Personally I’m torn about him returning to the sport. On the one hand he’s the reason I started watching F1 in the first place and I don’t think there is anyone currently on the grid that will come within a whisker of changing his records. Schumi is a very proud German and I’d imagine the thought of him driving for Mercedes with his right hand man in F1 in Ross Brawn at his side, well he must be chomping at the bit. I’ve never seen him race and if he signs I’m at Spa next year come hail, rain or shine…
On the other hand, he is a little older and he has been out of the cockpit for 3 years and I genuinely worry that this could all end in disaster and thats the last thing anyone wants to see happen. Plus the man has spent so much of his time being apart of Ferrari not just as a winning driver but you can tell how much he loved driving for them and how much the support of the tifosi meant so much to him, the fact that he was a German driving for an Italian car company. I always imagined him finishing his F1 career with Ferrari and all the history that entails. I worry about this move but at the end of the day he is the 7 time world champion so he knows best whether he’s up to the challenge or not…Can’t wait to hear what happens next…

Ross heading over to corporate robots at Mclaren? Please, if He cant stand Nick Fry, then its hell at Mclaren.

And to wait till February when the first tests start is not going to happen, they would have signed their two drivers by then. Either way he wont be able to know for sure if the car is good enough.

This risk is part of F1, always has been. Its the calculated risk based on available pre-season factory data and prior year a driver has to take into account before taking the plunge.

The only difference here Schumacher’s skill sets would crush 2nd rates like Hamilton.

He wont need to extort Mercedes for this race drive. He will his steady incomes by just being Mercedes brand promoter and a direct rival against Ferrari. Its about competition and money is not going to be a factor. You don’t need to be an insider to realize this.

This is why Ferrari will do everything to stop this from happening. All this talk of his undying love for Ferrari is just wishful thinking by terrified Ferrari fans.

What I am interested in is how long before they sack Alonso maybe even Massa when the next money laden star comes along. Vettel has been a Ferrari target but now it may not happen as its obvious that the people who lead the new Ferrari have long failed sanity checks.

Look at the Mclaren F1, when it first raced competitively it won, and its a legend by itself. There is nothing so overtly great about Ferrari. Its Ferrari fans blowing hot air when they see rivals upstaging them.

Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Jaguar have all have their own legendary tales to tell. So just what makes Ferrari so special? Nothing, its just what their fans say nothing more. All this ‘legend’ talk its just bloated fan hype.

There are other super-cars out in the market that even rival many of Ferrari’s creations technically, so this claim of superiority through ‘legend’ is hogwash.