Michael Schumacher tested a Ferrari F007 at Mugello a week last Friday (top) as part of his comeback preparations and spent two days driving karts at Lonato mid last week.

Michael Schumacher is to get behind the wheel of an older Ferrari F2007 single-seater for the second time in less than a fortnight at Mugello, and is set to test tomorrow and Wednesday on the Italian circuit, as he continues with his intensive preparations for his F1 comeback which is scheduled for just thirteen days time. "It is currently planned that Michael will drive Tuesday and Wednesday at Mugello,“ Schumacher's spokesperson Sabine Kehm told German newspaper Bild today. "He can again use the 2007 car belonging to F1 Clienti, albeit on his own initiative and at his own expense."

The seven times F1 world champion was sensationally called up by Ferrari after Felipe Massa sustained an horrific injury in the Hungarian Grand Prix late last month which will keep him out of the cockpit for sometime, with Maranello announcing the dramatic news that Schumacher would come out of retirement on July 30.

Schumacher retired from grand prix racing at the end of the 2006 season and his appearance at the wheel of F1 cars has been only sporadic since. He tested a Ferrari F2007 at Mugello on a week last Friday as he began to prepare himself for his cockpit return; before that his last time in an F1 car was April last year. The F2007, which belonged to the Corse Clienti department, that was used in the test was fitted with tyres used by the GP2 single-seater feeder series as the rules forbid testing with either a current F1 car or this year's tyre compounds.

Ferrari had hoped to let the German test the latest F60, which he will be driving in Spain, as the regulations have changed significantly since last year, but the Williams, Red Bull and Toro Rosso teams all vetoed the proposal. Instead last week the German continued his preparations by undertaking two days of karting at Lonato. "Karting has a very good training effect, that is why today I just jumped into a testing day of the Tonykart  Team in Lonato," Schumacher said in a note posted on his website at the end of the first day of karting last Wednesday. "There is nothing better for my preparations at the moment - in terms of steering wheel forces for example Karting is even more difficult than Formula 1. And the fact that it has been boiling hot here is simulating the temperatures expected for Valencia.