Fernando Alonso’s return to Formula 1 can be compared with the comeback of another F1 legend, according to 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg. Before Rosberg was paired with Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, he shared the same German team with Schumacher when the seven time world champion made his return to the sport after a three-year absence. “My return has been more difficult than I expected,” Speed Week quotes Spaniard Alonso, a former Schumacher rival and two-time champion, as saying. Rosberg says 39-year-old Alonso’s 2021 Alpine car is one reason why he is struggling so far as he re-adjusts to Formula 1 after a two-year sabbatical.

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