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Jenson Button Takes the Blame for Schumi’s Performance Lag

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McLaren pilot Jenson Button has made the paradoxical statement that he should be both credited for Michael Schumacher’s return to Formula 1, and blamed for Schumi’s poor performance.
Button allowed that his last minute departure from Mercedes, then branded as Brawn, led team boss Ross Brawn to reach out in a hurry for a top notch [...]

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Schumi Targets Title in 2011

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Michael Schumacher has given a clinical assessment of his chances of competing next season, in the face of a raft of criticism over his comback performance in 2010.  When asked if he would return with the Mercedes squad in 2011, he answered bluntly, “Yes.”
As Schumacher told reporters in Hockeheim today, in advance of this weekend’s [...]

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Norbert Haug Backs Schumi’s Title Challenge for 2011

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Mercedes sports honcho Norbert Haug has come out defiantly against many of the paddock skeptics who have written off Michael Schumacher’s comeback effort as a disaster.  While acknowledging that Schumacher has struggled at the start, Haug insists that Schumacher is taking the long view, and is far from throwing in the towel.
As Haug told Kicker [...]

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Nick Fry on Schumi: ‘It’s Not Coming Together’

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Mercedes GP CEO Nick Fry is taking a realistic attitude in his evaluation of Michael Schumacher’s performance at mid-season.  Fry has been publicly optimistic about Schumacher all along, assuring anyone who would listen that Schumi was a bit rusty, that everyone within the team was impressed by his efforts and skills, and that eventually all [...]

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FIA President Jean Todt Tells Schumi Critics to Show Some Respect

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FIA president and former Ferrari team boss, Jean Todt, has a few choice words for the braying critics of German ace Michael Schumacher: show some respect.  Todt was Schumacher’s boss at the Scuderia from 1996 through 2006, and while he might be accused of having a bit of Schumi bias, he clearly knows his former [...]

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Nico Rosberg Urges Mercedes Not to Give Up on 2010

Thumbnail image for Nico Rosberg Urges Mercedes Not to Give Up on 2010 June 30, 2010

Mercedes GP pilot Nico Rosberg is urging his team to continue their focus on the 2010 car.  Ross Brawn has been making noises recently about shifting the team’s efforts towards the 2011 season if it appeared that their chances of mounting a serious challenge for the 2010 title had evaporated.  The season has almost reached [...]

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Nick Fry Reaffirms His Confidence in Schumacher

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While seven time champ has come in for a pasting recently by the F1 media, Mercedes GP CEO Nick Fry has come to his defense.  Schumacher jumped into a Merc cockpit after a three-year hiatus, at the grand old age of 41.  He’s nearly a generation older than some of the youngsters on the grid, [...]

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David Coultard Calls Schumi a ‘Shadow of His Former Self’

Thumbnail image for David Coultard Calls Schumi a ‘Shadow of His Former Self’ June 17, 2010

Former F1 driver (for the likes of McLaren, Williams and Red Bull), and now occasional columnist David Coultard has weighed in on Michael Schumacher’s comeback performance.  Coultard made no bones about it.  Regarding Schumacher’s race in Montreal last Sunday, Coultard wrote in his weekly Telegraph column, “[Michael] has won a record seven times on the [...]

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Merecedes GP CEO Nick Fry Defends Michael Schumacher’s Performance

Thumbnail image for Merecedes GP CEO Nick Fry Defends Michael Schumacher’s Performance June 17, 2010

Mercedes CEO Nick Fry has defended his illustrious pilot, Michael Schumacher, against an array of sharp attacks by various media pundits this week.  Schumacher had a very scrappy race at Montreal last weekend, and the media aren’t about to let the German ace forget about it.  Schumi came into contact with no less than Robert [...]

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Schumi and Ross Brawn Hint at Shifting Focus to 2011

Thumbnail image for Schumi and Ross Brawn Hint at Shifting Focus to 2011 June 10, 2010

Early rumblings are coming from the Mercedes camp that the team is already beginning to shift its focus towards the 2011 season.  Team principal Ross Brawn recently told ESPNF1, “By mid-season, we must look to put the F-duct in and catch up to the top.  If it is worthwhile to keep attacking then we will [...]

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