Its interesting time in sports...(2)

Its quite interesting time in sports in general these days(contd):

Formula 1 is again carrying most of the excitement:
4) Schummi is within 12 points of Alonso and people are awaiting his retirement announcement.
Schumacher has made a fight out of a seemingly smooth sailing of Renault. Ferrari from being second best car has definitely become the best car on the tracks with many podium finishes for both the drivers.
They have also gained from erratic performance from McLaren and its drivers. As they prepare for Monza tomorrow, Ferrari bosses would be very happy: reason their current driver is 2nd on the grid and their future driver (supposedly) is on pole.
Everybody is speculating that this season would be Schummi's last. Let me come clear, I am not a fan of his. He is not the one who brings out a fan following for you. He is cold, calculative and competitive (well he is the one who had his season annuled for deliberately causing his nearest rival to crash ).
But this guy holds every record of reckoning in F1 and he wants to finish off in style. But I still see no reason for him to retire if he can compete like he is doing. Don't want another Borg out of him.
But Ferrari is not letting things hold them up and that brings me to the next piece...

5) Ferrari to announce its next year lineup (Kimi Raikonnen moves on to hunt for elusive Champions title).
Ferrari would be announcing their next year line up at the end of the Monza GP. As much as people await if Schummi can lessen the gap with Alonso, they are also interested to know, if Kimi moves to Ferrari next year.
Kimi tried to kill speculation by claiming that he is yet to decide and for him its importatant what committment the team will offer.
Lets face it, McLaren have failed to do justice to a driver of his caliber. Last 2-3 season they have turned up cars that have been unreliable or not quite good enough. And apparently Kimi doesn't want to be the best driver who never won a title.
Its almost sure that he joins Ferrrari as Renault has announce another finn to be their 2nd driver.
Though Kimi can still remain with McLaren but with Alonso coming to McLaren, that seems unrealistic. Its like having Senna and Prost in the same team. It happened before and it was ugly.

6) Renault has a fin(n) added to it
Continuing with F1, Renault announced its line up and added Heikki Kovalainen to its fold. Lets see if he is as exciting like my last 2 favorites Mika and Kimi.