{"id":7257,"date":"2010-07-24T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2010-07-24T12:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:54:01","slug":"mercedes-at-hockenheim-a-catastrophe-rosberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-at-hockenheim-a-catastrophe-rosberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes at Hockenheim &#8216;a catastrophe&#8217; &#8211; Rosberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Sebastian Vettel delighted his German fans at home on Saturday, there were no smiling faces at Mercedes GP.<\/p>\n<p>Although based in England, the self-proclaimed German national team had a poor qualifying session at Hockenheim, with Nico Rosberg only scraping into the top-ten.<\/p>\n<p>And on the occasion of the first German grand prix featuring a works Mercedes team since 1954, Michael Schumacher was showered and changed when he spoke to the media, having failed to graduate into the final phase of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For us it was an absolute catastrophe,&#8221; Rosberg told German television Sky.\u00a0 &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot be that I&#8217;m 1.4 seconds away from Red Bull now,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes arrived in Germany this weekend with a tweaked F-duct system and improvements to its Red Bull-style rear of the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car is not working this weekend,&#8221; admitted team boss Ross Brawn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have many new parts but they&#8217;re not working in harmony with one another.\u00a0 The car seems to be very unpredictable,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Sebastian Vettel delighted his German fans at home on Saturday, there were no smiling faces at Mercedes GP. Although based in England, the self-proclaimed German national team had a poor qualifying session at Hockenheim, with Nico Rosberg only scraping into the top-ten. And on the occasion of the first German grand prix featuring a &#8230;<\/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":[5262,5340,1548,1832,34,4,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257"}],"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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7258,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}