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Willi Weber was against Schumacher's F1 comeback
Michael Schumacher's manager Willi Weber has said that he begged the seven-time world champion not to return to the sport in 2010. From his debut in 1991 to his last year with Ferrari in 2006, Schumacher's career at the pinnacle of motorsport had yielded 91 wins. The German racer had been enjoying a leisurely three-year retirement when he was tempted to return to F1 by Mercedes at the end of 2009. However, long-time friend and manager Willi Weber saw the return as the wrong move. "I summoned him and said ‘Please don’t do it. You can only lose’," Weber said to German newspaper Abendzeitung. "He was a seven-time world champion with nothing to...
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