From GMM
Less than two weeks after shocking the F1 world with his comeback plan, Michael Schumacher shocked the sport's inhabitants again on Tuesday by calling it off.
"It was the most serious accident in Michael's motor sport career," his manager Willi Weber told the German news agency DPA on Tuesday.
Schumacher revealed on his website that the motorcycle crash had caused fractures in the area of his head and neck.
The seven-time world champion's decision also moved the conversation on to the next replacement for injured Felipe Massa: Thirty-eight-year-old Italian Luca Badoer (photo), who has been Ferrari's test driver for more than a decade.
Carlos Gracia, president of the Spanish motor racing federation, slammed the Maranello team's decision to overlook its other tester, Spaniard Marc Gené.
"It's an absurdity by the management of Ferrari," he said in the sports newspaper Marca. "Gené is better prepared and has just won the 24 hours of Le Mans."
Eddie Jordan believes the Schumacher news might compel Ferrari chiefs to try to bring forward Fernando Alonso's expected move to the Italian team.
"My information is that Alonso is going to Ferrari next year," the former eponymous team owner is quoted as saying by The Sun in Britain.
"Why don't they bring it forward? If I was Ferrari that is what I would try to do."
photo:WRI2
Less than two weeks after shocking the F1 world with his comeback plan, Michael Schumacher shocked the sport's inhabitants again on Tuesday by calling it off.
"It was the most serious accident in Michael's motor sport career," his manager Willi Weber told the German news agency DPA on Tuesday.
Schumacher revealed on his website that the motorcycle crash had caused fractures in the area of his head and neck.
The seven-time world champion's decision also moved the conversation on to the next replacement for injured Felipe Massa: Thirty-eight-year-old Italian Luca Badoer (photo), who has been Ferrari's test driver for more than a decade.
Carlos Gracia, president of the Spanish motor racing federation, slammed the Maranello team's decision to overlook its other tester, Spaniard Marc Gené.
"It's an absurdity by the management of Ferrari," he said in the sports newspaper Marca. "Gené is better prepared and has just won the 24 hours of Le Mans."
Eddie Jordan believes the Schumacher news might compel Ferrari chiefs to try to bring forward Fernando Alonso's expected move to the Italian team.
"My information is that Alonso is going to Ferrari next year," the former eponymous team owner is quoted as saying by The Sun in Britain.
"Why don't they bring it forward? If I was Ferrari that is what I would try to do."
photo:WRI2