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    Paffet will never race a McLaren, unless one of the 2 incumbants gets hurt. He's a solid tester, and i think he'd be a half decent mid pack racer, but not McLaren driver quality. Di Resta and Hulk and even Sutil will be the pick of Merc backed drivers, for the Merc works team or maybe McLaren. I see Force India as a junior team to both at the moment
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    contrary to what I said earlier, a german friend of mine told me that Di Resta's name wasnt on Mercedes' 2011 DTM drivers list.....(I'm guessing on the german version of the mercedes website, because it just lists mercs' 2010 drivers in the english version)
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    Sad that Hulkenberg can only get a test role.
    We need a 13th team so he and Nick Heidfeld can be on the grid!
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    Quote Originally Posted by N. Jones
    Sad that Hulkenberg can only get a test role.
    We need a 13th team so he and Nick Heidfeld can be on the grid!
    I agree. I think Hulkenburg has great talent and would like to see him have a full time F1 drive.

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    Excellent. Di Resta deserves this chance, now we can see what he's made of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N. Jones
    Sad that Hulkenberg can only get a test role.
    We need a 13th team so he and Nick Heidfeld can be on the grid!
    Well, that's what you get for underachieving in your rookie season. I mean, The Hulk only got 1 pole position for Williams? They get pole position all the time! :
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    Nice line-up. The main thing I'm struggling to understand, is that why did Force India commit to Liuzzi for so long. When they hired him in 2008, they basically signed a 4-year-deal immediately (two as a tester, two as a racer). Did Mallya really believe in him so much that he thought he would be worth such a long-term bet? In any case, by now it has backfired.

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    I think Luizzi deserved a second shot and perhaps VM thought he'd develop further into a more consistent driver. But really he's done very little of note at FI...not that any of this has been confirmed yet!
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    There´s to little testing nowdays, that´s the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gloomyDAY
    Well, that's what you get for underachieving in your rookie season. I mean, The Hulk only got 1 pole position for Williams? They get pole position all the time! :


    Actually Sir Frank Loves his pay drivers and if one comes along, who cares about a guy they are paying with talent. They will take the pay driver every time.
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