SCHUMACHER LOSES HIS COOL

MICHAEL Schumacher lost his legendary cool yesterday when asked if he would try to win honest on his return to F1 with Mercedes this season.

Now 41, Schumacher has already become irritated over barbed suggestions that he is too old to mix it with the current young stars of the track.

But what really riled him yesterday were questions at a Mercedes media day about his dodgy past tactics.

They included barging Britain’s Damon Hill off the track at Adelaide, when Schumacher’s Benetton was breaking down, to clinch the 1994 world title – and getting away with it. He tried to do the same to Jacques Villeneuve in 1997, but this time was thrown out of the championship, which went to the Canadian.

When asked whether his return was an opening to show he could win in the right way, the German blew up, snarling: “Ninety-one victories, ­seven titles – you win only in a bad way. Absolutely. Yeah, you’re right. I need to prove (myself) now.”

And when it was put to ­Schumacher the initial question was about the manner in which he won, and not what, he caustically remarked: “Yeah, I know. I did win all this in the manner in which you are trying to ask questions.”

In a more serious tone, he added: “Let’s be sensible and think about the reality and look forward to what we might all face, learn and enjoy together. That’s what I’m looking for.”

Schumacher’s battle for an eighth ­title is an uphill one, but he insisted: “When you’re in the car, you don’t look at how old your opponent is."

“We have everything it takes at Mercedes to be world champion again. But it’s one thing to have all the ingredients, it’s another to conjure a result.”

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