Formula 1 - 2018 Season

I'm sure perez (his management) isn't daft enough to have him act as the front man to put the team into admission without making sure that whatever the outcome, he'd have a contract.

 

If the team had folded, he would have found himself fighting with other creditors for whatever he could get out of the remaining equity.

Edit: and without a ride. Now if he wasn't getting paid that still might have been better.

 

To me it seems Perez acted with FI management blessing in this case. There are many valid reasons why you would want to put company through administration/bankruptcy prior to sale ...

 

Pat Fry is back at McLaren as engineering director.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/138499/fry-returns-to-mclaren-as-engineering-director

 

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/32...st-share-blame-for-sebastian-vettels-mistakes

I found this piece by Mark Hughes interesting. tldr; Vettel doesn't really trust Ferrari race operations (edit) and that is why the mistakes are cropping up.

 

Vettel is signed through 2020.

I'm not a big Vettel fan, but he routinely outperforms Raikkonen. I don't see how that would make any sense. Unless you think Leclerc is a better driver than Vettel

 

I am also not a huge Vettel fan, but we have to be real. As AlphaWolf says, there is a contract (although that doesn't mean anything if Vettel doesn't want to stay but there are no indications of that imho), so if Leclerc is coming in, Kimi is out. Anything else would be a huge shock and effective retirement for Vettel. Or is he going to go to Toro Rosso? Force India? Sauber? Haas? Williams?

Ferrari just needs to sort out their race operations.

It's called the silly season, but Vettel out at Ferrari? Come on, that is Silly.

 

I admit I didn't read the article and I agree somewhat, Kimi is cool as ice. But Vettel leaving Ferrari is about as likely as Kubica driving for Williams. Why would they choose Kubica when they can have Ocon and George Russel?

 

Who can forget what happened in Singapore last year? I can't wait to see if it will happen again.

My bold. Yeah. I know and I don't believe it. Polish fans are enraged that we don't believe.

 

Not all of them

BTW funny thing is, even Kubica himself doesn't want to drive in place of Stroll, it might clash with some plans for future.

So now we have confirmed that Ocon doesn't want straight swap and Williams reserve driver rather not do it too! I bet team will find some young and rich kid to sell him seat till end of this season.

 

To be perfectly honest, it would be a proper fairytale if Kubica got a drive in F1 again, but I don't see it how the driver market is now. Ocon is too important for Mercedes, they have to find a seat for him.

 

Yeah, Ocon showed that he deserves place in F1. That's why Mercedes is willing to even let him off their young driver program to give him a chance in compiting team for a seat.

There are still places at Toro Rosso, Alfa amd Williams, only thing is, only one place uses Mercedes engines and they are looking for a lot of money for it to patch the hole left by loosing Stroll.

 

Ferrari, Leclerc, Raikkonen, Verstappen, Mercedes

 

Or he's contractually obligated to not say anything that will reveal he won't be driving for them next season.

 

Oh, look, Kimi Raikkonen to step down at the end of 2018

And he's Racing for Sauber

So yup, you're right Kaotik, definitely staying at Ferrari for another year.