View Full Version : Schumacher Back in F1
MR UKI (1)
29-07-09, 05:23 PM
Not sure if already posted, but
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8172310.stm
WOW!
Great news. Will create a massive media frenzy round Ferrari at the next race though.
Will be interesting to see how he does now compared to everyone else. :p
Absolutely amazing....very harsh on the test drivers, but I'm very glad he will be coming back for valencia at least.
I dont expect him to do that brilliantly but should be interesting.
This is what makes the "No Testing" rule a bit rubbish. New drivers need to be able to practise.
MR UKI (1)
29-07-09, 05:39 PM
He won't have raced at the first circuit back either, as it's the Valencia street circuit which was first run last year.
thedonal
29-07-09, 06:16 PM
Hooray!
the driver we love to boo at is back. Should be entertaining.
Wonder where he's gonna park the car in qualifying!
Bluefish
29-07-09, 07:40 PM
great news, although pity about massa nice guy, bring it on.
Will Bernie still take the same stance with "Schumacher made F1 boring"...will he heck! Bernie will exploit this terribly to gain media attention and more publicity for F1!
fizzwheel
29-07-09, 07:57 PM
Seems pretty official link to the F1 site, but looks like he has to prove he is fit enough, as said elsewhere, he has got a dodgy neck after a motorcycle off...
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/7/9703.html
Can only be a good thing for the sport, but if he thinks he is in for an easy ride he's going to have a shock, he'll have a crop of fresh drivers all wanting to beat him.
Can only be a good thing for the sport, but if he thinks he is in for an easy ride he's going to have a shock, he'll have a crop of fresh drivers all wanting to beat him.
...and it's a street circuit which I don't think he's ever done! Run-offs are pretty much non existant so not an ideal track!
Tallguy
30-07-09, 06:18 AM
If I remember correctly, the test drivers Marc Gene and Luca Badoer were both F1 drivers from a few years ago. If I had those two plus Michael Schumacher on my payroll, I know whom I would choose.
Alpinestarhero
30-07-09, 06:49 AM
He's to remain until massa can drive again
think about this for a moment fight fans
Shumey at SPA!!!!
Shumey, in a ferrari
at
Monza
:smt030
glsuk1970
30-07-09, 07:45 AM
Amazing. Just what F1 needed after all the bull**** politics that's been tarnishing the sport recently. I really hope the FIA over-rule the one race ban dished out to Renault (not that they should be let completely off the hook, punish the team and not the drivers) then we'll have four world champions lining up on the grid in Valencia, all of whom have a shot at winning.
On the downside, there's still three weeks to go until race day :mad:
Alpinestarhero
30-07-09, 07:47 AM
no, on the upside...theres three weeks for shumey to get fit, race ready, thrash around in an older F1 car with the driver aids turned off and slicks fitted
come on shumey, show 'em how its done ;)
glsuk1970
30-07-09, 08:04 AM
Apart from his neck injury I reckon his fitness will be there or thereabouts. It wasn't that long ago he was still testing for Ferrari so my guess is he'll be on the pace pretty quickly.
I'd like to add at this point that I am in no way a Schumacher fan and I hope Lewis kicks his **** ;)
plowsie
30-07-09, 08:12 AM
It is gonna be fandabidosie :)
I for one used to hate the bloke, then took a view from a different angle and thought, no he is pretty good. Now, Kimi was doing fairly well at the weekend, they look back up to the pace...I'm putting a tenner down later on for Schumi to pick top three up...
Such joys we can look forward to Schumey throwing the toys out of the pram when he not as good as the rest of them and parking up in some wonderous new parking space. Or taking everyone else so he can win - just for the hell of it or taking the champioship runner out of contention becuase he can.
then again i maybe a complete schumey hating cynic (despite him being a really good driver and wld love to have been able see him tackle senna) and he might play ball and he might be as good as the rest of them to which i will take of my hat. I just hope that Ferrari don't start all their underhand tatics.
and I hope that Massa recovers really really quickly!
mackrilld
30-07-09, 08:45 AM
Ever since i found out about how he demanded that his fellow team mates could not pass/beat him in a race and had it in contacts. Never really supported him that much because if he is the world best why have that?
Hope he does not do the same as Mansell when he did a come back with Maclaren.
Supervox
30-07-09, 09:53 AM
Hope he does not do the same as Mansell when he did a come back with Maclaren.
I hope he does !!
I would love for the current 'kids' & some of his old contempories to stomp all over him !! :cool:
this kinda reminds me of Rocky VI
Wideboy
30-07-09, 10:07 AM
spent all his money already?
glsuk1970
02-08-09, 06:31 AM
Shamelessly stolen from ITV's F1 pages. Basically, the reasons I stopped watching F1 in the early 00's..
* Most world titles: 7 (1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
* Most consecutive titles: 5 (2000-04)
* Most grand prix wins: 91
* Most wins in a single season: 13 (2004)
* Most consecutive wins in a single season: 7 (2004)
* Most wins at the same race: 8 (French GP)
* Most wins with one team: 72 (Ferrari)
* Most wins from pole: 40
* Most pole positions: 68
* Most front-row starts: 115
* Most podium finishes: 154
* Most second place finishes: 43
* Most points finishes: 190
* Most points scored: 1,369
* Most points in a single season: 148 (from a maximum of 180, in 2004)
* Most fastest laps: 76
* Most fastest laps in a season: 10 (from a maximum of 18, in 2004)
* Most races led: 141
* Most laps led: 5,108
* Furthest distance led in a season: 2,085 miles (2004)
* Fastest race-winning average speed: 153.843mph (2003 Italian GP)
* Most consecutive podiums: 19 (USA 2001 to Japan 2002)
* Most consecutive points finishes: 24 (Hungary 2001 to Malaysia 2003)
* Most consecutive seasons with a win: 15 (1992-2006)
* Most consecutive wins from pole (6)
* Most ‘clean sweeps’ (pole, win, fastest lap): 22
* Largest points gap between champion and runner-up: 67 (2002)
* Earliest title winner: 2002 (in July, with 6 of the 17 races remaining)
* Longest continuous spell with one team: 11 seasons (Ferrari, 1996-2006)
* Most races with same team: 162 (Ferrari)
* Most time between first and last race wins: 14 years, 1 month and 1 day
* Never outqualified by his team-mate in 1992, 1993 or 1994
* Only driver to have finished every race on the podium: 2002
Trivia
* Won all his ‘landmark’ GPs, winning on his 50th, 100th, 150th and 200th GP starts
* Only events he failed to win were South African, Mexican and Turkish GPs
* His record of 91 GP wins is only one shy of the combined total of the next two most winning drivers, Alain Prost (51) and Ayrton Senna (41)
* Scored points in a remarkable 76.6% of all his GP starts
* Led 56.9% of all GPs he started
* Banned or disqualified from more races than anyone else (banned from two races and disqualified from another in 1994; excluded from 1997 world championship results for collision with Jacques Villeneuve)
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