Schumacher reacted to a possible penalty with gallows humor, saying: “I can’t start from further behind.” Nevertheless, he remains optimistic for the race on Sunday (from 1 p.m. in the live ticker on t-online): “Points or in the top 10 would be a good position.” This is possible “because I think an average of six cars don’t see the checkered flag here.” And further: “If there are six cars, only four are missing that I have to overtake at the start.” Then it would look good.
Schumacher drew parallels to his father Michael: “My dad used to manage to start from the back and drive to the front.” So there’s no reason “why I shouldn’t be able to do that too.”