{"id":4418,"date":"2010-04-14T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2010-04-14T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:22:13","slug":"mercedes-not-out-of-the-running-yet-brawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-not-out-of-the-running-yet-brawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes not out of the running yet &#8211; Brawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ross Brawn on Wednesday contradicted reports that Mercedes may already be out of the hunt for the 2010 world championship.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the Australian press this week, Mark Webber said it is now just Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren who will fight one another for the title.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old said that going into this weekend in Shanghai, &#8220;clearly it&#8217;s (down to) three teams already&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mercedes are doing ok but it&#8217;s Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull who are the most consistent at the moment in terms of pace,&#8221; added Webber.<\/p>\n<p>But even though Michael Schumacher&#8217;s performances have disappointed some, his teammate Nico Rosberg qualified on the front row and raced to the podium two weeks ago in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher is 26 points adrift his young German teammate, but Rosberg is a mere 4 points off the drivers&#8217; championship lead.<\/p>\n<p>Their team boss Brawn told Auto Motor und Sport: &#8220;The title fight is far from decided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was raining and hailing in Shanghai on Wednesday, and the Briton commented: &#8220;With the new scoring system, just one race weekend can have a dramatic impact on the (championship) standings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nico is extremely fast and has run very good races, especially in Malaysia.\u00a0 But with every weekend Michael is gaining more and more momentum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both will get good results when we give them a car that matches their talents.\u00a0 Then they will be right at the front,&#8221; added Brawn.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn on Wednesday contradicted reports that Mercedes may already be out of the hunt for the 2010 world championship.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,34,92,4,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418"}],"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=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}