Anonymous Schumacher slots in for big race

MICHAEL Schumacher may be within sight of an historic sixth World Championship but in North America he is still just another face in the crowd.

The 34-year-old German revealed yesterday how he prepared for Sunday’s US Grand Prix at Indianapolis by wandering largely unrecognised among the slot machines of Las Vegas.

Schumacher said: “I moved very freely around. There were a few European guys hanging around on holiday who knew me.