Schumacher cancels comeback, Badoer steps in

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You guys don't get it. The night before the qualifying, a man with a thick neck, thicker eyebrows, spanish accent and an awful white-yellow-orange suit was seen tampering with the springs in Rubens' car. It's obvious that his eyebrows give him divinatory powers, so he knew that, after 3/4 pi + 0.1 radians counterclockwise rotation of the screwdriver, the white car was going to drop the spring right when a red car followed him.

This man was also seen bribing another guy in Budapest on thursday evening. Curiously enough both men were wearing similarly coloured ugly clothes. The only words heard by witnesses that day are "loose" and "screw".

We now know the truth. This guy, evil enough to tamper with the medical history of some retired german, had it all under control:
  • Spring out
  • Massa out
  • Renault out
  • Codename Zapatero* out
  • Thick neck in red car in
  • World domination MWUAHAHAHA MWUAHAHAHAHA
Thank god Luca Badoer knew all this and is our saviour. Had the plans of the evil man with the thick neck worked out, we'd all be enslaved into a world of ugly clothes, thick eyebrows (or you grow them in prison), cider and Cabrales cheese. Finally all the soberano bull figures in Spain would be replace with gigantic sculptures of Flavio wearing a teeny weeny string thong.

God save Luca Badoer.

* Zapatero is the spanish equivalent of Schumacher. But I guess you already knew it.

EDIT for ISLAMATRON: Yes, you are right. It's his eyebrows that also give him seven tenths. Cut them and he'll go back to Yoong speed.
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Scotracer wrote: :cry:

Sad day.
Yup, I feel used.

He better not show his face in Valencia. :evil:

I'll smash my tv set 'di montezemolo style'.
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Man when I heard the breaking news on Sky Sports News at 8:45 am I couldn't believe it it took 15minutes for it to actually strike me and I thought no Schumi :( and went to bed a very disgruntled young boy.
I guess you can't risk your well being for driving fast but they could've made it clearer that if he felt comfortable or uncomfortable driving at those speeds under those forces so fans would know if he could make it or if he couldn't.
But Badoer well I shall say no more about him Piquet & Bourdais would've been better choices crashing into Fernando & Bourdais into Vettel & Buemi :twisted: Nando mus' be gutted seeing Badoer taking the seat :lol:

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I have no doubt in my mind that Ferrari is capable of taking advantage of Massa's unfortunate accident to play on the sympathies & naivety of the other teams to get a test of their 09 car for MS, even if they knew he would be incapble to compete.

I dont think it is far fetched at all.... Look at how they claimed that all the FOTA teams were ok with the test when that was clearly not the truth.

Good luck to Badoer, maybe he can get that singular point that has eluded him his entire career... but I think Bordais would be a better replacement, if he could ever cut out that hyper-negative attitude.

And yes it is Alonso's eyebrows that make him superior to NP Jr, cut them and he returns to regular spaniard speed of Marc Gene.

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So, with such a severe injury from that motorbike accident, this is actually the first championship since Schumi retired that he wouldn't win: I had some doubts over the F60's performance, but now it's confirmed.
This means the grand total would've been 9 F1 World Championships.
(Provided he doesn't make a surprise comeback next year)
Funny how history repeats itself: right before he started collecting titles for Ferrari he just missed out on what would have now been his 10th F1 World Championship due to another injury, at Silverstone. This provides a funny taste of "symmetry" in his Ferrari career, perfect for the movie they are going to make about him in a few years.
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Schumi is great and all but I think you're overestimating how valuable a days testing with him would've been. Ferrari have two very competant drivers in the car every race, what do you suppose schumi would be able to tell ferrari that kimi and massa couldnt? I obviously don't doubt his racecraft and his ability to test and set a car up is probably the best there is but he's only human.

Besides aren't ferrari just about ready to give up on the f60 and concentrate on next year's car?

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ISLAMATRON wrote:
And yes it is Alonso's eyebrows that make him superior to NP Jr, cut them and he returns to regular spaniard speed of Marc Gene.

best, line, ever....

lol

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andartop wrote:So, with such a severe injury from that motorbike accident, this is actually the first championship since Schumi retired that he wouldn't win: I had some doubts over the F60's performance, but now it's confirmed.
This means the grand total would've been 9 F1 World Championships.
(Provided he doesn't make a surprise comeback next year)
Funny how history repeats itself: right before he started collecting titles for Ferrari he just missed out on what would have now been his 10th F1 World Championship due to another injury, at Silverstone. This provides a funny taste of "symmetry" in his Ferrari career, perfect for the movie they are going to make about him in a few years.
Am i missing a few years?! 9 titles?! 10?! forgive my obvious amnesia!

