I must admit iam getting a bit bored with Grand Prix racing watching it on the tely.Michael schumacher had his day.It is about the car but schumacher was good in the wet as they say kept his car on the road and also very aggresive did't give a inch.Now 125 cc motorbike racing is a different kettle of fish very exciting but not often seen on the television.

You can be the best driver around, but if you you are in a car which is underpeforming, you aren't going to be able to win much

Try telling Stirling Moss that, who one at Monaco in a car 30 Bhp down on the rest of the field!

I hate Schumacher as much as the next man (especially after what happened yesterday), but I have to concede that technically he's pretty amazing.

At both Benetton and Ferrari, he started his tenure at the team with a poorly performing car, yet through constant technical feedback and working with the engineers, he would provide them with the information they needed to develop the car as he saw fit. If the car performed poorly during a race, then rather than throw his toys out the pram and sulk back to his villa in Monaco, Schumacher would instead sit down with his engineers and relentlessly pour over the telemetry data to see what could be done to improve things. As a result, he left both teams as championship winners.

OK, there's also the small matter of Benetton and Ferrari also having the geniuses of Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn on their staff books, but they can only be so effective without appropriate feedback from their driver.

Schumacher's performance this season has been rubbish, but this is way too soon to write him off - for two reasons:

1. It's very likely that the resources which should have been used developing this year's car in 2009 were instead shifted to improving the 2009 Brawn in pursuit of winning that year's championship. Therefore the 2010 car has been under-developed as a result. The same reason why McLaren were rubbish in 2009 after winning the 2008 championship.
2. The 2010 car was not developed with Schumacher in mind, who has a very different driving style to the then driver Button (see tinyurl.com/3adavjk).

It wouldn't surprise me if Brawn/Mercedes have already started to shift resources from developing the 2010 car to the 2011 car, with Schumacher's feedback throughout the design process.

If the 2011 season turns out to be equally bad for the red (or should that be silver now?) baron, then it really was a mistake for him to return.