly finished in fifth and sixth places.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Referring to the next stop of the calendar in Melbourne, Rosberg told Bild newspaper: &#8220;The track is better suited to us than Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want our first podium,&#8221; he added.\u00a0 &#8220;I do not think that we will both be on the podium, but one of us could do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rosberg is quietly delighted at being able to outpace Schumacher&#8217;s sister car in Bahrain, although it must be noted that it was the 41-year-old&#8217;s first grand prix in more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy that I came to the finish line ahead of Michael,&#8221; said the former Williams driver, who like Schumacher also made his Mercedes race debut at Sakhir.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a super-duel between us that will get even tougher.\u00a0 It is important to beat your teammate because he&#8217;s driving the same car as you,&#8221; added Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg does not expect both Mercedes drivers to be podium contenders at next week&#8217;s Australian grand prix. \u00a0 The 24-year-old German was faster than his famous teammate Michael Schumacher all weekend in Bahrain, and in the race they duly finished in fifth and sixth places.<\/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":[805,5262,5355,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425"}],"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=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}