Schumacher returns...this should be fun!

[hairstream]

Looks like they need to institute mandatory HANS device in carting... saved Felipe.

lucky little guy...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... wheel.html

 

[FluffyChicken]

Should be interesting alright!!!
...
The ban on in-season testing means Schumacher will not be able to turn a wheel of the 2009 specification Ferrari before first practice on Friday 21 August.'

We'll have to wait and see......

That's not entirely true, the ban is only enforced for the tracks.
He can ride it anywhere else and sit in it all he likes, just not on the race tracks*.


*afaik


I think it's good for the PR best move they could do given they are nowhere in the ranks at the moment. He's never been away from the team and helps in the background so also not unfamiliar with the modern car, regs rules and others performance or how the team is running.

 

[daj]

He has called it off !!! :cry:

No return due to neck injury

 

[Khane]

He has called it off !!! :cry:

No return due to neck injury

alledged neck injury.

personally i dont think hes up to the task.

 

[tintin40]

Whoever released that to the press should be given a good talking to. What a pathetic statement. Alguersuari managed without a test, surely a seven times world champion can. All the sympathy lay with Ferrari after Massa got injured, but name calling and carrying on like a pork chop when they didn't get their way just rid them of any sympathy from me, at least.

I agree.
''It was for this reason Alguersuari, who drove an F1 car for the first time in Hungary, did not have the opportunity to familiarise himself with the Toro Rosso before he made his race debut.

"Williams sees no distinction between Alguersuari's situation and Schumacher's and feels any deviation from the rule would create a precedent for the future."

Still shame I couldn't wait to see him return and then hopefuly crash. He did hurt his neck in a motocycle crash earlier in the year.

 

[Dr S]

They don't need time in the car these days- the simulators are just so damn realistic. I heard a story about Mika Hakinen a few months back... He was back at McLaren for the day and he asked to have a go in the Sim. After about 40 minutes of driving around Jerez in this thing he decided to see what would happen if he he turned hard right into the barrier at 90 mph..... result?... One fractured wrist!

Schu would have been fine without testing the car, he had run in the 2008 car on slicks around Ferarri's test track which would have been a suitable test- probably more aerodynamic grip with the 08 but the 09 car has more mechanical grip.

The testing ban is total, no testing on any circuit- championship track or not. There are loopholes- demo's at the likes of Goodwood etc. But Ferarri cannot even run the current car on their own circuit

its a shame that we won't see if he would have been competetive, but an injury is an injury, and if it was going to make the problem worse I guess he made the right decision.

Si