Enforcer wrote:kostas22 wrote:One last year of F1 for Schumi with Ferrari, anyone?
That's not completely insane, Schumacher would probably be at least 20 points ahead of Massa if his (slower) car had been reliable this year. Ferrari have obviously missed Perez and Massa is quite clearly on borrowed time. If it's a case of Massa or Schumacher for them (ie. they don't rate or can't bring in a younger driver like Di Resta) for 2013, with them supposedly interested in Kubica (if he's fit) or Vettel for the near future, then I'd take Schumacher if I were them.
I'd would imagine Fernando Alonso would be the biggest obstacle, though. He'd hardly want the former team spearhead there when he's #1 driver.
Nice to see Perez get a good move. Didn't see it coming at all. But if McLaren can build him a good car, I might have to stop disliking them, though.
I can't see that happening as the current management at Ferrari are quite hostile to Schumacher - Adam Cooper said, via Twitter, that he suggested that to one of Ferrari's spokesmen and was told that he had a better chance of seeing Ascari drive for Ferrari next year than Schumacher. Whilst Schumacher's marketing clout is still likely to be quite large, I think that he'll be heading into permanent retirement at the end of the year.
I think that the current rumours of Massa signing a short term contract extension are more likely given that Massa seems to be the preferred choice for Alonso - besides, given that Domenicali and Di Montezemolo have been so strict on alternative drivers, who else can they sign? They don't want an inexperienced driver, which seems to rule out figures like Di Resta and Hulkenberg (if Perez was too inexperienced, then Di Resta and Hulkenberg, with a similar number of starts to their name, are presumably similarly ineligible), whilst some of the recently retired drivers from the sport, like Heidfeld, don't seem to have registered on Ferrari's radar. The only driver who might fit the bill is Kobayashi, seeing that he has nearly double the number of starts to his name than Perez but is only marginally older, but sadly I expect that he'll be passed over because Perez has stolen the limelight at Sauber.
I predict the 2013 Merc will be unreliable. (Or maybe Ramilton will live up to his name.) But hey, if anything, Hamilton will probably do thousands of times better than Schumacher! Rosberg isn't too bad either. He's past his prime though. But enough about Merc. Right now, we need to address the fact that Perezmania is about to skyrocket in the next few months 
