Announcement\\ Michael Schumacher announced his ‘second’ retirement from racing at the age of 43 years in the Suzuka paddock in Japan. It came as no real shock, considering Schumacher’s seat was given to Lewis Hamilton for season 2013 onwards. That left Schumacher with few alternatives for his future in F1, with Sauber as the primary option. Most F1 fans will link Schumacher with Ferrari before Schumacher and Mercedes, and those who were witness to the dominance at the turn of the millennium know forever, that his greatness is perhaps only surpassed by the late Ayrton Senna. Several of Schumacher’s fans had seen him retire in 2006. Then he returned to racing in 2010. When Schumacher read his final farewell— and thanked his wife Corinna— he was given a hero’s farewell. This was clearly a different, more humble, more accessible Schumacher. He even came out with a line about how ‘‘losing can be more instructive’’ than winning. The Schumacher of the past would never accept defeat, to the point that he was judged to have purposefully knocked Jacques Villeneuve off the track in an effort to win the title in 1997, and had his points erased for that season as punishment.