Michael Schumacher will bring down the curtain on his glittering Formula 1 career at the end of this season."To make it short, this is going to be my last Monza race. At the end of this year I have decided together with the team that I’m going to retire from racing," he said. "It has been an exceptional, really exceptional time, what motorsport in more than 30 years has given to me."
Schumacher explained that the time had come to accept that his career, which has spanned more than 15 seasons, had a finite shelf-life.
His Career
Schumacher burst onto the F1 scene as a 22-year-old in 1991, qualifying seventh on his debut with Jordan at Spa.
His instant pace, and the awesome confidence with which he tackled F1’s most daunting circuit, immediately marked him out as a star of the future.
A year later at the same circuit, having been controversially poached by Benetton, Schumacher scored his maiden grand prix win in tricky wet/dry conditions.
His partnership with the Enstone-based squad yielded back-to-back world championships in 1994 and 1995 despite what was generally acknowledged as a car disadvantage to Williams rival Damon Hill.
But the manner in which he won the ’94 title – unceremoniously turfing Hill off the track after making an error at the previous corner – set the tone for a career that would be dogged by controversy and question marks over his sportsmanship.
Schumacher moved to Ferrari in 1996 and was joined at the end of the year by the tight-knit nucleus of key figures including Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne with whom he had formed a close relationship at Benetton.
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