Michael Schumacher’s eventful 2011 season continued in Germany, although at least this time the former champ didn’t have to pit for a new nose.
Schumacher survived a spectacular spin on lap 23 to take an eventual eighth place. He was chasing team mate Nico Rosberg when he went off, and having lost some 14s still managed to finish only 9.9s behind his countryman. He also set a fastest lap that was 0.5s quicker than Nico, who was struggling with his set-up.
“It was pretty exciting I’d say,” said Schumacher. “There was some kind of action, particularly after my spin, which caught me by complete surprise. And I guess I must have hit a wet patch somewhere that I wasn’t expecting, and the grip seemed dramatically less!
“We had luckily a nice recovery. I lost some positions because I am sure I could have stayed in front of Sutil with the pace that we have from our car. It was a shame.
“As I said it was exciting, and lots of action, generally around and obviously as well with Nico. You don’t want to risk too much in that moment as the constructor points are important.”
Adam Cooper F1 
Called “the grass!”
I think that Nico Rosberg sets up his car for optimum qualifying setting and Michael sets-up his car for the race and it is totally possible because even before in his first career he used to concentrate on setting-up his car for the race and not quali! And that might be the reason why N.R is quick on quali but come Sunday during the race M.S if you see the lap times is better!
But with Michael always trying to get the most out the car makes some mistakes and ends up behind Nico in the race! If M.S does have a mistake free race I think he will end up in front of Nico.
Schumi is really getting back to his old self. Feisty, fast and full of it. “I must have hit a wet patch…” FFS!