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Schumacher has more to lose than gain - Barrichello

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Rubens Barrichello hopes Michael Schumacher is racing for pleasure © Sutton Images
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Rubens Barrichello thinks Michael Schumacher has more to lose than gain from coming back to Formula One after three seasons on the sidelines.

Barrichello was Schumacher's team-mate for six years at Ferrari and played second fiddle to the German during five of his seven world championships.

"I've got to be careful with whatever I say there, because it sounds always very dodgy coming out of my mouth," said Barrichello. "[Honestly], I think he can do well this year, but when he left he was winning all the time. For me, he has more to lose than gain."

Schumacher returned to F1 action at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix but only managed to finish sixth, one place behind young German team-mate Nico Rosberg.

"If he doesn't care about that and he's doing it for pure pleasure then he's fine," added Barrichello. "If Formula One wasn't watched on TV or by journalists and you had just the pleasure of yourself looking in the mirror... That's how I took 2007 and 2008 because I had a terrible car, but I had driven races [where] I finished 13th, better than when I won races with better cars."

Barrichello finished 10th on his Williams debut in Bahrain.

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