F1 News: Pity poor Ralfie
It is well known that the only true yardstick in F1 is your team-mate. Which means partnering the guy who beat the reigning world champion in his first season would not be high on an F1 driver’s list of priorities.
In which case, despite McLaren being one of the two top teams in F1 and in theory in the enviable position of being able to choose any driver they want as partner to Lewis Hamilton, their options are actually quite limited.
We can probably rule out another complete rookie, so instead McLaren are likely to either go for a young driver eager to take a step up to a top team, such as Adrian Sutil, or an aging driver eager to just stay in F1, such as Pedro de la Rosa… or Ralf Schumacher.
To plum for another young driver would almost certainly give McLaren their youngest partnership ever and probably the most inexperienced pairing ever in a front-line team. There is little substitute for experience in F1 and Ralf Schumacher would have had that on his mind when he approached Ron Dennis about a possible drive next year.
Unfortunately for Ralf, Ron declined his offer.
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