By Adrian Musolino
August 30th 2009 @ 5:07am
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Ferrari pays the price for their arrogance
Luca Badoer has become the laughing stock of Formula 1, through no fault of his own. Languishing at the bottom of the timesheets having replaced the injured Felipe Massa, what more were we to expect from a driver who has been out of racing for a decade?
The fault is with Ferrari and their haphazard decision [...]
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Marlon said | August 30th 2009 @ 8:43am | Report comment
What about the risk they took with the young Eddie Irvine ??…and would you call Massa a safe choice when he was signed a few years ago ????…as usual, lets try and knock the great teams down….Sure, Ferrari rushed the Schumacher return but it gave the sport some great press and attention….or would you rather return to the Mosley Nazi headlines ????
Adrian Musolino said | August 31st 2009 @ 5:14am | Report comment
Marlon, Eddie Irvine was handpicked by Michael Schumacher and Jean Todt as a capable number two who wouldn’t worry Schumacher with his pace, so it was hardly an inspired choice considering Irvine had proven his capabilities at Jordan. Likewise with Massa who served as a Ferrari tester and had spells at Sauber before he was promoted to the Ferrari race team.
Both were relatively conservative choices.
megatron said | August 30th 2009 @ 1:16pm | Report comment
Badoer was a bad choice an they know it. Poor decision making. Give a youngster a run. Hope Schumacher comes back now.
T said | August 30th 2009 @ 8:50pm | Report comment
It was, in fact, a thank you for his years of servitude according to Luca Montezemolo.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21712.html
Reading between the lines, it is more likely that once Schumacher dropped out they had little time to agree a contract with any other driver and therefore fell back on the driver they had. Why they haven’t replaced Badoer for Spa is anyone’s guess. Perhaps they thought he’d do better on a track he’d driven before?
megatron said | August 30th 2009 @ 11:06pm | Report comment
Badoer coming last and four seconds slower than his teammate. Fisichella having the race of his life. Bet he will be in Ferrari very soon. Probably lifted to prove the point.
Greg Russell said | August 31st 2009 @ 5:01pm | Report comment
As armchair sport fans we all like to titillate ourselves by thinking that we possess some special insight. But honestly, there is no special insight in concluding that Badoer was a poor choice, in fact there is no insight at all: it is plain obvious. Under such circumstances, one really has to ask whether there is an agenda that we are missing. For example, are Ferrari using Badoer’s poor driving as a way of secretly testing for next year? From what I understand Braun’s success this year has been based on testing that they did while out of contention last year.
I write this as someone who knows next to nothing about motorsport. But what I do know is that people are rarely as stupid as they look.