From F1-Live.com
As mentioned last week, apparantly the champion duo test is not going to happen according to reports in Italy.
The programme for Michael Schumacher’s Jerez test has been modified so that the retired champion does not go head-to-head with his successor Kimi Raikkonen.
Although Ferrari’s head of track activities Luca Baldisserri revealed last week that Schumacher will be driving at Jerez on 4 December, it now emerges that the German will not exit the Spanish circuit’s pitlane until two days later.
Instead, the opening two days of the final test of 2007 will be reserved for Ferrari’s new world champion, with the other side of the Italian team’s garage to be occupied by test driver Marc Gene.
"Kimi will test on 4 and 5 December (and) Michael on 6 and 7 December," a Ferrari spokesman told the German newspaper Bild.
After more than a year on the sidelines, Schumacher set the pace when he tested for two days earlier this month in Barcelona.
‘The comparison (between Raikkonen and Schumacher) will not take place,’ the Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport mourned.
Bild, meanwhile, reasoned that separating the two famous drivers will ‘enable Ferrari to make its excuses if Schumi is faster than Kimi’.
I don’t see the fuss about these two testing together, to be honest. It’s just testing, not a drag contest or a race. If Kimi is faster than Schumi it’ll be because Schumi has lost out a year’s experience, but if Michael is faster then it won’t look so good for Ferrari that their current driver is slower. It’s just another excuse for the hardcore Schumi fans to brag about him despite being retired. It’s better that as long as the whole team are working hard together, it doesn’t matter who tests when. What I do find suprising though is that Ferrari will apparantly make excuses to why Schumi will be faster – what if Kimi is miles faster? I’m sure they would disguise it anyway.
FUCK ISRAEL 