Bystaff Published: 8:47AM GMT 04 March 2010
Main man: Mercedes" new motorist signing Michael Schumacher hopes to browbeat the 2010 Formula One universe championship Photo: REUTERS Seven-time hold up Schumacher will be the centre of courtesy on his lapse to Formula One at subsequent weekend"s Bahrain Grand Prix at the age of 41.
The German"s preference to finish his three-year early retirement equates to 4 universe champions will be on the grid this season.
Clarification sought on McLaren behind wing Hamilton: Button can pull me to F1 universe pretension Liverpool to be F1 lane Lewis Hamilton"s interruption with father creates clarity Hamilton stays focused on the new F1 deteriorate Lewis Hamilton no longer managed by fatherStewart, Britain"s majority successful F1 motorist with 3 titles, said: "It"s illusory for engine racing that he"s come behind since he is right away the greatest concentration of interest.
"Fernando Alonso pushing a Ferrari is going to be difficult to beat.
"You"ve got Jenson in there as universe champion; you"ve got Lewis, who wants the universe championship back.
"To see that occurring with Schumacher back, that"s the additional corner - in my perspective - for them.
"Do they unequivocally wish to be knocked about up by a man of 41 years, who"s already been out of the sport?
"He"s going to come behind and say, "I know how to do this, and I positively know how to thread the needle"."
Stewart believes Schumacher"s Mercedes group are already personification catch-up to their rivals, with the German manufacturers not receiving over Brawn until after this season"s car had been in development.
"Maybe it"ll take him an additional year to get the car up to speed," Stewart said.
"It might not be as great a car as Ferrari and McLaren are producing this year.
"Schumacher"s so experienced and he"s so great at co-ordinating people that I think you"ll see the opening mending for him.
"I could see him not being up at the front row to proceed with, but you positively couldn"t equate him out."
This deteriorate sees Stewart"s associate Scot Paul di Resta have his entrance as Force India"s exam and haven driver.
Stewart, 70, is Scotland"s last F1 universe champion, his majority new pretension entrance 37 years ago.
But he insisted his nation was punching on top of the weight in engine sport, indicating to new successes in IndyCar, at Le Mans and in rallying.
Dario Franchitti is now the customary dispatcher for Scottish engine racing, carrying won dual of the last 3 IndyCar Series.
But Stewart cannot see him perplexing his fitness in F1.
"I think Dario would love to have driven Formula One," he pronounced of Franchitti, who has raced for Stewart"s Paul Stewart Racing group in the British Formula Three Championship.
"The complaint is you get to a sure age or a sure duration of your pushing career where if people don"t think you"re going to do it, they don"t suggest you the drives that you would similar to to have.
"I think that happened with Dario."
