Sutil in at Spyker

[carrera66]

Any news on who their test driver will be? I hear maybe Ernesto Viso?

[Dave B]

He's been quick on Fridays, and maybe Spyker saw what Kubica did at BMW. I'm surprised at this "long-term" business though - I suspect there are watertight performance clauses just in case.

[SuperAguri]

What about this 'shoot-out' between several candidates that Spyker was planning?

[gjalie]

Any news on who their test driver will be? I hear maybe Ernesto Viso?

Winkelhock has a good chance.

[Oli_M]

Sounds like a good signing. I'll be honest and say the only thing I have seen of him is in F1 practise. At a guess the "long term contract" would be 2 years .... like has been suggested, so if he proves quick a bigger team can buy him out of it.

So where does this put Tiago? Heading for GP2? Champ Car? Doubt he would want the Spyker 3rd driver seat (is that pretty much the only seat left now??)

[harsha]

some people had a pretty high opinion of Montiero not so long ago

[Ranger]

So that makes 7 Germans in F1 next year:

Rosberg
Schumacher
Heidfeld
Sutil

as well as:

Glock
Vettel
and probably Ammermueller

Where in God's name do they keep coming from???

[ioan]

So that makes 7 Germans in F1 next year:

...

Where in God's name do they keep coming from???

There are 80+ millions of them in Germany!

[janneppi]

There are 80+ millions of them in Germany!

To compete with us Finns for drivers per capita, they still need another 25. :

[ArrowsFA1]

This news is certainly tough on Montiero. His performances were certainly no worse than Albers, and were arguably better