Shake up at Ferrari....

After Schumacher's announcement that he'll be retiring at the end of last season and that there'll be a shake up in the team....a few days ago, those new team roles were announced on the f1 website....Jean Todt, who has taken up the CEO, wil continue to attend races although not necessarily for the entire race weekend.....Stefano Domenicali will now be taking over Todt's role of overseeing the team over the race weekend....Ross Brawn's role as technical director has now been taken over by Mario Almondo...he would only be attending races if and only if his presence at the track is required, prefering to concentrate on his technical role at the factory...Brawn's trackside role will instead be handed over to Luca Baldisseri......MS on the other hand, will be giving regular technical input into the development program although not necessarily attending the test itself....the reason given is that he would be able to intepret the feelings of a driver.....

With the new roles within the team cleared up, how will the team perform?Would Raikonnen do as well as Schumacher since the 'force' behind his dominance has since moved on?Will Raikonnen be the dominant driver at Ferrari as Schuey was or would Raikonnen and Massa start on level footing?Could the changes help Ferrari regain both titles back from Renault? or will Alonso keep the driver's title for himself and help McLaren to an unlikely Constructor's Championship? I doubt that either McLaren or Alonso will get either title based in their performance last season...As for Renault, they may have a shot at retaining the Constructor's title but the fight will definitely go down to the wire....I feel that Ferrari and Raikonnen could get the Driver's title considering how strong Ferrari were last season.....I can't wait for the new season to start and see how Raikonnen, Alonso and Fisichella performs for their respective teams considering that the three of them are unofficially their team's no1 driver and 2 of them are in new teams......

On another note, summer school is going fairly well......workload is as expected of summer school subjects....would be having two test next week - one is a mid-sem test while the other is the 2nd test out of 3......the mid-sem test is for stats 301 while the 2nd test for phil 101 will be worth 30%....considering that phil 101 marks will depend wholly on how well or badly we do in our 3 tests, i would have to do well in my 2nd test to mantain my chance of getting at least an A for the paper......the stats test will be worth 20% with assignments covering the same amount and remaining coming from the final exam.....

i guess that's all for now.....will hopefully put up a post towards the end of next week....