Your are Barrichello.

BBKing · 30 Apr 2002, 15:18 (Ref:274454)

Would you stay for another year?

1. Based on talent (his is not that of a 1st class driver) he should stay. Make money, retire and tell his grand children "I was Schumacher's slave" ...LOL

2. Toyota is said to have offered him 3 years contract. Not a bad option I would say but Barrichello is blind by the love to the evil empire.

3. Back to Jaguar. No way while Lauda is around. Eddie and the Rat have a deal. Make as much money until Ford pulls the plug.

Nicholas · 30 Apr 2002, 15:23 (Ref:274458)

No, maybe I'd just give up the whole thing and become a taxi driver.

Or maybe I'd just pick option 1.
Since I wouldn't want to risk option 2 as it is only a rumour

No, actually I think I'd choose option three. By far and away the best option on the list.

classic · 30 Apr 2002, 16:14 (Ref:274489)

I would go with Toyota. For one, they don't have too much money worries and are in F1 with the serious intention of dominating the sport.
Also the cars have a little bit of red in them in case i get homesick!

Glen · 30 Apr 2002, 16:45 (Ref:274512)

I am Rubens

F1 is my career. In F1 the team and the car make more difference than anything else. I drive for the best team in the best car. Unfortunately I drive (when the car starts!) alongside a guy that's annoyingly, consistently better than me. I hope he breaks a leg playing football.

EERO · 30 Apr 2002, 17:09 (Ref:274527)

I'd take the TOYOTA offer. Rubens was-IS-a fine driver whose soul is being crushed at Ferrari. Its time for everyone's good that he move on. If he wants to have any pride left, he can be a real factor in building up TOYOTA.

Jaguar woulsd be a huge mistake as Lauda has no compassion and Irvine enjoys getting Rubens' goat.

Inigo Montoya · 30 Apr 2002, 17:14 (Ref:274530)

I stay with Ferrari, waiting patiently for TGF to win his 6th WDC and retire. Then I hope that someone better than me does not get hired to repace TGF.

TickTag2 · 30 Apr 2002, 18:29 (Ref:274611)

just stay at ferrari rubens

u already win the Test Driver Championship

especially for MSchumi

racing_guru · 30 Apr 2002, 18:40 (Ref:274624)

Stay with Ferrari, even if your only in a position to win one race a year, that's more then he will get any where else as he's not on Williams nor McLaren's shopping list.

**Bononi** · 30 Apr 2002, 19:29 (Ref:274699)

GO TO JAGUAR, CRY-BABY !!!!!!!!

Make money there, have fun driving and retire in style...

Remember you're not Diniz.

BTW Pedro Paulo Diniz, this guy I admire, had fun driving F1, spent dad's money, got a lot of girls. Now manages Formula Renault down here and appears in Renault's adds with lovely girls (and always loses in the video game)

Speedworx · 30 Apr 2002, 19:30 (Ref:274702)

Stay at Ferrari. MS will retire once he has won his 5th title (I hope)

f1manoz · 1 May 2002, 00:07 (Ref:274963)

He'll stay at Ferrari if he can. He won't leave. Why would you go to Jaguar or Toyota?

Wrex · 1 May 2002, 00:20 (Ref:274971)

Why would he go anywhere. He's already driving for a team that exceeds his talent, and it's still the only chance (albeit not likely) of a race win.

Take the money and enjoy the Sunday drives.

BBKing · 1 May 2002, 00:38 (Ref:274980)

What sunday drives? ....LOL

Wrex · 1 May 2002, 00:45 (Ref:274984)

OK correction. Take the money and enjoy the best Formula 1 seats money can buy

Valve Bounce · 1 May 2002, 02:52 (Ref:275022)

If I were Rubens, I'd try to find out the next April fool trick Ferrari will pull on me. First there was not enough fuel, then they swapped the launch control with the "no drive" control. Next will probably see the "look ma, no brakes" button.

These on-board computers are so good at pulling tricks on the driver.

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Raoul Duke · 1 May 2002, 03:09 (Ref:275032)

If I were Rubens.......I'd go to Cart!.

