{"id":5669,"date":"2010-05-24T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2010-05-24T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:27:08","slug":"rosberg-suffers-as-mercedes-upgrades-car-lehto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-suffers-as-mercedes-upgrades-car-lehto\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg &#8216;suffers&#8217; as Mercedes upgrades car &#8211; Lehto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s former teammates believes Mercedes is working to tailor its 2010 car exclusively to the tastes of the seven time world champion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After Nico Rosberg had the upper hand for the first four races of the season, Schumacher bounced back onto the pace in Spain, where a raft of updates for the W01 were debuted.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend in Turkey, even more developments will feature on the silver car, moving JJ Lehto to sympathise with 24-year-old Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>44-year-old Finn Lehto was Schumacher&#8217;s teammate at Benetton in 1994, before he was replaced after a handful of races by Jos Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Poor Nico,&#8221; he told Germany&#8217;s Auto Bild Motorsport.\u00a0 &#8220;Michael is back into the process of building the car and the team around him.\u00a0 Nico suffers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes and even Rosberg insist that the car developments are designed to suit both drivers, but Lehto does not agree.<\/p>\n<p>He said Schumacher &#8220;loves a direct front and a loose rear end.\u00a0 At Benetton, Riccardo Patrese, Jos Verstappen and I all had problems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lehto also doubts Rosberg&#8217;s claim that he and Schumacher have a similar driving style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The young drivers of today drive very differently.\u00a0 I would be surprised if Nico is satisfied with a car that Michael is also satisfied with,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s former teammates believes Mercedes is working to tailor its 2010 car exclusively to the tastes of the seven time world champion.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,1700,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669"}],"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=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}