Michael Schumacher is sure that the Mercedes GP F1 car is competitive enough to fight for world title this season.
Mercedes GP is considered one of the favorites for the World F1 Title in 2010, both because that it represents the reincarnation of Brawn GP, and because of Michael Schumacher’s return in Formula 1. As about the the first two test sessions in this winter, Schumacher believes the Germans have a weapon able to maintain the supremacy of the Brackley factory in Formula 1.
“I am fully convinced that we have a car that is able to fight for the championship. Where we are exactly is hard to say. This is especially true for me as I don’t have the data from last year’s car,” the seven times world champion said in an interview for the official website of Formula 1.
Schumacher will make a team in Mercedes GP’s garage with his fellow countrymen Nico Rosberg and, although he
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Michael Schumacher says he felt like he made his debut in Formula 1 after he tested for the first time a Mercedes GP F1 car in Valencia.
The seven times world champion was the headline of the first day of testing on the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, officially returning at the wheel of a F1 car after an absence of three seasons.
The German impressed from the start and finished the day 3rd, just four tenths of a second behaind the leader, Felipe Massa. Referring to his physical condition, Schumacher says he feels young again comparing the Valencia test with his Formula 1 debut in 1991.
“I felt totally comfortable and really had a feeling that everything was very natural. It felt just like at the very beginning of my career in 1991 when on the first lap, I thought ‘wow that was really fast’ and then on the second lap, I was just extremely excited.
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Ferrari believes that Fernando Alonso will win in front of Michael Schumacher for the third time, in the race for the 2010 Formula 1 world title.
Michael Schumacher will return to Formula 1 in the 2010 season, but will race for Mercedes GP after he won five consecutive titles with Ferrari in 2000-2004.
In the last two years which had preceded German’s retirement, he was defeated by Fernando Alonso, the current pilot of the Ferrari. Precisely for this reason, Scuderia believes it has the perfect weapon to beat Schumacher in the race for the F1 world title in 2010.
“Let’s not forget Fernando is the only driver on the track who in his career has beaten Michael (to the world championship). Fernando has everything to beat him. Of course, it is right not to forget that what has happened has left its mark. Now we have to turn the page. We have to show Michael that this is
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Starting Tuesday, Michael Schumacher will test a GP2 car on the Spanish circuit of Jerez.
It seems that the seven times world Formula One champion can’t stay too far from the track an the adrenaline for too long. After the the German signed a three year contract with Mercedes GP at the end of the last year, it is said that Michael Schumacher is ready to get back on the wheel of a race car this week.
Starting Tuesday, the German will test, for three days, Supernova GP2 car of the Supernova team on the Jerez circuit in Spain, the information being confirmed by Schumacher’s spokesman for Autosport. According to German press, the test have already been approved by FIA and will have a private character.
Schumacher is unable to test a F1 car in January, because the FIA sporting regulations prohibit this. The Formula tests 1 will begin in February and will take place on
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Pierro Ferrari believes that Michael Schumacher has not betrayed the team that helped him won 5 world titles when he decided to return to Mercedes Formula 1 GP.
Michael Schumacher has confirmed just two days before Christmas that he will return to Formula 1 season in 2010, planning to compete for the new Mercedes GP team.
Schumacher’s move divided the Ferrari fans into two camps, as the German pilot saw the glory with the Scuderia through five consecutive world titles from 2000-2004. Some international publications labeled the German as a traitor, but Pierro Ferrari, one of the sons of the founder of the Rearing Horse said that the Maranello-located team could not provide a driver seat for Scumacher in the 2010 F1 season.
“We feel a little bad, because Michael was ours. I would have liked him to stay with us, but they are using the word ‘treason’ – in truth, he wanted to race
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