Sooner or later, and certainly before the end of the current F1 season, you hope that the men behind Mercedes Sport, techno-whizz Ross Brawn and cigar-chomping Norbert Haug, will take Michael Schumacher to one side and say: ‘You know Michael, it’s been great having you here, but Corinna’s not such a bad old stick to spend time with, is she? Why not go back to Lake Geneva and take things easy with the missus? We’ll see you at the track next season — but not in a car.’
Because, make no mistake, after the synapse-stunning tedium of the opening Bahrain Grand Prix, the second race last weekend showed that this could be an electrifying year of motor-racing. In Melbourne there was a host of tangy pleasures. Not least Schumacher’s solitary point, and second defeat by teammate Nico Rosberg.
It’s a great relief that the old lion hasn’t just wandered back behind a wheel and found the whole thing a cakewalk.
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