Daniel Ricciardo to make F1 debut @ Silverstone

[osg]

Daniel Ricciardo to make F1 debut at Silverstone - Speedcafe

Good seat time for the Rosso seat next year, and the Red Bull #2 beyond that.....

[I am evil Homer]

Well lets see how good he is then, although all he can really do is beat his hugely average team mate

[CNR]

confirmed on ten news

[Mekola]

Put Ricciardo in one of the HRT cars is to give F1 mileage to him... Perhaps it would put pressure to Toro Rosso drivers in near future..

[Bagwan]

Alternate title for this thread might be "HRT rents seat to Red Bull" .

Given that that car is no where near being a good test-bed to assess anyone by , will there be any filterd down tips from Newey to bring them into the ballpark ?

Or , will Willis and his BAR buddies be enough to make it a serious outfit ?

[RS]

How does this work then? Are Red Bull really paying more to HRT to rent the car than the Tata income from Karthikeyan?

Looks like all change at HRT because Kolles is out too.

[Hawkmoon]

Looks like he will drive for them for the rest of the season with Narain coming back for the Indian GP.

That'll be Bernie's doing. He's been banging on about an Indian GP for ages and I'm sure the prospect of losing one of his main drawcards for the race (ie. an Indian driver) wouldn't have gone down well.

[Koz]

Maybe it's because he has the wonderful place in history of being the lowest finish in an F1 race

Do Tata get a refund?

[Koz]

Or, maybe Fettel will wrap up the title well ahead of India that Bernie will pull a great deal of strings for Karthikeyan to get a drive with RBR.

[VkmSpouge]

Seems like Narain Karthikeyan is the only one who loses out in all of this. Hispania get extra money by taking on Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull get to assess Ricciardo over race weekends against a known quantity in Vitantonio Liuzzi and Ricciardo gets to make a low pressure debut to his F1 career.