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| F1: Comebacker fired up for season opener |
by Virgil Ellipse
5th Mar 2010 |
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Mercedes GP team bosses have confirmed that Michael ComebackerSCHUMACHER, MICHAEL
 Michael expresses his remorse at having dangerously forced a rival off the track. Again. When he wasn't driving people off the road, ramming other cars, parking in the middle of the track or trying to punch David Coulthard, Michael Schumacher displayed a dazzling talent for finding new ways to disadvatage his team-mate. We're being slightly churlish, of course, but Schumacher's reputation as a driver will forever be coloured by the unsporting manner in which he raced. His first break in F1 came with Jordan at Spa in 1991 and his second with Ferrari at Silverstone in 1999, when he fractured a leg crashing at Stowe. His final F1 drive through the field at Interlagos was a reminder of what his legacy could have been if he hadn't been quite so ready to tarnish it quite so frequently. The wanker.
Engineers started up the 41-year-old German at the team's base in Brackley, before dragging him along a cobbled street for a full shakedown.
Comebacker was then shut down for a systems check but he has now been fired up again, a full week before his first F1 race in three years.
"It may seem early," explained a team spokesman, "but we need to have him on idle for a week to give his chin time to warm up."
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