{"id":3681,"date":"2010-03-24T07:15:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2010-03-24T07:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:16:05","slug":"webber-not-expecting-schu-to-beat-rosberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-not-expecting-schu-to-beat-rosberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber not expecting Schumacher to beat Rosberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The balance of power between Michael Schumacher and his younger teammate Nico Rosberg will not change dramatically for the duration of 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is the opinion of Red Bull&#8217;s Mark Webber, who at times during his own formula one career has been highly complimentary as well as deeply critical of the seven time world champion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before Schumacher, 41, made his return to the F1 grid two weeks ago in Bahrain after three years of retirement, Webber said: &#8220;I have never ever seen a phenomenal comeback&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it will be a bloody hard season for him,&#8221; the 33-year-old Australian predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Schumacher was outpaced throughout the Bahrain weekend by Rosberg, who is 17 years younger than his famous German countryman.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of this weekend&#8217;s Melbourne race, Webber believes the days of Schumacher winning races by huge margins are over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t expect him to beat Nico &#8212; I expect it to be close,&#8221; he added.\u00a0 &#8220;Rosberg is competitive and I would say Schumacher is too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Jacques Villeneuve, who narrowly beat Schumacher to the title in 1997, does expect Schumacher to return to the boil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can be world champion again,&#8221; the French Canadian is quoted as saying by the German news agency SID.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his first race after three years out he was only a few tenths behind, which was a very good performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Give him a few races and he will be back to where he was with Ferrari,&#8221; added Villeneuve.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The balance of power between Michael Schumacher and his younger teammate Nico Rosberg will not change dramatically for the duration of 2010. \u00a0 That is the opinion of Red Bull&#8217;s Mark Webber, who at times during his own formula one career has been highly complimentary as well as deeply critical of the seven time world &#8230;<\/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":[5262,5261,165,92,4,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681"}],"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=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}