'More days would be good but it's not a catastrophe'

Michael Schumacher reckons Formula One's decision to limit the number of test days hasn't cost the teams valuable time, although that's not to say a few extra days would be amiss.

This year teams are limited to just 15 days of pre-season testing, a decision that has left Schumacher and his team-mate Nico Rosberg with just seven and a half days each in which to get their Mercedes GP W01 up to scratch.

Asked for his thoughts of the reduced number of test days, the seven-time World Champ admitted: "I think all of us would like to have more (days).

"If you give us 10 days we like 20 days, if you give us 20 we would want 40. It's always the same story."

However, it was actually a different story as during Schumacher's last stint in Formula One teams put in months of testing instead of just days.

Schumacher, though, doesn't feel too much has been lost by limiting the number of days to just 15.

"Honestly the analysis and the efficiency of how the team can operate with all the new technology that has developed in the last three years allows me to reduce test time quite a lot," he said.

"I don't think it is necessary to do as we did in 2005, almost 100,000km of testing - which by the way didn't bring us almost anything. Here I don't know how many we have done, five maybe 10,000km, we have achieved much more."

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