Sunday April 4th, 2004

A lucky charm given to Ferrari's Michael Schumacher by his wife helped him win Sunday's inaugural Bahrain Grand Prix but only after a pre-race flurry, he said.

"Corinna is always with me," the six times World Champion told television reporters after Formula One's first race in the Middle East.

"Just before the race I noticed that I didn't have her amulet with me, that I forgot it in the hotel," said the German, whose wife and two young children are at home in Switzerland.

"Someone dashed over there to get it for me and brought it back. That was perhaps the decisive difference today. Corinna and the children are always with me."

Published at 16:34:40 GMT

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