Schumi likely to call it quits: ex-teammate

SYDNEY - Michael Schumacher is likely to retire for good at the end of this season after failing to beat a talented new generation of drivers since his return to Formula One, according to former team mate Johnny Herbert.

Seven-time world champion Schumacher has struggled since his comeback after three years on the sidelines in late 2009, failing to get on the podium in 23 starts and coming nowhere close to a 92nd grand prix victory.

"He did not return just to run in the middle order," Briton Herbert, Schumacher's teammate at Benetton in 1995, wrote in a column in Abu Dhabi's The Nation newspaper.