Michael Schumacher disgraced?

The start of the season Michael Schumacher comes across as disappointing for many of these fans. At the start of the Spanish Grand Prix, he was 40 points behind his teammate and 50 points behind the championship-leading driver, Jenson Button (McLaren). He is thus in tenth place in the Championship standings, surrounded by the two Force India drivers, Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi.

The seven-time world champion, absent from competitions F1 for three years, must get used to the new behavior of the single-seaters. The MGP W01, rather understeering, is better suited to Rosberg's driving while "the Kaiser" prefers, unlike his teammate, a car more oversteering.

Schumacher also has to deal with the tire changes made after his departure in 2006. “I'm not used to driving a car with such narrow front tires. Drivers must know how their car behaves when racing conditions change. My colleagues are therefore ahead of me in this area,” admitted the pilot. Mercedes.

With the best result of a sixth place obtained during the Bahrain Grand Prix, the excitement at the announcement of Schumacher's return to Formula 1 has somewhat subsided. “The stands were once filled with caps bearing the image of Ferrari. So you just have to count the number of Mercedes GP caps in the stands today,” confides the driver?s former manager, Willi Weber.

In question, the emergence of “Baby Schumi” otherwise called Sébastian Hag (Red Bull) which won the votes of the German press. “I've looked everywhere, but Vettel is the official driver for television commercials and Grand Prix presentation clips. Schumacher left an empty place and Vettel grew up there,” says Willi Weber.

Even if Schumacher seems rather relaxed in the face of criticism, the seven-time world champion must be keen to get back to the top positions from the Spanish Grand Prix and finish ahead of his teammate.