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Ralf has no support; in the paddock at least!
Topic Started: Aug 19 2007, 02:51 PM (332 Views)
Paul_Murtagh
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In this month's F1 Racing, they revealed that they asked 100 people in the paddock whether or not Toyota should re-hire Ralf Schumacher. 81 people said no, 18 said they didn't care and only one said yes.

So should Toyota decide not to re-hire Ralf, will he have a future in the sport with so little support in the pit lane?
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Paul_Murtagh,Aug 19 2007
03:51 PM
81 people said no, 18 said they didn't care and only one said yes.

And that was Ralf.....

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By the end of the season he will have more points than Trulli. It's happened the last 2 seasons. If Ralf goes, Trulli has to as well.
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It's funny how Trulli has been the one who has stood out these last two years (the second places at the start of 2005, and strong driving in 2006 when the car was poor), but Ralf always manages to amass more points somehow. On paper Ralf has been the better driver, although they have been quite evenly matched, but watching them you would think Trulli was the better.
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Trulli's nothing special. That is the problem. He qualifies well occasionally but what else does he do? Toyota need 2 new drivers, 2 drivers who look interested in racing.
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Ralf has been superb in recent races, if it wasn't for poor reliability or getting punted out he probably would have overtaken Trulli already
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I wouldnt be surprised if f1 racing made that up, they hate Ralf and take every oppurtunity they can to put him down. Its sick really, if you have the magazine there is a story that the FAT BISH told Ralf "go f**k off" because Ralf asked him to try and cut the slack down on him and his team. Ralf has been driving brilliantly lately much better than Trulli.
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I think they are out of order in that issue, yes.
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I do sometimes question the quality of some of the arcticles in F1 Racing, I have read some bullsh*t in it in the past and the first few paragraphs of that Ralf arcticle is one of those. But thats a debate for the F1 media section.

Onto this topic however.........

The pattern I notice is that Ralf is average in the first half of the season and then in the second half of the season he is superb and this is what we are getting now.

I think Ralf is one of the best drivers on the grid when he is at his best, its just a shame it doesn't happen all of the time, there were some times at Williams before 2004 when he was brilliant, he was often let down by a very unreliable BMW engine and then BMW blame Williams for the lack of success.


I don't any teams are going to take a risk on Ralf, Torro Rosso might have done but they have confirmed both their drivers, maybe Prodrive? I think Ralf will convince Toyota to keep him on and we will see a similar performance pattern from him next year.
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dcoulthard19,Aug 19 2007
06:58 PM
The pattern I notice is that Ralf is average in the first half of the season and then in the second half of the season he is superb and this is what we are getting now.

It is a bit of an odd pattern. When he was at Williams and at Jordan in 1997 he always started the season well but was out-performed by his team-mate by the end of the season (Fisichella in 1997, Button in 2000, Montoya in 2001, 2002 and 2003). Yet at Toyota it has went arse-about-face and he starts the season bad before performing well towards the end of the season
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DavidColthard II,Aug 19 2007
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I wouldnt be surprised if f1 racing made that up, they hate Ralf and take every oppurtunity they can to put him down. Its sick really, if you have the magazine there is a story that the FAT BISH told Ralf "go f**k off" because Ralf asked him to try and cut the slack down on him and his team. Ralf has been driving brilliantly lately much better than Trulli.

What do you expect? Without wanting to drag the thread too far off topic, F1 Racing has always had its favourites, and others that it likes to bash. Even as a non-Michael Schumacher fan it was plain to see that the magazine was often overtly harsh on Schumi, and the same is true of his brother. On the other hand, in my opinion they are guilty of ridiculously overrating Raikkonen and Button, to name but two. They may be a specialist F1 magazine, but that evidently doesn't exclude them from having an unbalanced editorial line.
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I only buy F1 for the pictures. But, I don't doubt that Ralph is unliked. He has a dour personality.
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Is the criticism of Ralf from certain quarters self-inflicted by him then or a form of bullying?
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I compare it to the Bourdais situation. Are they tired of seeing him the person, or him the driver. In Ralph's case it's the person. With Bourdais they're tired of him, the driver and seeing his rear wing always in front of them.

Plus, they won't miss Bourdais the person.
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Red Andy,Aug 19 2007
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It's funny how Trulli has been the one who has stood out these last two years (the second places at the start of 2005, and strong driving in 2006 when the car was poor), but Ralf always manages to amass more points somehow. On paper Ralf has been the better driver, although they have been quite evenly matched, but watching them you would think Trulli was the better.

Trulli always seems to start well, then goes off the boil halfway through the season. Much like individual races, as we know he's arguably the quickest man in F1 in qualifying, yet his race pace tails off halfway through the GP.

With Ralf the opposite is true, he seems to need half a season to get used to the car, but there's no doubt that when he does he's pretty quick.

So, dilemma for Toyota. Do they get rid of both in order to get a line-up that works all through the year, or do they stick with what they have ie two drivers who are very quick at different times of the year, in the knowledge that they probably will not be able to attract anyone better?
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