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James wrote:Schumi is great and all but I think you're overestimating how valuable a days testing with him would've been. Ferrari have two very competant drivers in the car every race, what do you suppose schumi would be able to tell ferrari that kimi and massa couldnt? I obviously don't doubt his racecraft and his ability to test and set a car up is probably the best there is but he's only human.

Besides aren't ferrari just about ready to give up on the f60 and concentrate on next year's car?
I think you are underestimating the value of a full day's testing when no other team has the same opportunity. Kimi stays drunk and when is asked by the engineers what he thinks about the car he mumbles
idontcareigottatakeashitwhileeatingicecream
... not really worth much.

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oj1983 wrote:
andartop wrote:So, with such a severe injury from that motorbike accident, this is actually the first championship since Schumi retired that he wouldn't win: I had some doubts over the F60's performance, but now it's confirmed.
This means the grand total would've been 9 F1 World Championships.
(Provided he doesn't make a surprise comeback next year)
Funny how history repeats itself: right before he started collecting titles for Ferrari he just missed out on what would have now been his 10th F1 World Championship due to another injury, at Silverstone. This provides a funny taste of "symmetry" in his Ferrari career, perfect for the movie they are going to make about him in a few years.
Am i missing a few years?! 9 titles?! 10?! forgive my obvious amnesia!
I just figured he was smoking the same stuff as Scania! :lol:


So eyebrows are to Alonso what long hair was to Samson? :?
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mx_tifosi wrote:
oj1983 wrote:
andartop wrote:So, with such a severe injury from that motorbike accident, this is actually the first championship since Schumi retired that he wouldn't win: I had some doubts over the F60's performance, but now it's confirmed.
This means the grand total would've been 9 F1 World Championships.
(Provided he doesn't make a surprise comeback next year)
Funny how history repeats itself: right before he started collecting titles for Ferrari he just missed out on what would have now been his 10th F1 World Championship due to another injury, at Silverstone. This provides a funny taste of "symmetry" in his Ferrari career, perfect for the movie they are going to make about him in a few years.
Am i missing a few years?! 9 titles?! 10?! forgive my obvious amnesia!
I just figured he was smoking the same stuff as Scania! :lol:


So eyebrows are to Alonso what long hair was to Samson? :?

Well, he did get 7, right?
Add one that he would've got in 2007 if he had not retired..
And another one in 2008 - oooh, especially that one he wouldn't have missed for anything in the world...
And theoretically, he could still win this year's title..
But not anymore!!!
:lol: :lol: :lol:

With all the BS flying around in this forum lately, I just thought I'd throw in a small contribution!!!

And don't forget: it's not what I - or anyone else for that matter - smoke, it's just the summer brake!
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Is Schumi's neck injury really that serious? I mean, if Schumi is given another month or so for neck-strengthening exercise and therapy, will he be able to recover from that injury? I really hope so. As such, we can have Badoer racing in Valencia and Marc Gene racing in Spa (to be fair for both of them). After he has fully recovered from that neck injury, maybe Schumacher can race in Monza or Singapore. [-o< [-o<

£12,000 crash helmet with new design..... Let's hope that it is not a complete waste and he gets to use it in F1.
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alvinkhorfire wrote:Is Schumi's neck injury really that serious? I mean, if Schumi is given another month or so for neck-strengthening exercise and therapy, will he be able to recover from that injury? I really hope so. As such, we can have Badoer racing in Valencia and Marc Gene racing in Spa (to be fair for both of them). After he has fully recovered from that neck injury, maybe Schumacher can race in Monza or Singapore. [-o< [-o<
http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/n ... 2657.shtml you could be right

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twitter wrote:
sniffpetrol: Haaang on. Schumacher was never returning to F1. It was just a scam so he and Badoer could get FREE GOES at that karting track.
:lol:

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modbaraban wrote:
twitter wrote:
sniffpetrol: Haaang on. Schumacher was never returning to F1. It was just a scam so he and Badoer could get FREE GOES at that karting track.
:lol:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

lol the level of speculation and conspiracy theory is getting pretty ridiculous, but I might as well add to it!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77626

if alonso couldnt handle lewis as a team mate i'm not sure how well he'll cope at ferrari with michael!!