IMO there will be races in which Felipe will win and others, in which Fred will win. But when Fred is beaten, he will be always second or third. When Felipe loses, I am not so sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
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IMO there will be races in which Felipe will win and others, in which Fred will win. But when Fred is beaten, he will be always second or third. When Felipe loses, I am not so sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I personally think at least on forums Kimi vs Lewis at McLaren could become a more serious topic than FA/FM in Ferrari. LH and KR have the biggest fanbases in the world and this will create fireworks. :p :
Unfortunately for Hamilton - if he ends up on top, a lot of people will inevitably start accusing "Team Hamilton" in favouring their driver...
from whitmarsh's face on tv today it would seem Kimi is off the Mclaren.
Now when it looks more and more like that Kimi really is going to McLaren and Alonso to Ferrari then there will be "2 teams" at Ferrari - Alonso/Fisi and Felipe/Schumi. I think that was the reason why Fisi was offered the 3rd driver seat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dzeidzei
Now we also can see how important it is that drivers doesn’t speak b*** s*** of their team when they leave and move to another team. I’m sure that most of the people at McLaren remember the time with Kimi as something positive and can therefore start to work with him again without problems, if he goes there – which I think.. :)
i think Kimi's future was set this weekend with Ferrari twelling him about Alonso and he probably securing his deal with Mclaren, so the first two domino's ghave fallen. What remains to be seen is how much money he will be getting in his golden parachute. As I hear it from the rumor mill, Ferrari are trying to withold some of the amount via technicalities and could even see kimi "fired" before the end of the season.
Rosberg is the biggest loser in all of this and I think would be best served by staying at Williams, especially if they are able to secure Mercedes engines for next year ( which always seemed more likely to me than RBR getting them)
so if i think Williams next year is rosberg and Hulkenberg
I can see Nakajima joining Glock at Toyota (IMO he has done enough to retain an F1 seat)
Kubica and Grosjean in Renault
Heidfeld and Klien at Sauber
Brawn, Red bull stays the same
STR stays the same ( maybe Loeb gets a rideshare deal with Alg or he gets farmed out to a new team)
The Rosberg I saw this weekend had a monster lap during Q2 in a car that is CLEARLY inferior to the Brawns. How is that overrated? Sure, he made a mistake exiting the pits today but he'd been on a very steady points-scoring streakQuote:
Originally Posted by Saint Devote
First, nobody knows how the accident has affected Massa - and Ferrari are taking a risk that I doubt Enzo Ferrari would have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dzeidzei
I think Alonso will wreck Massa psychologically - he is a fragile - but if he even looks a threat he will be out the next season.
But I cannot imagine that this time Alonso has not signed a contract that does not have a "Michael Schumacher clause" in it and, Massa has agreed. Additonally, the chances of seeing Schumacher in a Ferrari are now totallty dead.
I also think that Kimi is gone not because Massa is being favored but because Alonso probably stipulated that like Schumacher HE will be consulted always on other drivers.
Alonso is on a march to try and lockdown this Ferrari team as did the great Schumacher. That is what this is all about in my judgement.
The only competition that Alonso has in his view is Schumacher's records - that is his goal. He already won a double championship with Briatore - beating Schumacher - now for the rest!
Problem is that if Hamilton and Kimi are in competitive Mclaren's then his task will be even harder than Schumacher EVER had it - but then Alonso is the Schumacher beater of 2006.
Enthralling battles in f1 lie ahead. Unlike the Schumacher Ferrari days this could well turn out to be similar to the classic days of the 80's and 90's. There were five drivers at a time that were competive rather than one and the cars cannot be "boutiqued" as they were for Schumacher.
And battles will not be engineered as they have been because there will be no fuel stops. I think we culd see race long duels as we saw between Hamilton and Vettel today. Excellent!
It seems more like the Robertsons where holding out to get better payout from Ferrari or Santander. The rumour is that Ferrari will have to pay Kimi's salary next year plus they will have to pay a bonus for every win he gets (as if he was driving for Ferrari). I think part of reason why the situation has been difficult, is because they cant just fire Kimi, according to the word around he has met his performance agreements set out in his contract. But who knows perhaps that is not what has been going on. But surely Ferrari cant really "fire" Kimi before the end of the season. Who will drive for them Fisi and Badoer?Quote:
Originally Posted by truefan72
http://www.viddler.com/explore/juniperberry/videos/60/Quote:
Originally Posted by seppefan
Williams were better in their setup preparations than Brawn GP in Singapore, so that lap means nothing. In the race Nico finished between both Brawn GP drivers - yes, because of one mistake, but you were quoting one lap. Still, it'll be interesting to see battle between Jenson and Nico...Quote:
Originally Posted by keysersoze