Schumi the savior returns...
I have been a Ferrari fan ever since I started watching F1 way back in 2003, the same year I started following Football, EPL to be more specific, maybe Red is just my colour, Ferrari and Liverpool...
Love for F1 (and Ferrari) was more to do with love for Schumi... Back then Schumi needed to win 3 out of last 4 races and he still might not win the title, with Montoya being his closest competitor. Schumi goes on to win 3 in a row, dedicating the race win for the 2nd one to his mother, who passed away before the race. Schumi needed 1 point from the last race to ensure he won Driver's Championship over Raikonen, and guess wat the SOG came 8th and got the 1 point he needed...
Since then I was a die-hard Schumi fan...For his last 2 yrs, Schumi was not able to win the championship in a ferrari that was struggling to match the pace of the renault of Fernando Alonso. Still in his last season, in the latter half Schumi started giving Alonso a run for his money and was in with a chance to win the title, till in the penultimate race, the ever reliable Ferrari engine gave way and Schumi watched as Alonso went past him to clinch the race win, and with it the championship, as Schumi was required to win the last race, and hope Alonso didnt finish. That was in Sept 2006, and for me F1 was no longer the same...no more hearing the words echo from the television screen "The Flying Ferrari of Micheal Schumacher"...F1 just wasnt the same...
Sure I still followed F1 and still supported, but Massa and Raikonnen werent Schumi...and u missed that presence in the pit lane...
Sure I would cheer for Kimi or Massa winning, infact would pray for them to win, but it was no more tat a race could make or break my day...
I was happy when Kimi won the championship, and really heart-broken when Massa lost the title at the last turn... Finally felt that somehow, F1 could still be exciting, and I would still be keen to follow it...
But somehow this year has been disappointing, with Ferrari struggling, McLaren struggling, the diffuser-row, Hamilton's liar-gate scandal and ever stupid Mosley, all resulting in the season being more or less boring, i was not missing watching F1, as it is it was difficult to make time for it...
Until a friend called me asking whether I watched the qualifiers for Hungarian GP, that I got to know abt Massa's horrific accident and was praying for him to get well...soon news abt his being ok started to come out...alongwith the rumours of Schumi replacing Massa behind the steering of F60...
It was after these rumours that I was really hoping for Schumi's return, looking for something to make F1 exciting again...
Voila... Schumi confirmed that he will help out Ferrari in its hour of need...a news that made my day, and has left me counting days for Valencia GP... Schumi had stopped competing but couldnt stop loving the sport, by continuing testing, becoming Ferrari advisor, even trying his hand at moto racing, to purge that desire to race again.
And his announcement to return to F1 has certainly raised a lot of questions, how well would he be able to fare in the F60 for the 1st time, will he be competitive in a struggling ferrari, will he beat Kimi, Hamilton, Alonso, or even Button, Vettel, Webber...Can he score points, and will he considering coming out of the retirement permanently..will he stay on for 2010?
Schumi's return addresses the immediate problem faced by F1, where a race just 1 yr old is not able to sell tickets...And thus Schumi's second-coming can be called as the return of the savior of F1...
And above all I would get to hear the words "Flying Ferrari of Micheal Schumacher" again...cant wait for it...For me the most exciting day in sports entertainment...
Love for F1 (and Ferrari) was more to do with love for Schumi... Back then Schumi needed to win 3 out of last 4 races and he still might not win the title, with Montoya being his closest competitor. Schumi goes on to win 3 in a row, dedicating the race win for the 2nd one to his mother, who passed away before the race. Schumi needed 1 point from the last race to ensure he won Driver's Championship over Raikonen, and guess wat the SOG came 8th and got the 1 point he needed...
Since then I was a die-hard Schumi fan...For his last 2 yrs, Schumi was not able to win the championship in a ferrari that was struggling to match the pace of the renault of Fernando Alonso. Still in his last season, in the latter half Schumi started giving Alonso a run for his money and was in with a chance to win the title, till in the penultimate race, the ever reliable Ferrari engine gave way and Schumi watched as Alonso went past him to clinch the race win, and with it the championship, as Schumi was required to win the last race, and hope Alonso didnt finish. That was in Sept 2006, and for me F1 was no longer the same...no more hearing the words echo from the television screen "The Flying Ferrari of Micheal Schumacher"...F1 just wasnt the same...
Sure I still followed F1 and still supported, but Massa and Raikonnen werent Schumi...and u missed that presence in the pit lane...
Sure I would cheer for Kimi or Massa winning, infact would pray for them to win, but it was no more tat a race could make or break my day...
I was happy when Kimi won the championship, and really heart-broken when Massa lost the title at the last turn... Finally felt that somehow, F1 could still be exciting, and I would still be keen to follow it...
But somehow this year has been disappointing, with Ferrari struggling, McLaren struggling, the diffuser-row, Hamilton's liar-gate scandal and ever stupid Mosley, all resulting in the season being more or less boring, i was not missing watching F1, as it is it was difficult to make time for it...
Until a friend called me asking whether I watched the qualifiers for Hungarian GP, that I got to know abt Massa's horrific accident and was praying for him to get well...soon news abt his being ok started to come out...alongwith the rumours of Schumi replacing Massa behind the steering of F60...
It was after these rumours that I was really hoping for Schumi's return, looking for something to make F1 exciting again...
Voila... Schumi confirmed that he will help out Ferrari in its hour of need...a news that made my day, and has left me counting days for Valencia GP... Schumi had stopped competing but couldnt stop loving the sport, by continuing testing, becoming Ferrari advisor, even trying his hand at moto racing, to purge that desire to race again.
And his announcement to return to F1 has certainly raised a lot of questions, how well would he be able to fare in the F60 for the 1st time, will he be competitive in a struggling ferrari, will he beat Kimi, Hamilton, Alonso, or even Button, Vettel, Webber...Can he score points, and will he considering coming out of the retirement permanently..will he stay on for 2010?
Schumi's return addresses the immediate problem faced by F1, where a race just 1 yr old is not able to sell tickets...And thus Schumi's second-coming can be called as the return of the savior of F1...
And above all I would get to hear the words "Flying Ferrari of Micheal Schumacher" again...cant wait for it...For me the most exciting day in sports entertainment...
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