Schumacher: Mercedes win unlikely in Bahrain (PA SportsTicker)
February 26, 2010
BARCELONA, SPAIN(AP) —Michael Schumacher says his Mercedes GP team is not likely to win Formula One’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
Schumacher says the former Brawn GP team is “not perfectly in the position we would like to be, probably to be competing to win the first races straight away.”
The seven-time F1 champion spoke Friday at the Circuit de Catalunya after finishing seventh in a preseason testing session. He was more than one second off the best lap of pacesetter Nico Hulkenberg of Williams.
Schumacher says the team’s objective is “not to be far off” the leading teams, which are expected to be Ferrari, Red Bull and McLaren.
