{"id":4013,"date":"2010-04-01T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2010-04-01T07:04:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:04:35","slug":"schumacher-hits-back-after-reports-say-comeback-underwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-hits-back-after-reports-say-comeback-underwhelming\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher hits back after reports say comeback underwhelming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher bristled in Malaysia when asked whether failing to record higher than a sixth place finish on his return to F1 so far has been &#8220;disappointing&#8221;.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why?&#8221; the seven time world champion told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, where in rainy conditions on Wednesday he demonstrated last year&#8217;s Brawn car in Mercedes colours in the shadow of the famous Petronas Twin Towers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is what people like to see at the moment, but it&#8217;s not what I see,&#8221; the 41-year-old German added.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher was outqualified by Nico Rosberg, whose points tally is more than double that of his famous teammate, in both Bahrain and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In response to reports that his comeback has been underwhelming so far, the German said: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that my opinion is different to what some media feel I should be happy with or not happy with.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s a free opinion from everybody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am quite happy.\u00a0 I have made the maximum out of my possibilities and from what we can do,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>His Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn backed Schumacher by insisting a two or three-race readjustment to F1 following three years of retirement is &#8220;normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And Norbert Haug, the German marque&#8217;s racing director, agreed that during that readjustment period, Schumacher is not being disgraced by Rosberg, whose four-year F1 career has included the three seasons in which Schumacher was absent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think (Nico) is one of the highest-rated guys of the current generation,&#8221; Haug is quoted as saying by the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael is missing three years of these four (Rosberg) years but he is here to be competitive.\u00a0 We have one of the strongest driver pairings in the field,&#8221; added the German.<\/p>\n<p>F1&#8217;s youngest driver Jaime Alguersuari spent much of the Melbourne race last Sunday fighting with Schumacher, but the 20-year-old Spaniard is not expecting to be on the same section of track as the winner of 91 races later in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he will end the season in the top group,&#8221; the Toro Rosso driver told AS newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher bristled in Malaysia when asked whether failing to record higher than a sixth place finish on his return to F1 so far has been &#8220;disappointing&#8221;. \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":[5262,5261,5340,5367,528,34,92,4,242,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013"}],"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=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}