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5th December 2006, 13:05 #1
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Hamilton to Spyker....
Apparently Spyker were planning to offer Hamilton $10 million a year if McLaren didn't offer him a race seat. Did this force McLaren's hand or is it just a rumour?
Extremely impressed with the first 43 laps of Bourdais' race
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5th December 2006, 13:10 #2
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first i'd heard of that but it does sound plausable.
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5th December 2006, 13:17 #3
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The story I'd heard was that he's contracted to McLaren, but that Mercedes were willing to fund an engine supply to a "B-team" to give him experience.
There are many reasons, of course, why that didn't happen in the end.Useful F1 Twitter thingy: http://goo.gl/6PO1u
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5th December 2006, 17:19 #4
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Highly unlikely in my book. For one thing LH was offered his macca contract way back in september, spyker barely existed then.
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6th December 2006, 08:16 #5
Sounds plausible, but Hamilton wouldn't have done it. He already had a guaranteed spot for McLaren in 2008, and with his racinge experience, why race for Spyker when he could be honing his skills via testing the car for a year?
It'd be a very ambitious offer from Spyker that wouldn't have worked.
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6th December 2006, 15:52 #6
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Rumour of course, Spyker have said that they are looking for a pay driver to take the second seat so paying Hamilton $10 mil was never going to happen.
Its also the reason that Monteiro is most likely to get the seat thanks to his $$$, I'd rather see Sutil in that seat after his friday paractice performances this year.
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7th December 2006, 16:31 #7
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Originally Posted by Sleeper
Extremely impressed with the first 43 laps of Bourdais' race
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7th December 2006, 22:02 #8
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