Michael Schumacher to Finally End Disappointing Return to Formula One in Brazil

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Published: November 22, 2012

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Michael Schumacher will race his last race this weekend at the Brazilian Grand Prix before returning to a retirement that he should never have left.

When Schumacher returned to Formula One in 2010 after a three-year layoff, there was much interest in seeing whether the champ still had it and whether he would add to an already staggering array of F1 records.

He didn’t and he wouldn’t.

While Mercedes GP are saying the right things about Schumacher’s departure, the reality is very different. Team principal Ross Brawn told ESPN F1:

The results that we all hoped for over that period have not come to fruition, however the progress that our team has made has been significant, and I am confident that we will see the rewards in seasons to come.

Ross Brawn must have a different definition of "progress" than the rest of us.

Schumacher—along with Nico Rosberg—inherited the car that carried Jenson Button to his 2009 world championship.

Admittedly, rule changes to ban double diffusers took the advantage from the Brawn car as it morphed into the Mercedes, but it was immediately clear that the miraculous second coming of Schumacher wasn’t going to happen.

What’s worse for Brawn and Mercedes is that the team seems to be going backwards rather than making the progress that Brawn spoke of.



The 2010 season saw Mercedes finish fourth in the Constructors' Championship behind the big three of Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari. The team amassed a reasonably impressive 214 points, and for a team that had undergone massive change—including change of ownership and two new drivers—the future looked very promising indeed.

At the end of 2011, however, the team had only scored 165 points, but still managed to retain fourth place in the championship.

This year, however, the team has slipped to fifth place wi...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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