6.25.2007

the Ferrari Crisis and its 60 anniversary

The whole thing would be a huge, happy and fabulous party if there were not so many rumours going around.
It all started with the "legal investigation" toward Nigel Stepney. The scandal was then followed by the rumor of dumping kimi next year.
Pitpass first reported this rumor, then ABM and PF1 joined pitpass and started to screw it up. A few days ago, Autosport Magazine also published similar report.
Anyway, I am hoping Ferrari can replace Kimi next year. He can't prove that this 51 million salary worths its value. Like a lot of analysis before, he only achieved his best in the Aus GP, when Felipe was not ready, ALS was not used to the new car and Lewis was absolutely brand new to this sport. When those three drivers all woke up after couple of weeks, Kimi can not beat them.
Well, i also know it may not be quite fair to say that 'cuz Kimi is already one of the top 5 drivers (but definitely not top 3) in this sport and we simply kept on putting him into Michael's shoes and judging him with the standard of Michael. However, if he can't even drive as well as Felipe, hard to imagine any more reason for keeping him in Ferrari.
As for the replacement, Pitpass seemed to hint that Sutil has won Ferrari's interest. And ABM (also PF1 'cuz PF1 cited ABM for the news) suggested Rosberg and maybe Vettel. The German press was quite interested to put another German driver into Ferrari. The also suggested Michael, but our dearest Michael immediately refuted this suggestion.
Anyway, no matter who is the next Ferrari driver, I do wish we have a "next", but not Kimi Raikkonen.

Putting aside these rumors and chaos, there were several really exciting things happened last weekend.
First, of course, is the Ferrari 60 anniversary. Michael drove Formula One again!! He drove the F2004 which brought him the last WDC. It was so exciting to see him wearing gloves, helmet and driving a Formula One vehicle again! This weekend he will also drive a FXx in Magny-Cours and take Zidane for two laps. Hopefully SpeedTV can cover this event and let me see him again~Although I still cannot help to feel sad every time I see him after his retirement, I managed to cheer up and try to move my focus to the French GP this weeked.
I was also quite relieved for the Silverstone test last week. Rob Smedley finally showed up. I only found a picture with a person like him in the corner and simply it cannot be recognized. But I felt that he was there. Felipe did a really good job there and it seemed he was also lightened up. Finally yesterday, Peggy sent a picture with Rob standing right besides Felipe in Silverstone. Felipe looked happy and Rob, though Peggy said he was slimmer, finally was there. A lot of things happened and I know it wouldn't help if i just wish nothing went wrong. But I was really relieved to see Rob in the pit again. Many reports were questioning how much is Felipe's bad performance in North America related to the absence of Rob Smedley. Honestly, I would also like to blame the absence of Rob 'cuz I believe Felipe is good enough to handle the race and Rob is the perfect RE for felipe. Those two people cannot be seperated. Well, let's wait and see what will happen in Magny-Cours. Hopefully there will be a handful of pictures~:)

Pretty long already, gotta go now~

6.24.2007

first post...

my first post here in blogger~
google account is awesome~~hehe
gonna post more about F1 in the future~
and thanx for visiting!!