Schumacher – can past glories still be rekindled?

Throughout the first incarnation of his F1 career, Michael Schumacher smashed records with startling regularity. A season didn’t seem to pass without Schumacher outstripping his predecessors and setting a new, higher, better, bigger benchmark to be beaten.

Now knee deep in a less successful return to the sport he once dominated, the only record the German has come close to in 2011 is the broken one spinning fruitlessly round the turntable, as pundits endlessly debate just how close he is to throwing in the towel.

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