{"id":5009,"date":"2010-05-05T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2010-05-05T06:53:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:53:58","slug":"schumacher-drives-2010-mercedes-at-rockingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-drives-2010-mercedes-at-rockingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher drives 2010 Mercedes at Rockingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Ferrari and Toro Rosso have been running cars recently in Italy, Michael Schumacher was at the wheel of the 2010 Mercedes at Rockingham.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The combined oval and road course circuit is located in Northamptonshire, about an hour&#8217;s drive from Mercedes&#8217; F1 headquarters, where the 41-year-old German has been this week to look over the updated W01 for the Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher&#8217;s manager Sabine Kehm confirmed to the DPA news agency that the seven time world champion did drive at Rockingham this week for team filming purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The circuit was reportedly closed for the session and Schumacher is said to have covered about 100 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking forward to evaluating the impact (of the car developments) on our pace whilst remaining conscious that this is very much a first step in improving our competitiveness,&#8221; said team boss Ross Brawn before travelling to Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Ferrari and Toro Rosso have been running cars recently in Italy, Michael Schumacher was at the wheel of the 2010 Mercedes at Rockingham.<\/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":[34,92,1515,35,250],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009"}],"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=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}