Will Michael Schumacher retire this year?
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Yes!
He will announce it after the italian GP on Sunday. Kimi Raikkonen is likely to be his replacement. Why do I say this? Well, Ferrari have said they are revealing the 2007 lineup on Sunday and Flavio Briatore (Renault) said he missed out signing Raikkonen. Briatore said that Raikkonen had signed a pre-contract with Ferrari - so where else will he go!
ps. it is about time too - it is very hard to teach your children the value of sportsmanship when the best driver (okay, so I admit it!) has to cheat to get his own way - especially as he really has no need to do so!!! Good riddance, I say!
I think he will if he wins the Championship
I would say yes. What more does he have to prove? He has more money than a lot of countries, so it is time to kick back with the family and enjoy the spoils. Look for him to get into politics- he is a "Schu-in."
no he wont
I agree with G Man..If he wins the Championship he will. But with the announcement coming Sunday after the race my guess is he will retire if he doesn't win the race. If he wins, then I think he will stay in F1.
I hope he stays for the sake of the sport. I'm a Kimi fan and would love to see Kimi and Alonso at McLaren Mercedes. Michael has so much left in him. Why leave?
Hopefully not, best driver ever.
i mite be wrong but i think he mite if not he will nxt year
I hope so..he is a brilliant driver, no doubt about it, but he cheats!
probly not
I really hope he will.
I'm tired of seeing him on the track or in press conferences. I'm tired of seeing his sausage-like face.
hopefully
he will let everbody think he is going to and then say he is staying. with a bit a luck we will find out after the race in Monza on Sunday.
If he wins the championship then he probably will, if he doesn't then he might stay. There is talk of him going to Sauber for a "final showpiece year" where he will earn a fortune and so will Sauber as everybody will want a piece of him in his last ever season as a driver.
He's no longer allowed to say 'honestly', so, without that august adverb, he has to retire at the end of the season.
L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, has speculated that he could become an Admiral in the Swiss Navy or an apprentice lexicographer in Geneva.
'rheboi' wants someone to find him 'a champion who hasn't' (done something bad).
Hmm, let me think; how about Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Mario Andretti, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Jochen Rindt . True, times were simpler when they raced, but they were gentlemen, all.
I think he will announce that 2007 will be his last year. F1 still needs a champion like MS and as others have pointed out he has done things that are bad - however find me a champion who hasn't - F1 isn't for saints - Alonso deliberately drove off track to put dirt onto it to prevent Kimi from setting a better time. Senna deliberately crashed into his own team mate Alain Prost to win a championship yet everybody seems to forget this? Yes MS crashed into JV at Jerez but DIDN'T win a championship yet everybody goes on and on and on about it?
Scumbagger isn't jumping, Ferrari's pushing him out. Better to live the lie of "retirement" than to be tossed out the door.
Scumbagger wasn't even the best of his era, never mind all time. He only has one legitimate title (2003), the rest were all due to the car.
Do you know why neither Senna, Prost, nor Piquet won seven titles? Because they were racing AGAINST EACH OTHER. Who did Scumbagger beat with equal cars? A young Raikkonen and Couthard, that's it.
The greatest champions won with cars equal to their top rivals (Hakkinen, Prost, Senna, Piquet, among others) or they won titles with cars WORSE than the car their opponents drove (Hakkinen, Prost, Senna, Piquet, among others).
In 2003 Scumbagger had an equally best car, that's the only title he earned. That's as many legit titles as Jacques Villeneuve has.
Good riddance to the cheating scumbag.
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Let's hope so. His time has gone, we need new young bloods in there to spice it up again. Rosberg, Kovalainen & Piquet jnr are the future.
We'll know tomorrow night.
My guess is that he will retire. If you read the comments from other drivers on the F1 web site, it seems that they would like him to stay, but sort of expect him to go. Raikennen must know something, because he can't go to Renault, and it would be boring to stay at McLaren with Alonso, so he must be going to Ferrari, with Massa who will stay.
If Rosberg stays at BMW, then the only unfilled places are at Midland and Torro Rosso, and of course the second McLaren seat. Will De La Rosa keep that - I reckon so.
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