{"id":4286,"date":"2010-04-09T06:38:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2010-04-09T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:29:10","slug":"haug-denies-schumacher-could-end-f1-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/haug-denies-schumacher-could-end-f1-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Haug denies Schumacher could end F1 comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Norbert Haug has played down suggestions that Michael Schumacher&#8217;s return to formula one might be short-lived.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prior to coming out of a three-year retirement last month, the seven time world champion inked a contract with Mercedes tying him to the German marque until the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>But Schumacher, 41, has so far failed to outpace his younger teammate Nico Rosberg, lags his German compatriot in the drivers&#8217; table by 26 points, and has yet to qualify higher than 7th or better his 6th place finish in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about rumours the former Ferrari driver might not see the end of his three-year commitment, Mercedes&#8217; competition director Haug answered: &#8220;It&#8217;s quite the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that Michael is highly motivated and wants to make his comeback for the long term, with long term success,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by Bild newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if Schumacher is able to add to his record tally of 91 grand prix wins, Haug added: &#8220;Yes.\u00a0 As soon as the car can do it, so can Michael.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that he has not had better results so far is not his fault,&#8221; the German said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The true fans are experts and know exactly what has happened so far and why there is the points deficit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Haug insisted that his comments do not detract from Rosberg&#8217;s achievements so far, including a front row start and podium in Malaysia last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the first three races he did the best job possible,&#8221; he said of the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug has played down suggestions that Michael Schumacher&#8217;s return to formula one might be short-lived.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,34,92,4,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286"}],"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=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}