Official Not606 Japanese GP Chat and Predictions

Sadly for Vettel, he will not be able to resurrect Ferrari, the Italian team simply does not have the people in place, Schumacher had a team of smart Brits, Brawn and the likes.

Luca dismantled this with his arrogant pretentious attitude and tried an incestuous approach which has basically ****ed the team, will take more than a driver to get this right.

Not your wisest move Seb, most optimistic maybe.

 

Since when was hiring brits so important? Bit nationalistic there.

 

British engineering and design talent has won more WDC and WCC's than every other country in the world put together.

It's not coincidence!

 

Look at the history lad, ffs.

 

It also took Schumacher 4 years to win his first WDC with Ferrari, not for lack of trying of course.

 

"The likes" being a Frenchman, a South African and a Japanese tyre company.

 

Oh and yes, why don't we include the FIA if I remember correctly.

 

I'll give you Mosley but apart from Brawn they're then only Brits who were instrumental in Ferrari's dominance. They've got as much British influence now with James Allison as they did back then. Sure, Britain is the most successful nation in F1 but Ferrari are the most successful team and they've always been Italian.

 

I did't realise that Fry, Surtees, Berger, Hill, Andretti, Brooks, Stepney, Gurney, Collins, Fangio, Ervine, Raikkonen, Hawthorn, the list goes on. were Italians.

 

I can only assume that the Red Bulls have gone for a wet setup, surely they should be flying around a place like this

 

I don't think Seb wanted to be humiliated for a second season, TBH. On the other hand, he wants to emulate Schumi and has that self-belief, misguided or not. Horner looks shat-on, incidentally: what price loyalty, eh, Seb?

 

Slim chance of that I'd have thought, both know they can score significant points today, they only really need a 14 point lead going into the final race. Binning it could cost you the title now.

 

Yea Max, but why Ferrari !!! all Vettel had to do was up his game.

 

Ferrari was awful for the first few years how Schumacher challenged for the title in 97 and 98 with that car was amazing if he was in the Williams or McLaren these years it he would been all over after 10 races.

 

To be quite honest, I think because the idea of being the second Schumacher appealed to him. (Alternatively, you might think that he has a bruised ego from being beaten by Ricciardo, and/or consider that Red Bull are likely to go backwards what with Newey leaving and stuck with Renault engines).

 

Yea, I agree, but brave or silly move depending on your point of view, although what do you think about Newey turning up at Ferrari sometime in the not too distant future.

 

You know if Schumacher snaps back to it, he's gonna be like 'what the ****?'

 

Oh, I think it's a pretty rash move, but that's mostly because at this point there aren't really any sensible moves. Schumacher to Ferrari was a pretty rash move at the time.

As for Newey, not going to happen. Didn't want to move his family to Italy last time they approached him and his main reason for leaving Formula 1 was his stance towards the regulations and the perception that there's too many of them, which isn't changing any time soon, even if Todt is in power. I doubt highly he's done with F1 for good but I think it'll be a while before he gives it one final crack.

 

A no win situation for Vettel eh, not a cat in hell's chance of pulling off the equal to Schumacher.

 

People always go on about Newey and Brawn but I think their era is over now.


Also on the driver front it seems weird that Alonso, Raikkonen, Massa and Button are the old guard and soon to be on the way out. After that Hamilton, Vettel and Rosberg will be the F1 elders.