{"id":3948,"date":"2010-03-30T20:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2010-03-30T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:38:07","slug":"heidfeld-struggling-to-adapt-as-f1-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heidfeld-struggling-to-adapt-as-f1-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidfeld &#8216;struggling&#8217; to adapt as F1 reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nick Heidfeld has revealed his struggle to adapt to merely watching qualifying at the grands prix from the reserve bench.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After holding out for the race seat in 2010, the 32-year-old is instead Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver, due to Michael Schumacher deciding to mount a return to F1 following three years of retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels strange, especially when it&#8217;s just before qualifying, I&#8217;m struggling with it,&#8221; he told the German national newspaper FAZ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before, it (qualifying) was always a moment where you had the adrenaline rush and then off you went.\u00a0 I really miss it,&#8221; said Heidfeld, who will be present for all 19 races this year in case Schumacher or Nico Rosberg are unable to race.<\/p>\n<p>Heidfeld insists he does not regret his decision to turn down lesser offers this year in the hope of finding a &#8220;top team&#8221; to race with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am convinced that I will get a place in a (race) car again, although of course I am worried and would prefer to be there now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld has revealed his struggle to adapt to merely watching qualifying at the grands prix from the reserve bench. \u00a0<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,34,92,98,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948"}],"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=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}