Who thinks Schumacher finally should retire?

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Originally Posted by jens

The issue here is the future of Mercedes.

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Agreed :up:

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Originally Posted by The Black Knight

For a 43 year old it is nothing short of impressive.

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Impressive it may be but age is irrelevant, as are past performances. Sentiment, we are always told, has no place in F1 never better illustrated when Ferrari put Badoer in their car. Performance and results are everything..

Schumcher has shown a lot more pace this year although whether this pace would have developed into the results people seem to assume is very subjective. Certainly, Paul Hembury was very impressed with his performance in Monaco and is tipping him for a win in the European GP. Wishfull thinking IMHO but he's entitled to whatever he thinks.

Someone made the points comparison on another thread about Button V's Hamilton. Worth noting that Nico V's Schumy is 298 V's 150.

At the end of the day, reliability and luck tends to even itself out and lets face it, Schumy had a lot of luck earlier in his creer but being outscored by your team mate by 2:1 over 2.5 years is a consistant trent in my opinion and I don't even rate Nico as a top flite driver.

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Originally Posted by Knock-on

I have no problem with Gazza's language, tone or content. I appreciate that these days the forum has become almost clinical in it's conversation but IMHO that is to it's detriment.

Sometimes I miss the old days when we could point out when people are defending the indefensible without having to use sanitised language. Hell, we could even use bad language, bad grammer or god forbid, bad spelling.

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dunnell will get you for that bad spelling comment.
But obviously I agree with your post.

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BTW Garry, I like post #122 but give up on Chop Chop. He's well done. ;)

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Chop Chop will cause some mental anguish to quite a few people here still :D

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

He may think he's being amusing, outspoken, iconoclastic or whatever, but in truth he's just plain rude. I don't think this is a positive trait in anyone. jens is quite right.

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I hope you had a good weekend and didn't get too drunk :

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Originally Posted by henners88

Theres not many fans of backmarkers (monkeys) on here, so I doubt he'll cause much anguish unless he is lapped again today and makes a meal out of getting out of the way of Nico and Co.. :p :D

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:laugh: Normal qualification is resumed. He has his old team mate behind him and Alonso in front. The potential for crashing is HIGH!!

While Schumacher's return has not been a failure I do think it is time to step aside. Paul Di Resta is now a much stronger driver and a prospect for the future who will put Rosberg under pressure and in turn move Mercedes towards the front on a more regular basis

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Originally Posted by Paul Crossling

While Schumacher's return has not been a failure I do think it is time to step aside. Paul Di Resta is now a much stronger driver and a prospect for the future who will put Rosberg under pressure and in turn move Mercedes towards the front on a more regular basis

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Consdering MS took a podium today, dare I say, it isn't looking like your post was exactly a quality post

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Originally Posted by henners88

I'd forgotten about Alonso being so far back lol. Well lets hope for some exciting mid field racing with plenty of anguish then :)

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http://i46.tinypic.com/hv9ul3.gif :p

Alonso, Vettel and Michael.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Consdering MS took a podium today, dare I say, it isn't looking like your post was exactly a quality post

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He benefitted from some great fortune otherwise would have been 7th or less. Strong drive but he was very lucky.

Usual quality of posting from you Garry. :p

He drove well and kept calm through all the chaos and deserved his podium. Lets hope this changes his luck and he can get a win.