{"id":3452,"date":"2010-03-19T07:54:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2010-03-19T07:17:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:17:04","slug":"schumacher-says-he-was-faster-than-rosberg-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-says-he-was-faster-than-rosberg-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher says he was faster than Rosberg in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Although some were underwhelmed with Michael Schumacher&#8217;s performance on his F1 comeback last Sunday, the seven time world champion is taking small comfort.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the German is struggling with the Mercedes car&#8217;s tendency to understeer, and the narrower front Bridgestone tyres, he is expecting to get up to speed in the forthcoming races.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After trailing his teammate Nico Rosberg&#8217;s pace by a few tenths all weekend in Bahrain, Schumacher finished less than four seconds behind the 24-year-old at the chequered flag.<\/p>\n<p>And he said during an interview with France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo: &#8220;I take a little personal satisfaction at being at the same pace as Nico in the race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I was significantly faster than him in the fastest laps &#8212; three hundredths!&#8221; he joked.<\/p>\n<p>However, Schumacher&#8217;s fastest lap was just the eleventh best in the field.<\/p>\n<p>But former triple world champion Niki Lauda expects the winner of a record 91 grands prix to be setting the pace before long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know what I&#8217;m talking about,&#8221; said the 60-year-old Austrian, who came back from retirement and won his third title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The old feelings need some time before they&#8217;re automatic again, but you don&#8217;t forget how to drive.\u00a0 Especially not when you&#8217;ve been at such a high level before,&#8221; added Lauda.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although some were underwhelmed with Michael Schumacher&#8217;s performance on his F1 comeback last Sunday, the seven time world champion is taking small comfort. \u00a0 Although the German is struggling with the Mercedes car&#8217;s tendency to understeer, and the narrower front Bridgestone tyres, he is expecting to get up to speed in the forthcoming races.<\/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\/3452"}],"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=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}