Michael Schumacher's Retirement

[swca92]

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/news ... _seat.html

According to this story, Michael Schumacher says that he retired from F1 so that Felipe Massa would continue to drive for Ferrari. Also, Schumi said that he would have had "No problem" racing Kimi Raikkonen in 2007. Do you think this is true? I must say I have my doubts. Nonetheless, I think this is a major talking point...

[raikkonen4ever]

Maybe that's not a problem for Schumacher because he must be still a number 1 driver at Ferrari if they put Schumy-Kimi in their lineup at 2007

But for Raikkonen that will be a very big problem

[Sanredrose]

I don't think Raikkonen would have decided to move to Ferrari if Micheal was still staying there.

[maltafan]

In his last year of racing, Schumacher did as many mistakes as he did in his whole career. I doubt if Schumacher and Kimi would have liked to race eachother in the same car.

[AzShadow]

When Kimi made his contract with Ferrari in 2005 he had no idea who he would be racing with and one option would have been Schumacher. So Kimi would have had no problem in doing that and probably Schumacher wouldn't have either. Of course it's true that if they had lined up, Massa's career would have ended up short. So maybe it just was the right time for Schumacher to retire from all aspects.

[iceman1]

MS retired because:
.He won the WDC For 7 Times
.He was 37 years old
.He wanted to spend More times with his Family
.He didn´t want intra-team rivalry with Kimi

[megasyxx]

maybe he didn't really wanted to retire, but was forced to because of the shake-ups within the ferrari organization, but i really can't imagine how strong a kimi-michael tandem would be.

[shailf1]

i would never think that michael would reitre because he fears that he would lose to kimi and then his reputation would go down. no drivers thinks of leaving the team only becasue of the fear from the team mate. and i guess there is no doubt that michael would beat kimi.

[Zack]

break;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HF4Co7qYTU

[blizzard]

MS retired because:
.He won the WDC For 7 Times
.He was 37 years old
.He wanted to spend More times with his Family
.He didn´t want intra-team rivalry with Kimi

perfect summary. nothing to add.

[Arrows_F1]

didn't he also retired because he didn't want to ruin Massa's career ?

[iceman1]

didn't he also retired because he didn't want to ruin Massa's career ?

oh yeah Right osweat: , Massa could Become a Test Driver For Ferrari

[Sanredrose]

Michael retired because he had enough of racing and he wanted to spend time in other activities. Don't try to attribute this to intra team rivalry and Ferrari shake ups !! I think Ferrari was completely shaked up in 2007 with spygate scandal, but not because of Schumi.

[Manny6]

He sat down because at that point he had acheived more than he could have
inmagine.
also the young guns were bringing a great amount of heat
it was clear he was no longer the only force in F1 Alonzo had
back to back, Kimi was knocking on the door.....He did it at the right
time Massa would have find a seat at a back marker team

[Chris-L]

I think Schumacher did the right thing. Retired at the right time.

However, just for speculations sake, I think he would simply blow Kimi wide open if he were to race last year and this year...

Just look at Massa pace to Kimi and compare that to Schumacher.