{"id":4545,"date":"2010-04-17T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2010-04-17T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:37:52","slug":"rosberg-happy-schumacher-not-as-quali-gap-grows-to-7-tenths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-happy-schumacher-not-as-quali-gap-grows-to-7-tenths\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg happy, Schumacher not as quali gap grows to 7 tenths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Even Nico Rosberg&#8217;s tendency to be very careful with his words this year could not hide his pleasure after blowing away a seven time world champion in Shanghai.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the wheel of the sister Mercedes, Rosberg qualified just a tenth off the front row of the grid, while Michael Schumacher comparatively languished a full 7 tenths behind.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he is happy with his fourth consecutive qualifying victory against the returning Schumacher, and the apparently growing gap between them, the 24-year-old answered: &#8220;Yes, definitely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am satisfied with my performance and of course I am happy to be in front of Michael.\u00a0 I am also surprised because I didn&#8217;t expect to be so far up the grid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher described his travails at the wheel of the W01 so far this weekend as &#8220;pretty tricky&#8221;, admitting that he has struggled with the balance of the car in China and &#8220;particularly in qualifying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It emerges that the 41-year-old opted to qualify with Mercedes&#8217; new F-duct system, while Rosberg did not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason (for the decision) is perhaps that I have spent a lot of time with the (new) wing this weekend, while Nico has spent a lot of time with the old one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will certainly be wiser after the weekend and then know what to do for the future,&#8221; added Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted to being disappointed with the 7 tenth gap to Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gap has never been so big,&#8221; said the German.\u00a0 &#8220;Of course I knew where the seven tenths come from, but it&#8217;s still a pity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Nico Rosberg&#8217;s tendency to be very careful with his words this year could not hide his pleasure after blowing away a seven time world champion in Shanghai.<\/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":[1275,1270,1221,1370,5262,5261,5340,34,92,4,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545"}],"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=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}