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Ferrari made right call, says Schumacher
Michael Schumacher has said that he agrees with former team Ferrari’s decision to switch the order of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in Sunday’s German Grand Prix, with the Spaniard having been allowed through to the lead in order to strengthen his higher championship position than Brazilian Massa’s.
Moral or not, the moment has been highly criticised in the media and compared with the Austrian Grand Prix of 2002, when – in the sixth race of the season, as opposed to the eleventh – Ferrari race leader Rubens Barrichello was asked to yield to then second-placed man Schumacher, who duly took the chequered flag just metres ahead.
“I have been criticised in the past for exactly that and understand it 100 percent,” Mercedes’ Schumacher explained to BBC Sport.
“I would have done exactly the same if I was in their situation; at the end of the day, what we're here for is to fight for the championship and only one can win the championship.
“By the end of the year, if you think you've lost the championship for exactly that point you will ask yourself - all not only yourself asking, but all the fans and the journalists and so on - why didn't you do so?”
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