{"id":5075,"date":"2010-05-07T06:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T10:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2010-05-07T06:29:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T10:29:32","slug":"angry-schumacher-not-swayed-by-comeback-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/angry-schumacher-not-swayed-by-comeback-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Angry&#8217; Schumacher not swayed by comeback critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher insists he is not motivated to succeed in formula one by the approval of pundits and headline-writers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The German admits he was &#8220;very angry&#8221; at himself after the recent Chinese grand prix, when he was notably off the pace of his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>He has a heavily revised car for the fifth race of his 2010 comeback, but rejects the analysis that how he performs in Spain this weekend could paint the writing on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some like to see it as &#8216;now I have the car, now I have to perform, and if not then blah, blah, blah&#8217;.\u00a0 I&#8217;m less thinking this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, 41, believes Shanghai was a blip on his trajectory of improvement this season, and is not swayed by those who think he will soon tire of his new F1 foray.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main reason I&#8217;m coming back is not to have a nice story in the media or be criticised in the media &#8212; I&#8217;m coming back because I enjoy driving and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m here for,&#8221; he told reporters in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Naturally the joy is higher if you win races, and in China I was very disappointed and I was very angry at myself, but you say &#8216;things will be different&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher insists he is not motivated to succeed in formula one by the approval of pundits and headline-writers.<\/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":[1270,5262,5261,5340,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075"}],"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=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}