{"id":4811,"date":"2010-04-27T06:51:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2010-04-27T06:51:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:51:25","slug":"only-judge-schumacher-after-half-a-season-coulthard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/only-judge-schumacher-after-half-a-season-coulthard\/","title":{"rendered":"Only judge Schumacher after &#8216;half a season&#8217; &#8211; Coulthard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It is &#8220;unfair&#8221; to not give Michael Schumacher more time to get back up to speed in 2010 after three years of retirement, according to his former F1 rival David Coulthard.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After dropping 40 points behind his teammate Nico Rosberg in the first four races, some pundits are predicting the revised Mercedes package for Barcelona will be Schumacher&#8217;s last chance before being universally written off.<\/p>\n<p>But while making his own return to racing last weekend, where Coulthard qualified next to last for DTM&#8217;s Hockenheim opener, the 39-year-old Scot said the seven time world champion needs more time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Give him half a season,&#8221; he told Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper.\u00a0 &#8220;Only then can we realistically assess his performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although famed for being able to adapt to less than ideal conditions, Coulthard thinks Schumacher is simply struggling with Mercedes&#8217; 2010 car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That car was actually designed for Jenson Button,&#8221; he insisted, referring to the reigning world champion&#8217;s late switch to McLaren, which made room for Schumacher at the rebranded Brawn team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is obviously that it (the car) is not right for Michael and it will take time for Mercedes to get it right for his driving,&#8221; said Coulthard.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is &#8220;unfair&#8221; to not give Michael Schumacher more time to get back up to speed in 2010 after three years of retirement, according to his former F1 rival David Coulthard.<\/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":[410,5262,5261,5340,153,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811"}],"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=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}