{"id":4344,"date":"2010-04-12T18:12:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2010-04-12T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:05:02","slug":"ralf-defends-brother-still-seeking-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ralf-defends-brother-still-seeking-f1-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralf defends brother, still seeking F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">While defending the success of his elder brother&#8217;s comeback, Ralf Schumacher has refused to rule out also launching a return to the sport.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also driving for Mercedes, 34-year-old Schumacher has signed up for another season in the German touring car series DTM, having earlier admitted he would jump at the chance of a good F1 seat this year.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport asked the German on Monday whether, given the criticism attracted by the dubious success of his brother&#8217;s comeback so far, he has now put the idea of a return on the back-burner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see it completely differently,&#8221; said Ralf, a six-time winner with Williams, whose F1 career subsequently ended in 2007 after four fallow seasons at the wheel of a Toyota.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would still take this step if a good opportunity arose.\u00a0 With regards to Michael, I don&#8217;t know what was expected of him by the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He sees it in quite a relaxed way, and it would be the same for myself.\u00a0 The return was primarily for himself, because he has fun with formula one and was looking for a challenge,&#8221; added Ralf Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While defending the success of his elder brother&#8217;s comeback, Ralf Schumacher has refused to rule out also launching a return to the sport.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,92,408],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344"}],"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=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}