{"id":4792,"date":"2010-04-26T17:29:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2010-04-26T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:20:37","slug":"brawn-confirms-new-chassis-for-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/brawn-confirms-new-chassis-for-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawn confirms new chassis for Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Team boss Ross Brawn has confirmed that Michael Schumacher will race a different Mercedes chassis at next weekend&#8217;s Spanish grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We reported after the recent Chinese grand prix that not only will the seven time world champion have a new development package at Barcelona featuring a longer wheelbase, the physical chassis will also be completely new.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old struggled significantly in Shanghai, and Mercedes&#8217; Norbert Haug acknowledged that his actual chassis may have been damaged throughout the first four races of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a new chassis per se, it&#8217;s a chassis we used in testing,&#8221; Brawn confirmed on Monday, at a fundraising event for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on the banks of the River Thames.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one he had got damaged during the first few races and we repaired it as best we could at the races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But now we are back at base we are going to reintroduce the test chassis and he will be using that in Barcelona,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by The Guardian, and the German news agency SID reported the same news on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team boss Ross Brawn has confirmed that Michael Schumacher will race a different Mercedes chassis at next weekend&#8217;s Spanish grand prix.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,34,92,35,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792"}],"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=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}