No 3, Michael Schumacher loves No 3 too! Formula One comeback king Michael Schumacher has swapped racing numbers with Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg for superstitious reasons. “Michael has a preference for odd numbers,” a team spokeswoman said on Wednesday. “He asked if he could be the odd number and we were happy to accept.” She said the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) had approved the switch, with Schumacher now having number three on his car and Rosberg four, and a new list would be issued in due course. As a seven-time world champion, Schumacher has spent much of his record-breaking F1 career with number one on his car. He won all his titles with odd numbers — five as number one and once with three and five — and retired with 91 wins. Since 1973, when drivers were given numbers for the entire season, nobody has started as number four and won the championship. Thirteen is considered unlucky and not allocated while Britain’s Damon Hill raced with the number zero at Williams in 1993 and 1994 because in each year the reigning champion (Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost) had left the sport. Odd numbers are not Schumacher’s only foible. The German always wore a ceramic amulet, given to him by his wife and with the initials of his family members, when racing for Ferrari. Sanjay B Jumaani chucked his job as a marketing executive of seventeen years      Swetta Jumaani is the daughter of the famous Jumaani family ...