At least he'd have a decent chance of winning races over there.

Liz · 1 May 2002, 23:03 (Ref:275993)

If I were Rubens I would have resigned the day after that race that they forced him to give away.

I would have resigned at the post-race press conference, and I would have said bluntly, "I am resigning from Ferrari here and now because my teammate and HIS team have humiliated me before the world and I don't want my children to grow up believing I am a spineless

who like any other

will do anything for money."

And I would have got up and walked out in the complete and absolute silence, leaving my teammate to explain what had just happened, walked back to Ferrari, packed my kit, told Jean Todt what he could do with my contract (and helped him figure out how to do it if he seemed confused), and caught the next plane home to Brazil.

Since I am a very sensible family man, I have plenty of money in good investments, and Nelson Piquet would be happy to hire me to help with the new series he is bankrolling. And I would spend the rest of my life as a happy man, watching the next poor

lick TGF's boots and writing the memoir to end all memoirs.

If I were Rubens, that is what I would do.

Osella · 1 May 2002, 23:13 (Ref:275998)

If, as may be lamentably the case, TGF is the greatest-driver-in-the-world-ever-but-just-not-a-very-fine-sportsman, the Rubens doesn't stack up too bad next to him. There may well be the element of humiliation, but he holds that drive on merit and merit alone.

Rafael · 2 May 2002, 00:00 (Ref:276012)

If I was Barrichello, I would stay at Ferrari. There`s no competitive place at F1, and going to a small team, to help it to develop... is the way to a dark retirement! He did (and suffered) this two times. I think all he wants is to win some races and get retired. He may go to Cart, or IRL, but I think this is not the way... maybe he goes there, to the Indy500. Despite he hasn't any experience running on oval tracks, he has enough experience about racing because of his years on F1 (;

Mania · 2 May 2002, 00:31 (Ref:276020)

Move out of Ferrari - let the deserving Massa into the seat - and be the number 1 driver at Jaguar.

That is a proven example of a success story.

Jukebox · 2 May 2002, 10:51 (Ref:276294)

I'm thinking that Ferrari are slowly putting him in the cold storage by making him frustrated with the machines given to him on raceday....i'm betting that he'll be experiencing more than 50% DNF for the rest of the season.

Leave Barrichello, as you are not the right jockey for the prancing horse no more!

Wrex · 2 May 2002, 11:20 (Ref:276319)

Quote:

Originally posted by Mania
Move out of Ferrari - let the deserving Massa into the seat - and be the number 1 driver at Jaguar.

That is a proven example of a success story.

Is there room for two 2nd best drivers in F1? And in the same team?

calais · 2 May 2002, 11:54 (Ref:276335)

Quote:

Originally posted by Liz
If I were Rubens I would have resigned the day after that race that they forced him to give away.

I would have resigned at the post-race press conference, and I would have said bluntly, "I am resigning from Ferrari here and now because my teammate and HIS team have humiliated me before the world and I don't want my children to grow up believing I am a spineless who like any other will do anything for money."

And I would have got up and walked out in the complete and absolute silence, leaving my teammate to explain what had just happened, walked back to Ferrari, packed my kit, told Jean Todt what he could do with my contract (and helped him figure out how to do it if he seemed confused), and caught the next plane home to Brazil.

Since I am a very sensible family man, I have plenty of money in good investments, and Nelson Piquet would be happy to hire me to help with the new series he is bankrolling. And I would spend the rest of my life as a happy man, watching the next poor lick TGF's boots and writing the memoir to end all memoirs.

If I were Rubens, that is what I would do.

that is the best piece of literature i have read in a long time

Liz · 2 May 2002, 12:56 (Ref:276400)

All the Brazilians I have had the pleasure of meeting are very honourable men. Can you see Senna or Piquet putting up with this for one minute? The mind reels.

Thanks for the compliment. Now if Rubens is reading this -- you know what to do.

**Bononi** · 2 May 2002, 13:13 (Ref:276411)

Rubens would do it only if the spirit of Senna appear to him, and tell him to do it...

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