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Schumacher happy with their preparations

09 March 2010 @ 05:15 GMT - Max Moore

Michael Schumacher makes his return to F1 racing this season with the Mercedes GP team and he is looking forward to the challenge ahead. But he says more testing days would have helped ahead of the season.

Teams only had 15 days in total to prepare for the 2010 F1 season and a few days were interrupted by rain. "I think none of us drivers has, but that is just normal: give us 40 days, we want 80," he said on Tuesday.

"You always have the feeling you could do more, and a lot of the test days have been strongly handicapped by the weather. It is valuable time you are losing, which would be very important for the development of the car," he said.

Despite the little testing the German driver feels happy about the preparations they have done during testing. "But all in all I am very happy with our preparation, as our focus was on reliability and internal processes. We worked very efficiently. I am looking very much forward to the start of the season now," he said.