{"id":4084,"date":"2010-04-02T08:47:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2010-04-02T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:47:28","slug":"schumacher-expects-longer-wait-to-be-on-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-expects-longer-wait-to-be-on-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher expects &#8216;longer&#8217; wait to be on pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher on Friday warned that Mercedes is unlikely to be setting the pace in formula one for some time yet.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The W01 is consistently named among the quickest four cars in 2010, and with a big upgrade due at Barcelona next month, the team&#8217;s optimism about joining the ultimate pace has been high.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the silver single seater looking almost as quick as Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s pace-setting McLaren at Sepang throughout the initial day of practice, Schumacher said: &#8220;It (getting on the pace) might take us a bit longer than we hoped for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The seven time world champion spent much of the Australian GP behind Toro Rosso&#8217;s Jaime Alguersuari, and he says the car is &#8220;aerodynamically very sensitive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a problem when we&#8217;re driving behind the others,&#8221; Schumacher is quoted as saying by Bild newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Ross Brawn replied: &#8220;If we soon have more performance, then Nico and Michael will be able to overtake.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all about the performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say that our car is more sensitive than the others,&#8221; insisted the Briton.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher on Friday warned that Mercedes is unlikely to be setting the pace in formula one for some time yet. \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":[5262,5261,5340,5367,528,1178,34,92,1216,35,5336,1188,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084"}],"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=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}