
{"id":402313,"date":"2023-02-07T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=402313"},"modified":"2023-02-07T06:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:22:48","slug":"ex-f1-star-predicts-mercedes-to-return-to-the-top-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ex-f1-star-predicts-mercedes-to-return-to-the-top-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Formula One star predicts Mercedes to return to the top in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Formula 1 star Gerhard Berger suggested that Mercedes will be in the title race once again this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do expect Mercedes to make a comeback this season,\u201d the 63-year-old Austrian, who competed in Formula One for 14 seasons, twice finishing 3rd overall in the championship, said.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes finished in third place in the championship last season after eight successive championship triumphs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took an aggressive approach to 2022 and it didn\u2019t quite work out. Which happens,&#8221; added Berger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they now know where the problems lie and they can tackle them to play a role in the championship again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton will be hoping that his team can provide him with a car capable of winning a record breaking eighth world championship, after he recently admitted that like every athlete, he dreams of retiring as a world champion.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Hamilton does not have too much time left to surpass Michael Schumacher in the all time championship winners list, meaning that his \u2018greatest of all time\u2019 status potentially depends on how much the Silver Arrows have learned from their 2022 failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Formula 1 star Gerhard Berger suggested that Mercedes will be in the title race once again this year. \u201cI do expect Mercedes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":402315,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17139,17319],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Gerhard Berger says Mercedes took an aggressive approach","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402313"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=402313"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=402313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}