Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"Schuey was at the track on Friday long after raikkonen had left"
Michael Schumacher was in Barcelona at the weekend, attending a grand prix for the first time since his final race, at Interlagos last autumn. There would be a press conference in Ferrari's elaborate new edifice at noon on Friday, we were advised, and dutifully we turned up.
It was like a Kate Moss sighting, in which to come out ahead was to avoid being brained by swinging, shoulder-mounted, TV cameras.
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