{"id":19359,"date":"2013-04-21T17:43:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/polesitter-rosberg-expects-tough-times-in-bahrain\/"},"modified":"2013-04-21T17:43:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T15:43:55","slug":"polesitter-rosberg-expects-tough-times-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/polesitter-rosberg-expects-tough-times-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Polesitter Rosberg expects tough times in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nico Rosberg\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nico_Rosberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Nico Rosberg<\/a> expects it to be difficult to convert his pole position at the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"2010 Bahrain Grand Prix\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_Bahrain_Grand_Prix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Bahrain Grand Prix<\/a> into a win on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The German took his first pole for more than a year but said tyre degradation in the heat would be a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutright quickest in qualifying, that\u2019s really cool,\u201d said Rosberg, who starts ahead of Red Bull\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sebastian Vettel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sebastian_Vettel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Sebastian Vettel<\/a> and Ferrari\u2019s Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have to be careful because it\u2019s going to be a tough race. Rear tyre degradation will be a major issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes had much more severe degradation than their main rivals Ferrari, Red Bull and Lotus during their race simulation runs on Friday and were also considerably slower.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rosberg said they had improved the car overnight before qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw in China that we were struggling a little bit more in the race,\u201d Rosberg said, \u201cand tomorrow is going to be difficult for us.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/formula1\/22232670\" target=\"_blank\">bbc<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/motorsport\/rosberg-clinches-pole-ahead-of-vettel\/article4637552.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/26b96_161838750_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/motorsport\/rosberg-clinches-pole-ahead-of-vettel\/article4637552.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Rosberg clinches pole ahead of Vettel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grandprixinsider.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/20\/fia-f1-rosberg-on-pole-for-bahrain-grand-prix\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/26b96_161759712_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/grandprixinsider.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/20\/fia-f1-rosberg-on-pole-for-bahrain-grand-prix\/\" target=\"_blank\">FIA F1 \u2013 Rosberg On Pole For Bahrain Grand Prix<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2013\/04\/20\/mercedes-stunned-as-nico-rosberg-seals-historic-pole-position-in-bahrain-grand-prix-3659933\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f14a1_161760979_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2013\/04\/20\/mercedes-stunned-as-nico-rosberg-seals-historic-pole-position-in-bahrain-grand-prix-3659933\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes stunned as Nico Rosberg seals historic pole at Bahrain Grand Prix<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com\/2013\/04\/20\/rosberg-storms-to-pole-position-in-bahrain\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f14a1_161755748_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com\/2013\/04\/20\/rosberg-storms-to-pole-position-in-bahrain\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rosberg storms to pole position in Bahrain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/92cd7_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Nico Rosberg expects it to be difficult to convert his pole position at the Bahrain Grand Prix into a win on Sunday. The German took his first pole for more than a year but said tyre degradation in the heat would be a problem. \u201cOutright quickest in qualifying, that\u2019s really cool,\u201d said Rosberg, who [&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-19359","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\/19359","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=19359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}