Schumacher to team up with Brawn, buy the Scuderia Toro Rosso Team???

...when the fat lady sings.......

 

I think this would be fantastic and I would love to see that happen...


...however my crystal ball shows me a different scenario for Brawn and MS.

 

I hope Michael will take a few minutes to read a bio of Alain Prost

 

i thought everything was denied a few weeks ago?

 

Which is, of course, *exactly* the reason it may very well be true

Personally, I'd love to see it happen. OK, Prost "struggled", but Sir Jackie didn't do too badly.....

Cheers,
Ian

 

One win isn't much to show for.

Drivers normally don't make great race team managers. IIRC McLaren being the exception. Pretty much everybody else failed.

But MS and Mateschitz have so much money, they could take on that risk and run it for several years without getting hurt too badly.

 

I think it will happen. Did anyone honestly think that MS woul become a house husband and sit there and push the kids on the swing?

I know AP's tenure as an owner wasn't successful, but with the right people it could be successful...

 

yea, but i think the whole idea of MS retiring is to stay away from the grid. i have my doubts this will happen.

 

And Michael Jordan. Stay away, Michael. Michael raced cars. He didn't design them. He didn't build them. He didn't market them. Apparently when he says he'd like to give something back to Formula 1, he's referring to the hundreds of millions of dollars he earned as a driver.

 

Exactly. He has mentioned in an interview that he doesnt want to do a JeanTodt like job worrying night and day over the day to day issues of running an F1 team.

 

Imagine if Michael bought the team and brought Jackie Stewart and Niki Lauda and JV out of Retirement to race the cars. It would be the three stoogies on wheels. It would be complete insanity!

 

I'd have to respectfully disagree on that point - To many people he *was* Ferrari for the past few years. Furthermore, I reckon sponsors will be knocking his door down if he's prepared to be the "public face" of the team - Sure, he doesn't want the stress of a JT style position, but what a PR win for some deep pocketed sponsor.

And, as per the "F1 driver feedback?" thread herein, what an asset to have in your debrief sessions - I reckon he'd enjoy that task.

As usual, just my 02c,
Cheers,
Ian

 

Good points.


Is Jethro Tull going on tour any time soon?

 

Interesting point: I believe that was part of the original plan when Ferrari hired MS as "special consultant" and it looks he did just that in some of the winter test sessions, but it is doubtful that his input was much welcome: I read a brief interview with Mark Webber who thinks that idea is just an absolute insult to his successor and he (Webber) would hate nothing more than having the "nanny" sit in. He compared it to going out with your girlfriend while your ex girlfriend joins the party.

From what I'm seeing so far, if MS' feedback was ever the plan, it definitely has died by now.

 

I like Jethro Tull...

 

Wrong analogy. It would be like going out with your girlfriend while her ex-boyfriend tagged along...

 

Just another reason why Webber will never be any good

Cheers,
Ian

 

That's correct!

 

I did see he, along with the family, moved into his new digs.

 

quick knee jerk reaction/thought....I wonder if this will be a move by Ferrari to somehow have another team in F1 since Toro Rosso already uses Ferrari engines. This way the two teams can "compare notes" and have 2 times the info as other teams.

 

Hmmm So if this did happen, and STR - "SB" (Schumacher/Brawn) actually performed better than the factory how long do think that engine deal would actually last???

 

No but they beat out Metallica for a Grammy in the late 80s for the Metal category - no one ever thought that would happen but it did.