Schumacher drives a Mercedes

Formula 1 is desperate for a positive storyline and it might strike some as desperate for F1 to be looking back to Michael Schumacher for redemption. Without a doubt, the return of a seven time world champion would be the story of the 2010 season (as might be his failure to live up to enormous expectations).

Events are apparently snowballing, it will be interesting one day to learn the back story: Schumacher's neck is OK in December but it was not in August? What really was behind that?

Soon after that failed return, Schumacher signed a consultancy deal with Ferrari yet at events since he has showed up dressed in non Ferrari colors (usually in the white and green TonyKart colors).

Now Luca Di Montezemolo states Ferrari would not necessarily stand in the way of a Schumacher-Mercedes deal and Schumacher was conspicuously absent from the yearly Ferrari Christmas party.

One wonders about Ferrari's quest for a third car, the rumors of how Michael's retirement after 2006 came about, the rumors of frictions with his wife over his return to active racing. Certainly he will be seen as a traitor by many Ferrari tifosi. He's not doing it for the money but had the possibility of this been in the works back in the summer and related to his failure to replace Massa?

Done deal? Schumacher showed up at his Karpen karting track in a curious choice for a Ferrari road car consultant, a Mercedes S class...
(photo:Bild.de)




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