Analysis: Schumacher has No Rivals

Michael Schumacher's seventh World Championship looks in the bag after the Ferrari driver's fifth win in a row at the Spanish Grand Prix.

While all bets are off in the Formula One title race after Schumacher's record-equalling start to the season, the question now is who will end the German's winning streak and when.

It may not be for a while but BAR boss David Richards thinks it could be Jenson Button in two weeks' time. The Briton and BAR have yet to win a race but Richards believes his man can break the blank in Monte Carlo.

"Beating Michael to the title I think is going to be a big challenge for anyone," he said. "Michael is pretty invincible, pretty awesome. The really interesting question now is who is going to be the first driver to break Michael's record. I think it'll be Jenson Button.

"The next race is always the one we're looking for him to win. I think there is a very good chance for him. He feels very positive about it."

Richards may not want to bet on it, having punted on Button to win the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, but he said the drinks would be on him when it happened.

Schumacher, as a five times Monaco winner, has to be favourite and even if he falters Ferrari boss Jean Todt expects Brazilian teammate Rubens Barrichello to pick up the slack.

"If Michael has to be beaten, I hope it will be by Rubens," he said.

Big Shunt

However, Button would not be a bad bet to win in his hometown after three podiums this season including second place at Imola from pole position. The Briton was very quick in Monaco last year before a heavy crash in practice ruled him out of the race.

Button arrived in Barcelona as a possible winner, his chances undone by a mistake that left him 14th on the grid. Yet he still finished in the points for the fifth race in a row.

"Two weeks, and we're back in the frame again," said Richards.

Renault will be the other team that Ferrari must watch, with Italian Jarno Trulli third and Spaniard Fernando Alonso fourth on Sunday.

"We are looking forward to Monte Carlo because we have seen, we hope, that we can be good there," said Trulli. "I like the circuit and I have always done very well. I am still looking for the first victory, the first pole position and it might happen there."

Williams and McLaren, the two teams that have won Monaco most recently with Juan Pablo Montoya last year and David Coulthard in 2002, could offer little hope of repeating the feat after Sunday's race.

"If you look at the pace they (Ferrari) have got, they should be on the front row in Monaco as well," said Williams' chief operations engineer Sam Michael.

"It's not a matter of no hope. You keep turning up and try to make the car better but you've got to be realistic," he added.

"They're strong so I'm not going to sit here and say we're going to beat Ferrari in Monaco because there's nothing that tells me we will at the moment."

McLaren, far from the Ferrari-chasing days of 2003, must look nervously over their shoulders at Ferrari look-alikes Sauber instead.

The team have not won a race since March last year and both Coulthard and Finland's Kimi Raikkonen, last year's Championship runner-up to Schumacher, were overtaken by Sauber's Brazilian Felipe Massa in Barcelona.