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Badoer and Gene had plenty of experience in F1cars by the time that they got the reserve gigs.
Gutierrez doesn't have an ful lot of that yet so Slim's clout aside it is a very strange hire. |
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17 Dec 2014, 23:47 (Ref:3485914) | #754 | ||
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It's a worrying testimony at how Ferrari is struggling to raise cash. I presume alot of that Mexican money is going to pay Vettel's wages.
Ferrari is in a state of some chaos at the minute at various levels. |
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17 Dec 2014, 23:58 (Ref:3485916) | #755 | ||
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But there is probably more to it. Ferrari is to float 10% of Ferrari, probably on the US market... They need money to support the F1 team so it is less of a strain on the books. Vettel is expensive so they needed Gutierrez to pay nearly a third of his salary. There is a team deal with Haas coming up in 2016 and he is looking for a North American driver. This may be a prelude to that coming off. There is a race in Mexico next year and it might sell cars/ give the company a boost in that region. If nothing else then it will pay the salaries of 250 of our 700 race team staff..... (Assuming the rumoured $25 million is correct and the average staff salary is $100000pa) |
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Of the drivers who have raced in the current cars and are available for a testing role, there's not many better choices. Vergne, if he can't race in F1, will want to race somewhere and a Ferrari role greatly reduces his possibilities in other race series. Kobayashi left Ferrari on bad terms. Sutil has his personality issues. Chilton doesn't have anywhere near the same track record as Esteban. Only the future will determine the quality of the hire, but on the face of it, it's not a bad one. Ferrari will know something about the car feedback that Esteban provides and will probably know his character fairly well from his time at Sauber. Ferrari isn't so dependent on sponsors that a sponsor would have enough influence to force them to hire someone that will be useless to them, so I assume Ferrari think Esteban will at least be competent in his new role. |
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18 Dec 2014, 22:09 (Ref:3486235) | #758 | ||
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Rather than the current maelstrom of hiring and firing,they could use some of their abundant cash to buy Force India with a view to running it as a Toro Rosso kind of outpost and then they might learn how to achieve decent results with a lot less wherewithal. |
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Ferrari now also signed Vergne as testdriver .
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With the ban on testing what is the point of having one test driver, never mind two?
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I get the mutual attraction for Ferrari/Gutierrez, but that's a waste of a role for Vergne, who should be racing next season. IMO.
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He probably got offered a small fortune by the standards he has been paid in the past and because of the love relationship with 'Effone' decided a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. Pity, because I agree with you, he should be racing not sitting in a simulator... But if he is doing that job I wonder how much effectual work Gutierrez will get.... |
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Be interesting to see how he compares with Seb n Kimi in the simulator....
That might give him half a chance for 2016.... |
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21 Dec 2014, 13:05 (Ref:3486880) | #770 | |
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Vergne for Ferrari 2016 seat, replacing Kimi, after a stellar Indycar season...
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Adrian Sutil has become Williams reserve driver for 2015. He should be able to do a competent job if required. A change from their usual policy of a young upcoming driver.
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One left a nasty smell around the paddock and I doubt would be welcomed back any time soon, whilst the other dealt with matters in private and becomes the reserve driver. OK, it's not a race seat, but as things panned out in Melbourne, he may well have had a race there if he had been appointed sooner. Megaphone diplomacy does not work (IMHO). |
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i agree mike (urgh, does this mean it's the end of the world? )
they're doing it right. they have two really quick young guys working behind the scenes in alex lynn and richie stanaway, susie doing work both in the sim and in the public eye, and then sutil to parachute in if something goes wrong. ultimately would lynn or stanaway (or wolff) benefit from being dropped in at the deep end because one of the race drivers became indisposed during a weekend? no. best have an experienced guy ready to jump in and do a solid job. sutil seems like a smart but emotion-lead chap, so it's interesting that he clearly came to the right decision about why sauber had to bin off his contract and walked away from it. |
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