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What a fizzer!

Michael Schumacher on the Nurburgring Nordschleife in Mercedes F1 W02

When we heard that Michael Schumacher would be driving a modern day F1 car around the Nordschleife we were excited. We should have known better. It promised so much and delivered so little.

Cruelled by F1’s in season testing restrictions, which limited the speed Michael could do, and coupled with a marketing exercise from Mercedes-Benz it was a total fizzer.

Such a shame, because it could have been so good. Just as well Mercedes ended up winning the main show, the Nürburgring 24 hour race, so that it could walk way from the Ring with some dignity in tact.

2 replies on “What a fizzer!”

It’s a problem that could have been avoided if the team gave him one of the 2010-12 cars as a gift in recognition of his service to them instead of having him come and drive one that they own. Former F1 cars owned by third party owners can be run however the third party owners want to run them, as drivers do in the invitation-only EuroBOSS racing series.

Alternately, they could have avoided the F1 testing rules completely by throwing him the keys for one of the Group C cars he drove for them during the 1990 and 1991 seasons of the World Sportscar Championship – a series in which he got two more wins for Mercedes than he did for them in F1.

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