<p><font size=\"4\">Don\'t write Ralf Schumacher off - Heidfeld</font></p><p><a href=\"http://www.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/070607213257.shtml\">http://www.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/070607213257.shtml</a></p><p>It is not fair to write off former Grand Prix winner Ralf Schumacher because he is enduring a bad spell in 2007.<br/><br/>That was the insistence on Thursday of BMW-Sauber\'s Nick Heidfeld, who said it is too simple to dismiss his countryman\'s crisis at the wheel of the current Toyota as evidence that he is no longer a world-class driver.<br/><br/><font color=\"#000080\">\"I hope he is still around next year,\"</font> Heidfeld told reporters in Montreal. <font color=\"#000080\">\"It is obvious that he is having problems with his car, but he has won six Grand Prix and done a lot of other very good races.\"</font><br/><br/><font color=\"#000080\">\"To be honest I used to think that you are either a fast driver or a slow driver, but over the years I have learned that sometimes you can have some difficult moments. So I can understand that, yes.\"</font><br/><br/>Nevertheless, the speculation surrounding Schumacher\'s future at present refuses to go away; such as the apparent suggestion of an \'ultimatum\' that he either improve or be dumped following F1\'s North American double header. <br/><br/> redictably at Canada\'s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Thursday, Schumacher dismissed all the rumours as \'rubbish\'.<br/><br/>Clearer, however, is Heidfeld\'s future, even though he has yet to put pen to paper on a new BMW contract to extend his stay beyond the end of the season.<br/><br/><font color=\"#000080\">\"At the moment everything between us is running very smoothly,\"</font> he said in Montreal. <font color=\"#000080\">\"Both sides, BMW and I, have confirmed that we would gladly continue with one another, so I don\'t think that anything is going to get in the way of that.\"</font><br/><br/><sign></sign><b><i>E.A.<br/>Source GMM</i></b></p> |
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