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He is seated on the right, directly behind the cooking niche. The heavy, humid outside air permeates the white tent erected by the Ferrari racing team. It's the midday break on the parking lot behind the Autodromo di Monza grandstand. Michael Schumacher has shed the top of his red racing suit, knotting it around his waist like a life preserver. He twirls spaghetti around his fork. He wears the expression the tabloid press has labeled the "Schumi smile." It's a bit too proper, but friendly and direct, rather more of a sheepish Heinz Ruehmann or Jackie Chan grin than the full-fledged smile of a man who supposedly earns around 70 million euros every year, an annual income equal to that of Tiger Woods.

He has spent the morning doing test runs. More than kilometers per hour ( mph) on the straights, then braking to 80, then resuming full speed. Monza is the fastest track on the Formula One circuit, something like Enzo Ferrari's pet fantasy: the faster, the better. Schumacher shrugs his shoulders, twirls his spaghetti alio olio. He doesn't like Monza particularly. "Floor it," he says, "brake, rumble around the corners, then pick it up again." Monza, says Schumacher, is like soccer with only five players on a normal field. Nothing flows. Not like at Spa, his favorite racetrac

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