There has been a major reshuffle in the Ferrari team after the departure of M Schu..

lets hope the reshuffle wont hamper ferrari challenge 4 new WDC n WCC by new drivers

The most astonishing spat of all is the revelation from Ferrari's test and technical manager Nigel Stepney that he was 'open to offers'. Having served a thirteen year "apprenticeship" at the Scuderia clearly Nigel imagined that in the post-Schumacher era, with the sudden absence of Ross Brawn, that he would get some kind of promotion.

"I'm not currently happy with the situation within the team... I really want to move forward with my career and that's something that's not happening right now," he told Autosport magazine in a breathtakingly candid interview.
"Ideally, I'd like to move into a new environment here at Ferrari, but if an opportunity arose with another team, I would definitely consider it."

In football that would run under the headline: 'Stepney Issues Come And Get Me Plea' The fact that Nigel is prepared to go public with his concerns clearly indicates a huge fight with the team, and a difference between what he wants to do and what Ferrari are prepared to offer him. However the fact that he's talked about it indicates it might be a bit of a negotiating posture.

When Adrian Newey left McLaren for Red Bull, he didn't say he was unhappy with the team, he just got himself another job. A man with Stepney's experience could be invaluable at David Richards' new Prodrive F1 outfit and it wouldn't be hard for Nigel to get hold of David's phone number. Even we have it.

But the Dutch-owned Spyker team have now listed Van der Garde as one of their four test drivers sparking forth and indignation from Super Aguri.
In a statement, they said: "Super Aguri has a valid contract with Giedo van der Garde to drive for the team in the position of Friday and test driver for the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship. The contract was submitted by the SAF1 Team to the Contracts Recognition Board on 23 January 2007."

Both Mika and Shumi had Great sporting fightin sprit..

1st, we need to see which car has the best straight line speed 
That is crucial and will gave the team the Championship.

last time watched the news... was shocked tat former bmw sauber driver jacques villeneuve becomes a singer! gosh... cant imagine a former f1 champion suddenly turned into a singer... will schumi walk this road too??? haha!

well there's rumours alos that he'll be competing in NASCAR this year.

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Monday 4th December 2006
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The McLaren team are playing down their chances of success this season despite their early season pace.

Ron Dennis has clearly issued a decree forcing team members to tow the party-line which 'plays down' the Woking team's chances of success.

World Champion Fernando Alonso told Spanish network Telecinco that the MP4-22 is, "Not even close to ready for Australia and time is running out".

Alonso's team-mate Lewis Hamilton echoed his team-mates view, "There are many things that we still have to do before we get to the first race, that is for sure."

This comes as some surprise as bar the occasional teething problems the 2007 challenger has been quick and reliable.

McLaren's chief operating officer Martin Whitmarsh is the latest member of McLaren's personnel to jump on the bandwagon.

Speaking of the rain hindered final day of testing at Jerez he said,

"We have a much better understanding of where we are, and more importantly on what work needs to be done between now and Australia to ensure that we arrive in Melbourne in the best possible position."

"Although the timesheets seem to be favouring us we are fully aware of where we need to improve the cars performance during the forthcoming tests in Barcelona and Bahrain."

Earlier Alonso had said, "I hope that in Barcelona and Bahrain we can get it (MP4-22) set up properly in two weeks time."

It seems as if members of the team are not allowed to stray too far from what they read in the team's internal memo.

Alonso has clearly let his newfound status in the paddock go to his head as he wrote off his former team's chances in the title race, "Renault will start the year well, but they will get worse, as usual," he said.

At least he is on good terms with Renault then.

Ferrari driver Felipe Massa believes that based on pre-season testing BMW is the team to beat.

The Brazilian played down McLaren's excellent form while lauding the BMW F1.07.

"The McLaren surely looks fast, but in my opinion the BMW Sauber is the best of all at the moment," Massa told Gazzetta dello Sport.

"The McLaren is the fastest over a single lap, but as far as consistency is concerned the BMW is impressive even though they perhaps haven't the best reliability yet.

"For now I put them ahead of Ferrari and McLaren."

Massa remains confident over the Maranello team's progress saying, "We are in the situation we had expected,

"The car is demonstrating to be certainly quick and reliable too, even though we had some problems. However, we know how to solve them.

"We leave Jerez with some good things and some others not as good. The car is quick and there's nothing to worry about".

Kimi Raikkonen has joined the likes of Robert Kubica in complaining that the 2007-spec Bridgestone tyres do not suit his driving style.

BMW's Kubica was the first driver to voice his concerns over the harder Bridgestone compounds after running the tyres in December tests.

And when Autosport asked Raikkonen at Jerez whether he thought that the tyres suited his driving style the Finn replied, "No, not really".

"I think we need to work on the car to make it work for me," he continued. "It is getting better all the time but it takes time to get used to (the tyres).

"We still have some work to do; every day it is getting easier."

The Ferrari driver appeared unfazed at McLaren's domination through testing saying that the real test will come at the opening race of the season.

"We will need to wait and see in the first race.

"Then we can say who is really quick. I think it will be quite close," said Raikkonen.

Alonso has clearly let his newfound status in the paddock go to his head as he wrote off his former team's chances in the title race, "Renault will start the year well, but they will get worse, as usual," he said.