{"id":4961,"date":"2010-05-04T06:39:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T10:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2010-05-04T06:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T10:39:28","slug":"schumacher-will-not-revive-old-form-briatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-will-not-revive-old-form-briatore\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher will not &#8216;revive&#8217; old form &#8211; Briatore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flavio Briatore does not think Michael Schumacher will ever again demonstrate the form that netted him seven world titles until his initial retirement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Three years after vacating his Ferrari cockpit in 2006, Schumacher has so far struggled to match his teammate Nico Rosberg at the wheel of Mercedes&#8217; 2010 car.<\/p>\n<p>Pundits are split on whether the 41-year-old is past his prime or simply taking time to get up to speed.<\/p>\n<p>Briatore, no longer involved in F1 in the wake of last year&#8217;s Renault crashgate scandal, was team boss at Benetton at the time of Schumacher&#8217;s first back-to-back titles in 1994 and 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Italian reports quote the 60-year-old as saying the German &#8220;will not revive&#8221; the form of his first career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always said that Michael would find it tough against Rosberg,&#8221; said Briatore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year is going to be uncomfortable for him because there have never been so many good drivers fighting to win grands prix,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavio Briatore does not think Michael Schumacher will ever again demonstrate the form that netted him seven world titles until his initial retirement.<\/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":[5262,252,5261,5340,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961"}],"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=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}