Michael Schumacher’s greatest quality at Mercede...

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Formulation E veteran Sam Chook has provided a glimpse into his time working with Michael Schumacher at Mercedes.

Serving as a Formulation 1 reserve driver on the Brackley outfit in 2010, Chook had a front-row seat to the comeback of the seven-time champion. Chook believed that the German driver’s best power was how he labored with individuals.

“Michael, firstly, what a man,” Bird told Lucas Stewart. “What I discovered from Michael, it wasn’t essentially how he drove; it was how he labored with individuals. His means to get the workforce round him, work with individuals, be good, be agency if you wanted to be agency.

“I feel that is in all probability the most important factor that I took away from working with him. He was actually, actually good at getting a great workforce surroundings. And that is in all probability the most important take from that have.”

Schumacher returned to F1 in 2010 after what ended up being his first retirement on the finish of 2006. Schumacher remained with Mercedes till the top of 2012 earlier than Lewis Hamilton joined the workforce. The German has been credited with escalating the outfit to championship-winning kind.

Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes GP, Senior Race Engineer to Michael Schumacher with Michael Schumacher, Mercedes GP

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“Nico [Rosberg] was his team-mate, and Nico was actually good at automobile set-up and understanding numbers and figures concerning the automobile the place he needed the automobile. Michael was good at that but in addition sensible on the person-to-person stuff,” Chook continued.

“And I feel you noticed that from Ferrari, how they cherished him, and he introduced that over to Mercedes. So it is the respect that he fairly rightly had when he was within the workforce.

“It was that presence. It was that aura of him strolling within the room, and everybody knew when Michael stated one thing, OK, there’s weight behind this.”