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I am an entrepreneur and therefore I am fascinated by greatness in any area, business, personal, spiritual or sport. To be the best of the best is a constant goal of anyone in business and someone like Schumacher, to me, oozes greatness.

I have been a Formula One fan since a boy. I don’t want to give my age away but it is fair to say that I grew up on Ayrton Senna and Prost, moved on to Mansell and Hill and settled on Schumacher.

Controversial

I know, I know, he is controversial, but that is one of the things that makes him great. He was prepared to do anything to be champion of the world. He pushed boundaries, rules even, to get to where he was; the pinnacle of motor sport; the greatest of the great.

In business we have to realise that if you want everyone to like you and be a nice guy you are in the wrong job. You will piss-off people right, left and center in business and there is nothing you can do about it. I know from personal experience that people will be happy, especially in these days of the anonymous Internet, to slag you off with rumours and innuendo. Imagine what that is like for a massive, world super-star like Schumacher, and guess what, he didn’t give a toss.

I can see your house from here!

I live not five minutes from Schumi in a village just close to Gland, Switzerland. Everyone here loves him, he contributes to the local community, plays for a local football team and, by all accounts is the perfect gentleman, and that cannot be said for all sportsmen, let alone F1 drivers.

As we, as entrepreneurs, know all too well, risk is at the core of or soul. We have to take risk to progress, sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t, so imagine what Schumi has to risk here. His last race was a race of a champion. He overtook, in a sport where overtaken is not the norm, 19 cars in one race, that is the legacy of a legend. If he comes back now, and flops, that could be his legacy. The punch drunk champion who pushed it once too far.

Schumacher has nothing to gain here, if he wins every race people will just say “well he was the best” if he comes last in every race they will say “he never was that good and this proves it”. That takes awesome balls and for that Michael, I salute you.

Good Luck and God Bless

Everyone on our team, in our village and every F1 fan in the world wishes Massa all the best and speedy recovery, we all wish you, Micheal, all the best and I for one will be buying my ticket to Valencia to see the greatest ever F1 driver take the stage one more time.

Forza Schumi

Regards
David
@TheMarketMaker