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Old 22 Feb 2013, 00:22 (Ref:3208872)   #1
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Okay if you are on the board of directors at Force India who do you choose..

Go ahead, and explain why please...
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Old 22 Feb 2013, 00:26 (Ref:3208873)   #2
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Way more experience, and a better driver...
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Old 22 Feb 2013, 00:57 (Ref:3208881)   #3
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Sutil , purely for the experience but I am sure I read that there may be worries about travel because of his conviction .
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Old 22 Feb 2013, 01:28 (Ref:3208891)   #4
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I don't believe that to be an issue otherwise the team would not be testing him..
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Old 22 Feb 2013, 02:14 (Ref:3208901)   #5
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Sutil for experience. Bianchi for the short term, and some cash and/or Ferrari engines next season. Karthikeyan just for cash.

hmmmm.........

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Old 22 Feb 2013, 07:08 (Ref:3208950)   #6
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Bianchi. One of the strongest junior category CVs of drivers not in F1, discounted Ferrari engines for next year and someone who isn't cancer for sponsorship.
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Old 22 Feb 2013, 10:24 (Ref:3209010)   #7
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jules, he's damn quick, he delivers, his blonde moments are relatively infrequent, and he's a good racer too. his racing brain is pretty much second to none.
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Old 22 Feb 2013, 10:56 (Ref:3209020)   #8
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Jules - he's shown in the junior categories that he has the racecraft and the drive. I think the new blood deserves the chance here, given that FI have di Resta with a couple of year's experience - if their other driver was a rookie, I might choose the other way.
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jules, he's damn quick, he delivers, his blonde moments are relatively infrequent, and he's a good racer too. his racing brain is pretty much second to none.
I don't disagree with that at all!

But the question is "If you were on the board..." and I think 2014 and engines/drivetrain must be a factor in all this?

That might be be red herring though....
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looking at it if i was on the board? well, i'd be privy to a lot more information than i am now - for example, the commercial offers from both ferrari and mercedes, the amount of work that changing the engine supplier (and technology provider, whatever that means) entails, exactly how big a factor money is in all this and exactly how critical wallet girth is in all this.

without all that knowledge i can only assume it's purely down to driver factors. it's not as if we know who has the best commercial offering on the table
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Old 22 Feb 2013, 11:47 (Ref:3209047)   #11
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Neither of those. I'd go for Kamui Kobayashi because he's pretty quick and coming on quite well.
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Old 22 Feb 2013, 14:51 (Ref:3209102)   #12
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Not Sutil - too much Groundhog Day going on....

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Sutil. People forget he had a blinder of a season in 2011. He pushed that car real, real hard!

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Sutil. People forget he had a blinder of a season in 2011. He pushed that car real, real hard!

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would i have the guts to make the hard call? Sutil is good but a known quantity. if he does well would anyone notice?
its a risk but with the rookie you have a chance to confound expectations and if it works then thats a lot of positive attention for the team which could use it.

if he comes with a cheap engine deal then the risk becomes more manageable.
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Bianchi. Out with the old and in with the new. Sutil has too much baggage and Bianchi has a fresh impetus which could lead to additional support for the team from 2014
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Neither of those. I'd go for Kamui Kobayashi because he's pretty quick and coming on quite well.

Okay but one of these drivers is going to get the drive so...
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I am going to throw a spanner in the works because this wont happen. BUT I would have taken Adrian and Jules and let Paul go...
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I am going to throw a spanner in the works because this wont happen. BUT I would have taken Adrian and Jules and let Paul go...
The only way that would have happened is if they had moved to Ferrari engines this season.
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Okay but one of these drivers is going to get the drive so...
Bianchi because Sutil doesn't look like he could be great (the known quantity thing). That said, should we be discarding competent drivers because of this?

I know little of Bianchi, so I'm not well-placed to comment, but from what I've read here he's taking a while to get good form, so he seems to be in a fortunate place with Force India (I'm mainly thinking of how I've interpreted bella's comments previously).
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I am going to throw a spanner in the works because this wont happen. BUT I would have taken Adrian and Jules and let Paul go...
Well said Sir ! I voted Sutil but i thought the same thing . Did not want to post it for fear of being shot down and laughed at !!
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Well said Sir ! I voted Sutil but i thought the same thing . Did not want to post it for fear of being shot down and laughed at !!
You should never fear posting what you feel, as long as it is polite...
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I choose Sutil for fear of being beat up by him if I chose someone else.
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I choose Sutil for fear of being beat up by him if I chose someone else.
What..
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Sutil's a good driver... and has lots of experience. The only reason Bianchi is an option is because Sutil's got a lot of emotional "baggage".
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