Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher set out on the road back to Formula One on Tuesday by testing a GP2 development car in southern Spain.
The Brazilian took pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix with championship-leading team mate Michael Schumacher alongside on an all-Ferrari front row.
The Ferrari driver feels far more confident about the new Formula One season than he did last year.
Michael Schumacher continued preparing for his return to Formula One with a second day of kart racing in northern Italy on Thursday.
Balbir Singh, the Indian-born physiotherapist who has been at the German's side for the past 10 years, wants to spend more time with his family.
The 36-year-old, now the oldest driver on the Formula One starting grid, said his desire for success remains undimmed.
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello once likened Ferrari team mate Michael Schumacher to a sumo wrestler.
The Ferrari driver is the first Formula One driver to win the same Grand Prix seven times.
Ferrari's six-times world champion Michael Schumacher starts Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix on the third row in sixth place.
McLaren accused Michael Schumacher of using tough tactics to prevent Lewis Hamilton getting past for much of Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.
"I think he is in the perfect position. Honestly, he has a strong car, they're very quick, very consistent," Schumacher said.
Red Bull's triple World champion Max Verstappen wrapped up a year of unprecedented dominance with his record-extending 19th win in 22 races at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday.
Michael Schumacher finished third in qualifying on Saturday for his first competitive motorbike race and will start on the front row.
Karun Chandhok said it was a dream come true to turn out alongside seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher on the race track during testing.
Michael Schumacher should have stayed in retirement rather than risked his reputation in a disappointing Formula One comeback with Mercedes, Bernie Ecclestone said on Friday.
The German driver can celebrate his 50th win for Ferrari on Sunday as the first Formula One driver to score 1,000 points.
Doctors battling to save the life of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher reportedly have no plans to wake him from the coma.
Tokyo -- the songs Japan, Love In Tokyo and Sayonara from the 1966 Hindi film automatically pop up in the mind -- is buzzing and crowded like any other metropolis, discovers Deepa Gahlot. The modern apartment blocks are built cheek by jowl, so close together that one can open the window and borrow sugar from the neighbour in the next building. One of the fears of the Indian traveller is the unavailability of vegetarian food. Every city and town in Japan has an array of Indian restaurants that serve every variety of cuisine, right from Gujarati to Punjabi to Andhra and Kerala meals.
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