raphael123
13th April 2007, 10:38
I must applaud Martin Brundle for asking questions that the viewers want to see, even at the risk of upsetting the drivers or team bosses, which could end up in them refusing to give future interviews. It's very refreshing.
I loved the fact that when Martin Brundle was asking Massa if he will be allowed to win this race if Kimi Raikkonen was behind, Jean Todt felt the need to jump in and ask Martin Brundle to 'will you ask any good questions?!'.
I don't think it was that much of an absurb question to ask when you consider Ferrari have taken such action in the past, but Jean Todt seemed quite embarassed by the suggestion. When you consider Raikkonen gets paid what Schumacher was, and Massa is still on a 'measily' £5m a year apparently, yet was Schumi's 'dog' so to speak, I think it was refreshing to hear Ferrari say there wouldn't be team orders...at this stage of the season anyway.
Back to Brundle, I remember when he interviewed Schumacher, and also while commentating told the viewers his displeasure of the fact Schumacher was constantly cutting up people at the start, and Schumacher responded to that critizism by refusing to ever be interviewed by Brundle again. Hence Brundle use to tell us that nearly everytime he did the grid walk lol.
Anyway, to sum it up, it made me wonder at how happy Ferrari were to have such a No1 and No2 system, even though it bought them so much success. I highly doubt they regret it, however it does seem to suggest they knew it was morally wrong, which is something they have never given any sign of thinking along those lines before.
It was obviously implemented through Schumachers influence, hence why Benettons got rid of it when he left, and it was immediately implemented at Ferrari, and the same thing has happened with Ferrari, 2 races into the season making it clear there is no such system in place anymore. I will miss Schumacher, but if his departure has bought one good thing, I hope it's that we don't have such an extreme No1 & No2 system with a team like they did at Ferrari with Schumacher - though in fairness it wasn't half as bad after the controversy in Austria that year!!
I loved the fact that when Martin Brundle was asking Massa if he will be allowed to win this race if Kimi Raikkonen was behind, Jean Todt felt the need to jump in and ask Martin Brundle to 'will you ask any good questions?!'.
I don't think it was that much of an absurb question to ask when you consider Ferrari have taken such action in the past, but Jean Todt seemed quite embarassed by the suggestion. When you consider Raikkonen gets paid what Schumacher was, and Massa is still on a 'measily' £5m a year apparently, yet was Schumi's 'dog' so to speak, I think it was refreshing to hear Ferrari say there wouldn't be team orders...at this stage of the season anyway.
Back to Brundle, I remember when he interviewed Schumacher, and also while commentating told the viewers his displeasure of the fact Schumacher was constantly cutting up people at the start, and Schumacher responded to that critizism by refusing to ever be interviewed by Brundle again. Hence Brundle use to tell us that nearly everytime he did the grid walk lol.
Anyway, to sum it up, it made me wonder at how happy Ferrari were to have such a No1 and No2 system, even though it bought them so much success. I highly doubt they regret it, however it does seem to suggest they knew it was morally wrong, which is something they have never given any sign of thinking along those lines before.
It was obviously implemented through Schumachers influence, hence why Benettons got rid of it when he left, and it was immediately implemented at Ferrari, and the same thing has happened with Ferrari, 2 races into the season making it clear there is no such system in place anymore. I will miss Schumacher, but if his departure has bought one good thing, I hope it's that we don't have such an extreme No1 & No2 system with a team like they did at Ferrari with Schumacher - though in fairness it wasn't half as bad after the controversy in Austria that year!!