According to former team champion Michael Schumacher, Ferrari has put together a potentially “explosive” driver lineup for 2014, referring to the appointment of Kimi Raikkonen alongside their current ‘number 1’ driver Fernando Alonso.

Schumacher, who was pushed into his first retirement at the end of 2006 when Ferrari signed Raikkonen, said that “For motor sport fans it will certainly be a blast, and make for a tough competition.”

“It will be exciting to watch,” Schumacher told Bild newspaper. “But Ferrari with Fernando and Kimi — it sounds like an explosive mixture,” he added.

Another former Ferrari driver, four time world champion Alain Prost, as voiced some concern over how Fernando Alonso will handle Raikkonen alongside him. “Now he will no longer be the undisputed number 1, at least not initially, and I’m not sure Stefano Domenicali has the ability of a Jean Todt or a Ross Brawn to handle a situation like this,” Prost told a French TV broadcaster.

“In Italy the press applies a lot of pressure, so I presume that sooner or later there will be trouble,” added Prost.

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