Who thinks Schumacher finally should retire?

When I was a kid I used to watch Schumacher, he was a great driver.
But since he came out of retirement he's just been crashing into other drivers, accidents involving him have been more frequent and it's not fair on the other drivers.
The Spanish GP yesterday just goes to prove my point.
He's beginning to remind me of Alain Prost (mainly in the 80's/90's, I don't know what he's like now) where it's the other drivers, the car, the pit crew, the teams fault...but never his.
Again, the Spanish GP yesterday proves my point.
The other drivers out there are significantly younger than he is with a lot quicker reflexes than his (due to his age, I'm sorry to say).
What's everyone else's opinion on this?

Guy.

P.S This is not a personal attack on neither Alain Prost or Michael Schumacher as I won't deny Alain his awesome driving skills (even now doing Ice Rallying) and Michael has done well considering.

Yes basically. He retired at the right time in the first place. His comeback hasn't worked.

Coming into the current champion team looked sensible on paper.

I think in fairness to Michael, he is probably as good as he was, but it is like in every sport, the competition is always getting better.

Age is against him of course, and maybe he is letting his frustrations rule his head and thus the silly mistakes become more frequent.

Had he not retired in '06, he may have taken the '07 title, and then retired on the ultimate high. If's and Buts....

7 World Championships aside, Schumacher was never a perfect driver, he quite often made mistakes under pressure. He just made up for that in every other area.

Rosberg has demonstrated that, on its day, the car is capable of victory. That must weigh on Schumacher's mind and I don't think he'll consider his comeback a success unless he too chalks up a win. I hoped he'd do well in this phase of his career, I've a lot of respect for the ol' fella, but unless he can match his team mate I think he should bow out gracefully at the end of the season - and hopefully make way for Paul di Resta.

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Originally Posted by Dave B

Rosberg has demonstrated that, on its day, the car is capable of victory. That must weigh on Schumacher's mind and I don't think he'll consider his comeback a success unless he too chalks up a win. I hoped he'd do well in this phase of his career, I've a lot of respect for the ol' fella, but unless he can match his team mate I think he should bow out gracefully at the end of the season - and hopefully make way for Paul di Resta.

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I'm getting really concerned about his increasingly desperate driving. I hope you're right and he does bow out gracefully but I think he's going to get more erratic.

The sooner PdR is in that drive, the better for everyone.

I only know and still admire one Schumacher...the one from Benetton and Ferrari era ;) And the new Schumacher has nothing in common with that one...sadly.

He's now taken part in (I think) 43 grand prix since his return, and has not even stood on the podium once. And he's generaly been outpaced by his teammate.

Let's be honest, he's not going to get any faster next year. It's time to call it a day.

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Originally Posted by aryan

He's now taken part in (I think) 43 grand prix since his return, and has not even stood on the podium once. And he's generaly been outpaced by his teammate.

Let's be honest, he's not going to get any faster next year. It's time to call it a day.

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Yup - he should make like Wayne Sleep and do the Hot Shoe Shuffle off to the knackers yard...... ;)

Or make like a Unix server and SCO

I can't say it better that SGWilko did!