{"id":9241,"date":"2010-10-27T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9241"},"modified":"2010-10-27T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:23:46","slug":"alonso-in-same-league-as-senna-schumacher-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-in-same-league-as-senna-schumacher-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso in same league as Senna, Schumacher &#8211; Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso is in the same league as two of F1&#8217;s greatest recent champions, according to Gerhard Berger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are sometimes those special drivers: Ayrton Senna was one, Michael Schumacher was one, and Alonso is one,&#8221; said the Austrian and former grand prix winner.<\/p>\n<p>Berger is uniquely placed to compare Ferrari&#8217;s Spanish driver with those greats &#8212; he was one of Senna&#8217;s closest friends, having raced alongside the late Brazilian at McLaren in the 90s.<\/p>\n<p>And he was a contemporary of Schumacher&#8217;s during the seven time world champion&#8217;s first F1 career, moving away from Ferrari to make room for the German, and then replacing him for the 1996 season at Benetton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are drivers who can win world championships without having the absolute best car,&#8221; Berger told Austrian television Servus TV.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso is in the same league as two of F1&#8217;s greatest recent champions, according to Gerhard Berger. &#8220;There are sometimes those special drivers: Ayrton Senna was one, Michael Schumacher was one, and Alonso is one,&#8221; said the Austrian and former grand prix winner. Berger is uniquely placed to compare Ferrari&#8217;s Spanish driver with those &#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":[2329,5262,149,5340,258,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241"}],"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=9241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions\/9245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}