PastyHusty

10 reasons why Michael Schumacher will win the title this season!

1 - Ferrari are the richest team with the biggest resources and the best facilities. They have won the constructors' title for the last six years (a record) and Michael Schumacher has won the drivers' title for the last five (a record). They get the biggest slice of the teams' rights money because of their success. They get more money on top of that just for being Ferrari. The key staff are all still in place. How many more reasons do you need?

2 - In his sporting and technical directors Jean Todt and Ross Brawn, Schumacher is backed by two of the best organisational brains ever to have graced a pit wall. Together they have worked the ultimate miracle (short of sorting out our postal system) by making Ferrari focused and efficient.

3 - The champions are not introducing their new car until the fifth grand prix, guaranteeing maximum reliability and so points scoring potential during the traditionally unreliable early races. It should also ensure Ferrari have the best possible understanding of 2005's dramatic new engine, tyre and aerodynamic rules.

4 - ... And besides, major rule changes always play into the hands of the richest teams, who can devote most resources to finding the best possible technical solutions.

5 - Ferrari are the only top team using Bridgestone rubber, ensuring their car and tyres have been specifically designed to suit each other without compromise.

6 - The new rules requiring one set of tyres to last for both qualifying and the race will put the onus on drivers with sensitivity and intelligence. In these areas, as so many others, Schumacher is peerless.

7 - Ferrari have refused to heed their rivals' calls to cut costs by limiting testing in 2005. So, while the other teams are voluntarily doing only 40 days of on-track development work outside races, the scuderia will do as many as they like.

8 - Ferrari recently outmanoeuvred their rivals by signing a unilateral £60m extension to their contract with F1 rights holder Bernie Ecclestone, further enhancing their political and financial stability.

9 - Expected biggest rivals McLaren have been busy shooting themselves in the foot. One driver, Kimi Raikkonen, has twice been the subject of the sort of tabloid allegations that have never been made about clean-living Mikey. And the Finn's new team-mate, Juan Pablo Montoya, has been surprised to discover that his former bosses at Williams were not wrong when they suggested he was not fit enough.

10 - He's German and he's brilliant, OK?


Both sets of reasons have merit IMO..


You're strange.

Ooops.. I fed your Ferrari hat to the gerbils..