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Massa believes Schumacher was lucky not to have returned last year
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07 March 2010 @ 14:30 GMT - Max Moore Ferrari's Felipe Massa believes that his former teammate Michael Schumacher was lucky that his plans to make a return to F1 last season fell through. The Italian squad asked Schumacher to replace Massa after the Brazilian's Hungarian GP accident. Schumacher had call of his comeback due to a neck injury caused by a motorcycle accident in February 2009. The discussions with Ferrari have reawakened his enthusiasm for F1 racing which led to his full-time return with Mercedes GP this season. Massa reckons a return last year would have been an anti-climax for the seven times world champion after Luca Badoer and Giancarlo Fisichella struggled so badly. "I was not sure it was the right time for Michael, because our car was not so quick as he'd had in the past," Massa said. "I think he was lucky," Massa explained. Massa and Schumacher became good friends when the Brazilian was testing Ferraris as Schumacher won title after title. The two were teammates in 2006, the year Schumacher retired. |
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