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Formula One: Schumacher makes sensational return
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is making a sensational return to Formula One, Ferrari announced on Wednesday.
- Agence France-Presse
- Updated: July 30, 2009 05:31 PM IST
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The German motor racing legend, who retired in 2006, will replace injured Felipe Massa in the European Grand Prix in Valencia on August 23, and possibly for the remainder of the season.
"The Ferrari-Marlboro team plans to give Michael Schumacher Felipe Massa's car until the Brazilian returns to competition," Ferrari announced in a statement on its website
carried by Italian news agency ANSA.
The statement added: "Michael Schumacher says he is available and in the coming days he will pursue a specific programme of preparation at the end of which it will be
possible to confirm his participation in the European Grand Prix."
News of Schumacher's comeback to the sport he virtually made his own came 24 hours after the possibility had first been raised by his spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm.
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is making a sensational return to Formula One, Ferrari announced on Wednesday.The German motor racing legend, who retired in 2006, will replace injured Felipe Massa in the European Grand Prix in Valencia on August 23, and possibly for the remainder of the season.
"The Ferrari-Marlboro team plans to give Michael Schumacher Felipe Massa's car until the Brazilian returns to competition," Ferrari announced in a statement on its website
carried by Italian news agency ANSA.
The statement added: "Michael Schumacher says he is available and in the coming days he will pursue a specific programme of preparation at the end of which it will be
possible to confirm his participation in the European Grand Prix."
News of Schumacher's comeback to the sport he virtually made his own came 24 hours after the possibility had first been raised by his spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm.
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Formula 1 Michael Schumacher Bahrain Grand Prix Karun Chandhok McLaren
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