Schumacher admits feeling nervous on his return in F1 (舒馬克承認重回賽道有點緊張)

Michael Schumacher returned in an official test session for the first since since the German retired from Formula 1, October 2006. Schumacher was invited by the Ferrari F1 team to join the team at Circuit de Catalunya for a two-day test session with the Italian squad. Speaking about his first day of action in Spain he told GPUpdate.net: "It's great fun. I like it. I'm quite happy because the way I'm able to run is good enough to help the team, despite me being out for so long. There were some question marks and I think I've answered those. It's good to know I'm still good at what I'm doing. " Ferrari were hoping Schumacher could help the team work on next year's car where traction control is no longer allowed. Speaking about the way the car now feels without any traction control Schumacher said: "The feeling with the car without the traction control is actually worse than in 2000 (the last full year without traction control), because now we have different engines. Before you had the V10 and with that engine you could play with the gears and now that's impossible. The slow corners are the most difficult corners to manage." Even though he had not driven a Formula One car for nearly 13 months the seven-time world champion soon felt at home again in Ferrari's F1 car. Speaking about how easy he adapted to the car he said: "It came back very quickly. Within two laps I knew what I had to do. For me, that was a big question mark. It's good to know all this pretty quickly. I felt nervous when I got back in the car."

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法拉力力邀Michael Schumacher參加在Catalunya為期兩天的測試， 第一天的測試裡，Michael Schumacher向媒體表示:『這真的非常有趣，也十分高興我可以為車隊跑出不錯的成績，儘管離開很久了，或許測試之前有很多人會質疑我的速度，但我想成績已經說明了一切 ~ 很高興自己寶刀未老！』法拉力主要是希望藉助Michael的經驗，幫忙測試沒有循跡控制器之下的車輛反應。Michael認為，沒有TC之後操控感覺比2000年還來地糟(當年TC也被禁用)，原因出在引擎的變更！以前我們使用V10時可以用檔位來摸索循跡反應，但現在不行了，特別是那些低速彎變地很難控制。雖然離該F1將近快要13月了，這位七屆世界冠軍的車手卻很快地就適應F-2007。被問到他是如何能夠快速適應新車時，Michael說: 那個感覺回來地很快，大概2圈之內吧，面對此次測試自己也抱個大問號，頭一回坐到車上時還會緊張呢，還好一切進展地很迅速，感覺挺不賴的。