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Schumacher threatens Patrese record

17-year F1 veteran Riccardo Patrese thinks Michael Schumacher should scoop the 2006 championship and then call it a day. The Italian, who won six grands prix for teams including Brabham and Williams until he retired in 1993, raced a record 256 times after he debuted in 1977.

Patrese, 51, fears that seven time world champion Schumacher is heading for his long standing grands prix record.

Schumacher, the Ferrari driver, will have contested 232 races at the end of 2006, meaning that the 36-year-old will crack the Patrese-barrier shortly into season '07. "I think he still has a lot of motivation," Riccardo, at Silverstone for a Grand Prix Masters seat fitting, told Reuters.

"It would be good for him to have the last season winning the championship, because if he doesn't, maybe he wants to go on to beat my record."

Patrese thinks beleaguered Ferrari 'will come back' next year.

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