Bernie Ecclestone has come to Michael Schumacher’s defense, saying the problem with 41-year-olds results isn’t him, but the car.
Schumacher joined 2009 championship winners Brawn GP in 2009, before the team was later re-named Mercedes GP after being bought out by the German manufacturer.
His results haven’t been what some expected. At the last race in Valencia he finished 15th, his worst result to date, whilst he currently stands 41 points behind his team-mate.
Ecclestone though, reckons the seven-time world champion would be back to his winning ways if he was driving the Red Bull, rather than the Mercedes – which has been described as a ‘disaster’ by Nico Rosberg.
“He’s found himself in a much more difficult situation than he would have counted on,” Ecclestone told Gazzetta dello Sport. “It’s not a question of him, but of the car. If Michael was sitting in the Red Bull, he would immediately be as he was before.”
