So Mercedes won't pay for Button, but will pay for Kimi? Odd choice..
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So Mercedes won't pay for Button, but will pay for Kimi? Odd choice..
Nick Fry did suggest that Bunsen's departure was not about money. Maybe both Kimi and Bunsen thought that McLaren was the best chance next year for wins and podiums.Quote:
Originally Posted by christophulus
Yes, but Kimi's price has just crashed. If he wants to be in F1, in a competitive team, he'll have to resign himself to taking whatever he's offered. Mercedes-Brawnz could pick up the bargain of the year! I'm sure the payoff from Ferrari will be adequate consolation.Quote:
Originally Posted by christophulus
I don't know, Kimi is a far better driver than Button, according to statistics at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by christophulus
Just goes to prove what we've always known about Kimi. He just wants to race, and he doesn't care about the BS.Quote:
Originally Posted by fousto
His management team were pushing for big bucks and it failed, and now kimi wants any ride he can get.
This silly season is like a soap opera already. "I want to race, don't want to race, want to race, ..." Bah.
Any ride he can get? That's CLEARLY not the case. He will only CONSIDER Brawn at this point--you know, the current WCC. I haven't read about him dialing up Vijay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonic
Kimi's crawdaddy-ing out of his prior position only proves what we REALLY know about Kimi. He only wants to drive a front-running car, AND he wants to be paid well to do it. He doesn't "just want to race"--that's patently obvious. :rolleyes:
No. Kimi just wants to race - of course with the very best machinery, he's a WDC after all! Its his agents job to get him into the best seat available; That was clearly McLare. Now that door has closed he's looking at the next best. Clearly this will not go on all the way down the grid to FI, to use your example, but if he gets no joy in F1 he'll go to another series because (big finish here!) he wants to race! .Quote:
Originally Posted by keysersoze
I get the point Sonic, but I'm with keysersoze on this one. Kimi or his agent is ridiculously greedy. As I said yesterday, Kimi wanted a top seat = McLaren. McLaren offered him the seat and upwards of 5m a year (fortune to anyone else). He says no as the contract isnt good enough.
To me that sounds like a greedy moneybags who doesnt deserve to be in the sport. Good riddance - glad to get rid of one of the most dull racers and people in F1.
And you say he wants to race as if thats an unusually good skill. All F1 drivers want to race, and all of them more than Kimi in my opinion. I want to race, my hamster wants to race etc. Kimi doesnt want to race otherwise he'd go to Renault, Sauber, FI or one of the new teams.
Timo Glock - now there's a man who wants to race and has done it the right way.
Ferrari is paying Kimi, a salary similar to Hamilton's, to go Rally racing, which seems obvious, what Kimi actually wants, after Ferrari nightmare season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Brockman
Wining races in a 2009 Ferrari proves that Kimi can race anything, even a Rally racecar -- a more suitable place to prove Kimi wizardry.