“I thought ‘Hmm, maybe he wants to spend more time with the family’. I know the feeling myself when you don’t really have fun anymore.
“You’re travelling non-stop, the family is at home, you’re alone at the race track and you start asking yourself questions about the point of it all.”
However, after a decent result in Hungary, Schumacher thinks it lit a fire under under Vettel once again.
“At races like Hungary, which he almost won, you can see the glow in his eyes again,” he said. “That’s the Sebastian Vettel as we know him.”