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Old 11-21-2006, 10:17 PM   #1
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pretty good read.

The article tells you all about the truth on MS's retirement, how the political forces in Ferrari (basically di Montezemolo) forced him out.
I had already heard some stuff about this and their body language at Monza was pretty weird.

Though don't always believe everything, its always good to know as much as you can.

http://rapidshare.com/files/4335734/...ntBF1.pdf.html
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Old 11-22-2006, 03:38 AM   #2
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Cool, should be an interesting read, thanks
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Old 11-22-2006, 05:16 AM   #3
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Interesting read, but full of bullshit.

No sane man would have want Rossi to drive for Ferrari, especially the top management.

And some illogical things there too, for example at page6: Montezemolo invited the head of WPP Group at Maranello to visit HIM (the thing related to a new non tobbaco sponsor). But when that guy arrived he talked first with Todt and then with Luca :roll:

You see a lot of talking about how afraid was Luca about Todt`s growing power at Maranello, but if he was afraid, it would have been normal to give him even more more power by promoting him ? :roll:

A lot of bullshit regarding the overall financial situation at Ferrari too, the company boasts an impressive profit for a long time,and this wasn`t Todt`s work.
Kissing little Napoleon`s ass was 90% of the article, and although no one denies his remarkable qualities as an F1 team manager.

LOL at supidity: Brawn had decided to leave if Schumacher did so. That goes double for Martinelli too ? He left the team because Michael was out ?
At the end of the article another sample of logic: Todt`s job is afe because he has many friends inside FIAT and Montezemolo can`t sack him out. O-RLY :roll:
So in the beggining of the article Montezemolo was the one surrounded by other FIAT important persons but by the end Todt made a few friends too.

This guy is pretty funny, lacks logic but he`s funny.

On the other hand this article proves how skilled Luca is, Schumacher probably would have been able to run at this level for 1-2 years maybe, but for him the end is near.

So Luca did an intelligent thing by securing the services of the best driver (?) out there, for a longer period of time.

It`s stupid to try and make Michael the little sheep and Luca the big bad wolf, Michael had a real oportunity to run alongside Kimi, was he afraid of that ?
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Old 11-22-2006, 01:06 PM   #4
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Old 11-23-2006, 03:07 AM   #5
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Lot of BS IMO ... Lots have been said about that but I doubt any with sense would have push Mickael out seing how good he was this year, maybe not as good as in his best years but anyway in the top 3 ...
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Old 11-23-2006, 11:15 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by dani_d_mas
Well - it makes sense IMO.

We all know there has been only three top drivers this year - Alonsoo, Raikkonen and Schumacher - and they were all ending contracts in 2006... so it was 'now or never' for Luca di Montezemolo. Because if they didn't sign Raikko for 2007... there wasn't any other top driver avaiable until 2010 since Alonsoo and Kimi would be signing 3-year contracts...

Schumacher surely could be driving up to his 40, as he has said more than once... but Montezemolo had no options, and Schumacher didn't want Raikkonen as a team-mate either

Don't know if it's true or fake or bullshit or whatever - but it's not impossible... and we've seen worse things happening in the F1 circus :bah:
Exactly wht I thought and what I said Dani, weird things can happen in the world of F1
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