He might be enduring a rather less-than-glorious comeback to top flight competition in F1 2010, but at least Michael Schumacher has been spared the ignominy of seeing his former manager Willi Weber being se🔯nt to jail for insolvency.

Weber currently manages Schumacher's younger compatriot and Williams rookie Nico H?lkenberg and retains an involvement in the commercial side of the former's car𓆏eer - but in 2008 the flamboyant businessman was sentenced to two years' probation and a substantial fine for having presided over the transfer of money and assets from an insolvent Schumacher merchandising company.

The 68-year-old has now re-appeared before a German district court in Stuttgart, it has been reported, on charges of the embezzlement of EUR1.2 million and fraudulent bankruptcy of the company 'P𒅌ole Position Marketing' - for which he ൲was put on a further two-year probationary period, fined EUR93,600 in damages and ordered to pay EUR360,000 to charity.