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Schumacher ‘Likely’ to Call it Quits
May 10, 2011

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Sydney. Michael Schumacher is likely to retire for good at the end of this season after failing to beat a talented new generation of drivers since his return to Formula One, according to former teammate Johnny Herbert.

Seven-times world champion Schumacher has struggled since his comeback in late 2009 after three years on the sidelines, failing to get on the podium in 23 starts and coming nowhere close to a 92nd grand prix victory.

“He did not return just to run in the middle order,” Briton Herbert, Schumacher’s teammate at Benetton in 1995, wrote in a column in Abu Dhabi’s The Nation newspaper. “His dream was to win again and make Mercedes race winners, but it has not turned out that way and I would be surprised if he chose to continue.”

Herbert said age — Schumacher is 42 — was not a factor and that drivers like world champions Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso as well as Schumacher’s Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg had just raised the bar. “The simple fact is that he is no longer the best driver on the track,” Herbert wrote. “Schumacher has not lost any of his skill – the new generation of young drivers are just better than him.”

Schumacher finished 12th in the Turkish Grand Prix last weekend after clashing with Renault driver Vitaly Petrov and told the BBC he no longer felt “big joy” racing. His next chance to turn things around will come on May 22 at the Spanish Grand Prix, a race he has won six times, including for four years in a row from 2001 to 2004.

Reuters