{"id":4763,"date":"2010-04-24T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2010-04-24T14:20:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T18:20:01","slug":"laffite-brundle-back-schumacher-to-rekindle-old-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/laffite-brundle-back-schumacher-to-rekindle-old-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Laffite, Brundle back Schumacher to rekindle &#8216;old magic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Two former grand prix drivers have called for patience amid criticism of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s return to formula one this year.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the first four races of the seven time world champion&#8217;s comeback, the 41-year-old is 40 points behind his teammate Nico Rosberg, who has outqualifed him at every venue so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not worried about Michael Schumacher,&#8221; said Frenchman Jacques Laffite, who won six grands prix in the 70s and 80s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (Mercedes) car just does not fit his driving style,&#8221; the 66-year-old told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can see on the track that he is struggling with understeer,&#8221; said the TF1 commentator.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes will debut a significant update, including new wheelbase and weight distribution package, at the Spanish grand prix, and Laffite thinks Barcelona &#8220;will be better&#8221; for Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow GP veteran and commentator Martin Brundle, who like Lafitte is contesting the opening round of the new Volkswagen Scirocco R Cup at Hockenheim this weekend, also backed his former Benetton teammate Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe in his abilities,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he needs more time.\u00a0 If I was seeing the same results in September then I would be worried.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that there is no testing is difficult for him,&#8221; added Brundle, who insists he has seen &#8220;the old Schumacher magic once or twice&#8221; this year in practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former grand prix drivers have called for patience amid criticism of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s return to formula one this year.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,1432,322,34,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763"}],"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=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}