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Originally Posted by Skybird
Michael Schumacher was testing for Ferrari in Barcelona. And although he hasn't raced for over a year, he outclassed the whole field of drivers and marked the best round, being ahead with over 1 second, which is much in formula one.
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The gap to 2nd was actually less than 0.4 seconds. That's quite a lot, but testing times mean nothing. We have absolutely no idea what test programmes the other teams were running, or what 2008 components they had on the cars.
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Different to most of today's (young) drivers, he also knows by race experience how to drive an F1 car at competitive speed without traction control (next season it will be deactivated again after, i think, 11 years).
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Traction control has only been allowed since the Spanish GP in 2001. It was last banned at the end of 1993. That didn't stop Schumacher and his Benetton team running it in 1994 though.