“Rain God? Schumi got flooded!” was another title preferred by the German media, Bild to be more precise, while the Frankfurter Rundschau named the 41-year old's performance “horrible.” Additionally, Hamburg's Abendblatt publication looked at the 7-time world champion as to a “learner driver.”
The media in Italy again did not lose the opportunity to mock the Formula One returnee, with sports daily Corriere dello Sport calling him “an old lion attacked by a group of young and hungry animals.” Probably the most insulting title belonged to La Stampa, who wrote “F1 without overtaking? Just ask Schumacher, who was passed constantly.”
La Repubblica settled for a decent suggestion that the German driver “is no longer in the league of the best formula one drivers,” while France's Auto Hebdo noted that in China “the former rain king seemed lost.”
The British press did not stay aside from those type of comments either, as the Independent posted an interview with one of Schumacher's former teammates at Ferrari (unknown) saying: “after the beating he got on Sunday, in conditions in which the old Michael Schumacher excelled, I don't think he'll ever come back to his old level.”
The Guardian noted Lewis Hamilton's and Jenson Button's brief discussion during the press conference, which “may have been the unkindest cut of all” for Schumacher. When Ham was asked how was it to race wheel-to-wheel against Schumacher, Button leaned over and whispered him “Tell the truth”, after which they both burst into laughter.
“The way things look, it would be no surprise to see him bowing out with as much dignity as he can salvage before the formula one season is very much older,” added the Guardian.
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