Michael Schumacher sacrificed himself for the future of Mercedes in Formula One

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Michael Schumacher sacrificed himself – for the future of Mercedes.
That’s what his former fighter Ross Brawn claims.

Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg. Rosner won the WC Cup for Mercedes six years later (AP/TT)

Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher ended his career with Ferrari in 2006. By that time he had won five consecutive world titles. Ross Brawn was next to Schumacher in all titles, for Ferrari as well as with Benetton. Today Brawn is F1’s sporting director, but he was also the man who along with Nick Fry bought Honda’s F1 team for a pound in 2009 and took the WC title to Brawn GP that same year.

The two Britons then sold the team to Mercedes and Brown continued as team manager. He then recruited two German drivers, young Nico Rosberg and former champion Michael Schumacher who turned 41.
Rosberg beat Schumacher every year in the championship standings, but according to Brown, Michael Schumacher’s comeback is still understated.
– He was still very fast, he proved when he took pole position in Monaco in 2012, Brown tells F1-Insider.com.

– Do not take it if you do not have the required special qualities. Just like Lewis Hamilton has a young fellow named George Russell who is insanely good, young Michael Schumacher had Nico Rosberg.

Michael Schumacher built the foundation for Mercedes

During those years, it was not Mercedes that was a superior team, it was Red Bull that won the titles. They only came later. When Schumacher retired in 2013 and was replaced by Lewis Hamilton, the results began to emerge. Since 2014, when there was a major rule change, Mercedes has been closer to invincible.

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As a driver, you always have to decide whether you want to be part of the solution or part of the problem. Michael saw his role in a new way, and wanted to be part of the solution and help build the stable, says Brown.
– In this way he sacrificed himself for the future of the stable. It was an important part of what laid the foundation for Mercedes’ success.

Then Michael Schumacher was seriously injured in a skiing accident a year after ending his career. He is still rehabilitating his injuries at his family home in Switzerland. How he feels, no one outside the closest circle can answer, but Schumacher’s name is represented in F1.

His son Mick Schumacher is racing for Haas in Formula 1, but he is one of three drivers without a contract until next year. You can find all the teams and drivers for F1 2023 here.

As we enter silly season, Marcus Ericsson’s advice from August 1 still applies:

Short news before Singapore GP in F1

The most common rumor at the moment is that Red Bull wants to replace Sergio Perez. He has only podiumed three times in the past nine races and is 125 points behind Max Verstappen in the summary. Managers like Christian Horner and Helmut Marko don’t like it.

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According to form1news.co.uk, the team has begun to think in other ways. She is interested in replacing Perez with Nico Hülkenberg until 2023. The German led the entire F1 season in 2019 and scored 37 points for Renault, and since then has been a reserve driver for Racing Point/Aston Martin where he made really good entries when regular drivers were banned due to illness.

This, much like in F1, is a rumor. But remember that Red Bull has kicked drivers before and looked outside the box before. That’s how Sergio Perez got the chance when they fired Alex Albon before 2021. And speaking of Alex Albon, he’s going back to Williams in Singapore. He missed the competition in Italy due to an appendectomy.

On yesterday’s blog you can read about what is required for Max Verstappen to win the WC title this weekend and that there will be six F1 races through to 2023.
You can now listen to the last episode of Plattan i Mattan. There we got a little closer to two of this year’s drivers and take a look at their way into F1. We’re also talking about this weekend’s competition in Singapore. Crashgate remembers – if not, we’ll be back in the huge scandal of 2008.

The Bahrain International Circuit announces that it will conduct pre-season testing from February 23-25. The season starts in Bahrain on March 5th. Here you will find the calendar for all the races in F1 2023.

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