{"id":18160,"date":"2013-02-20T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/rosberg-from-the-pits-to-perfect-in-barcelona-testing\/"},"modified":"2013-02-20T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:55:34","slug":"rosberg-from-the-pits-to-perfect-in-barcelona-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rosberg-from-the-pits-to-perfect-in-barcelona-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg from the pits to perfect in Barcelona testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Michael Schumacher team-mate Nico Rosberg recovered from another disrupted start for Mercedes and their W04 to set the pace on a competitive day one of the Barcelona test.<\/p>\n<p>The final hour at the Circuit de Catalunya witnessed a flurry at the top of the timesheet with all four of what would stand as the day\u2019s fastest times set in quick succession across short runs on the medium tyre.<\/p>\n<p>Although world champion Sebastian Vettel, having led the way on the hard tyres from the late morning onwards, lowered his own benchmark to 1:22.952, Rosberg had further speed in hand and chiselled three tenths of a second off of that time to give Mercedes their first day at the head of the timesheets this winter.<\/p>\n<p>The German\u2019s ascent to the top of the order was all the more impressive given he had earlier spent several hours in the team\u2019s garage while they worked on a gearbox issue, which had left him marooned on 14 laps as the field broke for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>However, once back out on the circuit and into the early afternoon sun, Mercedes enjoyed a more productive afternoon and Rosberg\u2019s eventual 1:22.616 time was enough to seal opening day honours for the Silver Arrows. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.skysports.com\/formula-1\/news\/12433\/8510227\/Barcelona-Day-One-Nico-Rosberg-overcomes-delays-to-put-Mercedes-on-top-of-test\" target=\"_blank\">skysports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Michael Schumacher team-mate Nico Rosberg recovered from another disrupted start for Mercedes and their W04 to set the pace on a competitive day one of the Barcelona test. The final hour at the Circuit de Catalunya witnessed a flurry at the top of the timesheet with all four of what would stand as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}