expat wrote on Nov 14^th, 2007 at 10:11am:

But to be fair thats always happend.
Look at the Redbull/ STR cars. They are traditional Newey cars, which just happen to look like the Mclarens. It would not surprise me if next years honda turns up on the grid with the big drooping nose cone and sculpted bodywork of the 06 Ferrari.
The key thing is that he doesn't bring cd's, floppy disks and drawings along with him that are owned by Ferrari.

No Idea what this has to do with the thread, but its rather funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyfSAXhl4yY

day 2 testing results

1.  M.Schumacher   Ferrari              (B)   1:21.486   90
2.  de la Rosa     McLaren-Mercedes     (B)   1:21.857   60
3.  Kovalainen     Renault              (B)   1:21.894   65
4.  Massa          Ferrari              (B)   1:22.044   56
5.  Paffett        McLaren-Mercedes     (B)   1:22.293   57
6.  Rosberg        Williams-Toyota      (B)   1:22.333   64
7.  Coulthard      Red Bull-Renault     (B)   1:22.555   74
8.  Heidfeld       BMW-Sauber           (B)   1:22.946  102
9.  Nakajima       Williams-Toyota      (B)   1:23.031   77
10.  Vettel         Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)   1:23.187   74
11.  Chandhok       Red Bull-Renault     (B)   1:23.255   57
12.  Button         Honda                (B)   1:23.358   79
13.  Trulli         Toyota               (B)   1:23.465   54
14.  Kubica         BMW-Sauber           (B)   1:23.488   37
15.  Davidson       Super Aguri-Honda    (B)   1:23.547   80
16.  Filippi        Honda                (B)   1:23.596   74
17.  Bourdais       Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)   1:23.753   72
18.  Montagny       Toyota               (B)   1:23.977   45
19.  Klien          Force India-Ferrari  (B)   1:24.446   56
20.  Sutil          Force India-Ferrari  (B)   1:24.537  105
21.  Liuzzi         Force India-Ferrari  (B)   1:24.555   55


A thought, Alonso has been very reluctant to take the Renault seat, he only wants a 1 year deal, Renault want a 2 year commitment. Michael today said when asked if he would be receiving offers after the results, that he didn't think so, and even if he did, that there were no free seats right now. How long till Flavio gives up on Fernando and goes and re-offers Michael the seat like he did last year. I think thats the only team other than Ferrari who Schumi would drive for, and its the only team aside from Ferrari who could afford him.
I have a feeling Fernando is either not racing in 08 or going to Toyota.
Dissapointed in Paffets time. I think Mclaren was expecting a lot more from him in the hopes that he would show enough to take the seat alongside Hamilton next season. Bourdais has to pick it up aswell. I know he's knew to the car aside from a few tests, but he cant afford to be beaten throughout the winter by Vettel.

And his main sponsor who got him into F1 was Mercedes, headed by one norbert haug. Naaah it'll never happen

I believe so. And if I remember correctly at the time, Frentzen was considered the one with the most to give at the time as he was the fastest of the group. Wendlinger was seen as the one who was most likely to win the title in the future, and Schumi was the money basically. Then they all stepped into an F1 car and it sort of changed. Theres a full 6 pages on how Merc saw there up and coming drivers in the schumi book I was reading.