Comments on: Schumacher returns to Formula One

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:51:54 +0000

Toxic_Horse Says:
July 30th, 2009 at 11:39 am
“I am referring to the time he deliberately crashed into Damon Hill to insure his championship victory. Among other things.”

How much was the premium and excess Toxic Horse? I guess if models etc can insure body parts and the like I can’t see why drivers can’t insure a Championship Victory! TVFPIC

By: Richo

Richo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:35:04 +0000

Anthony – JV was in talks with Paul Morris, but he decided against coming down under because he didn’t want to uproot his family from Canada. He never drove a V8 supercar, negotiations never got that far.

Pink drove a Holden Performance Driving Centre commodore with mild performance upgrades and a roll cage, not a proper V8 Supercar, where do you get this rubbish from?

By: mark

mark — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:46:16 +0000

THE KING IS BACK AND READY TO WHOOOOOOOOOOOOP SOME ASS!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:28:31 +0000

Apparently; Jacques Villneuve also tried out with Supercheap Racing to take Paul Morris’ seat.. according to reports his performance was impressive and he was excited about the possibility of being part of the competition. Makes you wonder why Morris opted for Tim Slade?

The only reason I can think of is that Morris didn’t want to be replaced by someone whose lap times were better than his….

Which would also include pop star Pink – who was also faster than Morris when she visited QLD on her recent tour. ha ha

By: Richo

Richo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:11:11 +0000

Damon Hill is a guy who Jaques Villinueve IN HIS ROOKIE SEASON made to look slow, JV almost beat damon in his first ever grand prix, only mechanical drama’s cost him the race.

Jaques Villinueve is a complete hack, so to be beated by him…

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:01:18 +0000

This will generate a hell of a lot of promotion for the sport.
So many people will be incredibly curious to see how he performs. The media will follow him like a hawk.

This is the Greg Norman comeback of F1

By: mad max

mad max — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:36:37 +0000

Toxic Horse, we all know that Damon Hill was a reasonable second string driver, at best. If he had any racing brains then he would not have tried to pass Shui when he did. He would then have been a 2 time world champ. Yes I know he won the championship but then it was the car (he had) that made him look waaaaaaay better than he is/was. Fairdinkum any half decent F2 driver would have won it that car. Like somebody else said, why did Frank let him go if he was any good?

By: My Cars Called T-Rex

My Cars Called T-Rex — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:29:15 +0000

Ferrari could have got those motorsport mercenarys,TEAM VODAPHONE to do the job.

By: Richo

Richo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:57:54 +0000

also, testing is banned this year in F1, so any new kids coming in don’t have the opportunity to drive the car first, the first chance they would get in the car would be on the Friday of the GP weekend. No one outside of the 2 GP drivers and the 2 Ferrari test drivers have driven a Ferrari F1 car in over 2 years… except of course Mr. Schumacher, hence he is the ONLY choice as the two test drivers where never proper racers

By: Richo

Richo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:56:33 +0000

Ferrari have no need to put a young up and comer in the car would no doubt feel an unbearable weight of expectation and most likely tear up millions of dollars worth of equipment when they already have their 2010 and beyond driver line up finalised, which is Alonso and Massa with the remaining year on Kimi’s contract being bought out. Even if Massa can’t race next year, they always have the option of retaining Kimi’s services.

Ferrari have never had unproven drivers race for them, any young up and comers they have on their books they always farm out to other teams, eg Massa was farmed out to Sauber for a year before joining Ferrari to gain experience