Schumacher 5/1 for Drivers Championship

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Anyone think this is worth a punt or is it just all hype?

From the Beeb...

Michael Schumacher is adamant he can battle for the world championship in his first season out of retirement.

The 41-year-old is returning to Formula 1 with new team Mercedes after a three-year spell away from the sport.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8478471.stm

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Schumacher has without a doubt a chance. He still has the speed as we saw in the 1st winter tests. He has a direct development of the car that dominated the championship last year and is back with Ross Brawn, the best driver/enginer combination theres ever been

But at this stage its impossible to tell. Predicting F1 pre-season now is had due to limited testing as well as the usuall unknown of what agendas the teams are running how hard there pushing? what fuel loads the have? what parts are they testing? to many possible things to consider although once a few test are out of the way a pattern will develop and we'll have a better idea of where everyone stands. I personally think it will be between the two red bulls, two ferraris and Hamilton but would love schumi to be in the mix