Sahara Force India confirms Paul Di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg for 2012

**wedge** · 20th December 2011, 12:35

Originally Posted by ioan

What? No poor Sutil posts?!
Judging by the uproar against RedBull in the Buemi & Alguersuari thread, I was expecting to see some support for Sutil, who proved to be a worthy F1 driver unlike the two aforementioned ones.

Because Sutil wasn't in a hefty development program and has been in F1 for longer.

**Robinho** · 21st December 2011, 12:57

Sutil to Williams, Petrov to Caterham, Alguesari to HRT, bye to Trulli, Barrichello and Liuzzi, you saw it here first (or rather this is the first time you have seen the collective rumours all stated in one place by me!)

**IceWizard** · 21st December 2011, 19:44

Glad that Hulkenburg got the drive as I think he will be a better driver that Sutil. Having said that I feel that Sutil is more worthy of F1 than some others who have drives for next season. Would like him to pick up a drive somewhere but there aren't too many options left.

**call_me_andrew** · 23rd December 2011, 06:43

Well deserved for Hulkenberg.

**Garry Walker** · 3rd January 2012, 09:02

Stupid decision. The Slasher and Di Resta would have been the correct pairing.

Originally Posted by N. Jones

Nice!

I am hoping Hulkenberg can show some of that promise from 2009.

And get clearly beaten by his teammate again? I hope so too.

Originally Posted by F1boat

IMO a good choice. Paul and Nico are very promising drivers, Sutil IMO is at best a potential Fisichella.

Paul - yes. Nico - no.

Originally Posted by IceWizard

Glad that Hulkenburg got the drive as I think he will be a better driver that Sutil. Having said that I feel that Sutil is more worthy of F1 than some others who have drives for next season. Would like him to pick up a drive somewhere but there aren't too many options left.

Better than Sutil? Based on what? One lucky pole position? How quickly people forget that Barrichello destroyed him so bad throughout the year, whereas he was not able to do that to Maldonado.

**race_director** · 20th January 2012, 05:58

off topic but important one

according to media reports in INDIA . the owner of force india. vijay mallaya . is in a big financial mess. his airline business is in a debt trap. there were reports that he was planning to sell the f1 team . lets see if FORCE India survives this year

**wedge** · 20th January 2012, 14:40

Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Stupid decision. The Slasher and Di Resta would have been the correct pairing.

And get clearly beaten by his teammate again? I hope so too.

Paul - yes. Nico - no.

Better than Sutil? Based on what? One lucky pole position? How quickly people forget that Barrichello destroyed him so bad throughout the year, whereas he was not able to do that to Maldonado.

Button was soundly by his team mates when he entered F1 and look how his career turned out.