Comments on: Schumacher to test GP2 car as warm up for F1 test

By: sam

sam — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:30:14 +0000

I disagree. The dude is so jealous of MS to the point where he obviusly was being bias in public domain.
Insanely unprofessional.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:26:57 +0000

Do you know why testing is banned?
To save the cost of developing CARS not to prevent drivers from practicing.

In this case, it’s a GP 2 car not an F1 car. No team benefit there. And for the record, F1 drivers FIA didn’t have any rule that prevent F1 drivers from driving cars or planes.

By: russ

russ — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:33:36 +0000

cut him some slack?
you are kidding right?
[mod].The fia is back at its favoritism.

By: rpaco

rpaco — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:55:24 +0000

” After all when he started his career, he jumped from Mercedes Sportscars directly in F1 car. ”
Yes but he was 30 years younger then, now he is middle aged and bits of him will have slowed down.

By: rpaco

rpaco — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:40:31 +0000

Yeah probably, I knew someone would know.

By: James W

James W — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:18:08 +0000

He had doubts about his neck before thinking about coming back in August.

I really want this to happen, I’m just worried that there is a 0.01% chance it wont happen.

By: Jason C

Jason C — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:00:02 +0000

I think you underestimate the difficulty of doing that.

What I’m trying to say is that here is the Schumacher, on the face of it he loves racing, doesn’t have to prove anything and so this is like a little adventure for him. But it’s not the case: it’s the same old Schumacher, pushing every conceivable angle to try and gain that advantage. It’s admirable in a competitor that he’d do that, but it’s also questionable whether anyone other than he would have been able to swing this test.

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:33:42 +0000

Re: Jose & JA reply under comment #2. Just doing a bit of re-reading, and ran across the stat on the Wikipedia article for the 1994 Australian Grand Prix that it was the “last time to date that a driver over the age of 40 has won a Grand Prix”.

I wonder how long that statistic will last….

By: lip_iceman

lip_iceman — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:38:04 +0000

According to Bild, Schumacher has quadrupled his €7m (the retainer for this year) with personal sponsorships.

Going from no sponsors and a slim budget (as Brawn), Mercedes has snatched the Petronas title sponsor from numerous teams… A big sponsor like that wouln’t have come to a Heidfeld/Rosberg lineup

By: Lola

Lola — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:16:15 +0000

The other drivers could do the same with other single seater or they could just hire/rent another gp2 car, most of them could afford it out of their own pockets, it is just a matter of will.