Ferrari Mailing List: Re: SPOILER: Malaysian GP Qualifying - What are we going to do?

[jim (jimshadow]

WOW!!!!   Just watched it on TIVO and man was that fun.  

You would only hope that Ferrari would let it go and just have Kimi and
Massa race it out, but I think you are right Steve.  I'll bet they let it go
until at least Spain.  That is my guess.  Why, well considering that Massa
finished 6th from dead last and just drove a near perfect lap in Malaysia,
he's had to have put some doubt as to how clearly Kimi would be the #1
driver, if that's what Ferrari is thinking.  The question is, "how bad does
Massa want it?"   Can he put away races like Kimi demonstrated he can do
last week?  

 

Just my $0.02

 

JIM

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Jenkins [mailto:steve [at] stevejenkins.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 4:04 AM
To: JIM
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] SPOILER: Malaysian GP Qualifying - What are we going to
do?

 

SPOILER CONTENT!

 

Ok - the last few moments of qual were SWEEET! I was trying not to yell too
loud to wake Sleeping Beauty(TM) upstairs. Exciting stuff! Forza, baby!

 

But it got me thinking.... due to the commercialism that has changed F1 over
the past couple of decades, and the admitted importance to the teams of
winning the Driver's Championship (even more so than the Constructor's
Championship - which is  the wrong way of looking at it... but I digress),
there is going to have to come a point in the season where Ferrari has a
Pikachu moment and says "I choose YOU!" as the #1 driver. Who is "YOU" gonna
be, and how long in the season are they going to wait to make that
determination? Over at McLaren (who are looking like the rebirth of the
Silver Arrows from the late 90s when Mikka and David were driving), it's
clear that Alonso is #1 (even though Hamilton looks REALLY good... but I
digress again).

 

Who's it gonna be, how are they gonna choose, and when are they gonna do it?

 

SteveJ

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