Michael Schumacher News

As rumors of a Michael Schumacher comeback to Formula One mushroom, Deutsche Welle asked sports psychologists what makes it so hard for elite athletes to quit playing games and lead a "normal life." Seven times world drivers' champion.

Photograph: Felix Heyder/EPA Bernie Ecclestone says he would be "surprised" if Michael Schumacher does not race in Formula One next year, suggesting that the German has already been lined up to race for Mercedes GP.

The FIA has changed the rules to allow new drivers, who are substituted into a team mid-season, to test prior to making their debut.

Michael Schumacher has agreed a 3. 5 million euro deal to drive for Mercedes GP in Formula One next season, according to German media reports.

The entire F1 world is waiting if the resident Red Baron and one of the all-time greats in the sport, Michael Schumacher, will make his miracle comeback to once again go wheel to wheel around the world with the current crop of F1 drivers.

Michael Schumacher is almost certain to race in Formula 1 next year, according to German compatriot Timo Glock.

The 2009 Formula One season may have seen Brawn GP become the first team to win both the drivers' and constructors' titles in its debut season but it will also be remembered for the withdrawal of BMW and Toyota as well as tyre-maker Bridgestone.

Adrian Sutil is not sure it is the right thing for Michael Schumacher to launch a full-time return to Formula One.

Michael Schumacher cruised to his fifth Monaco Grand Prix victory this afternoon and extended his lead in the Formula One championship over David Coulthard, who wasted his pole position by stalling at the start of the formation lap.

The Michael Schumacher "story" - the one about him making a sensational comeback to full-time race driving in Formula One, just won't go away, will it? Everywhere you look, there is more speculation about the apparent return of the German legend and the prospect that he might decide to rekindle his hugely successful working relationship with Ross ...

Formula One was deemed cleansed and even Ferrari seemed to relish the sense of relief.

All-time great: the late Ayrton Senna was voted the best Formula One driver ever by more than 200 of his peers In an effort to cut costs, the move would see all 13 teams on show at a special event in Valencia at the end of January.

A Michael Schumacher comeback would be good for Formula One, Mercedes Grand Prix chief executive Nick Fry said.

Nico Rosberg has revealed he would welcome sharing a Mercedes GP garage next year with the most successful driver in F1's history.

It is a measure of the Malaysian Grand Prix organisers' faith in the high safety standards of the modern Formula One car that they felt comfortable using images of Michael Schumacher and his rivals engulfed in flames in their pre-event advertising, which made much of the event's status as "the hottest Grand Prix of the year". Fire is certainly no ...

Michael Schumacher is meeting with his manager Willi Weber after the coming weekend, according to the German newspaper Bild Zeitung.

After Juan Pablo Montoya's BMW Williams just beat the two Ferraris of Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher to the fastest qualifying lap at Monza, the teams' technical directors went head-to-head off the track as well.

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali admits the Italian marque is hoping Fernando Alonso can fill the void left by Michael Schumacher, something Kimi Raikkonen could not do.

Wednesday 2nd December 2009 Andrew Davies looks at some of the stories making the F1 news, including the joyeux return of the Canadian GP, Virgin sponsoring Manor/Simtek and Kimi Raikkonen's laugh-a-minute rally negotiations.

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