marcush. wrote:Hamsy is potentially a multiple world champion in F1 Mclaren know exactly what they have and won´t allow themselves to lose this jewel.
It´s still some way to go but Button is keeping him under pressure enough methinks.Has di Resta similar potential? I fail to see this .he has not impressed really comaring him to sutil or hulk .We certainly don´t know just how good these two are as there is only the comparison towards Fisi who had always the upper hand over sutil -no?
Force India points:
2012:
Paul Di Resta 28
Nico Hulkenberg 31
Car a bit of a dog, arround 7th fastest on the grid, but in the right conditions better than that.
2011:
Adrian Sutil 42
Paul Di Resta 27
Car is a decent car, 5th fastest on the grid, only early season the car didnt perform as expected.
2010:
Adrian Sutil 47
Vitantonio Liuzzi 21
Car a good one, but not good on high downforce tracks, very good in low downforce tracks.
2009:
Giancarlo Fisichella 8
Adrian Sutil 5
Vitantonio Liuzzi 0
Car very good in low downforce, but not great in high downforce at all.
Sutil got out performed by Fisi, but then setteled down to become a good able driver in 2010 and 2011. Di Resta was good last year, enough to worry Sutil. However this year Di Resta took that momentum into the start of this year, and owned Hulkenberg, however i think HUL was race rusty and is coming into his own now and has getting the better of DIR. HUL has gottn on with it whilst DIR has had management troubles and had his head swayed by a Ferrari link. DIR needs to get his head in order or HUL will start to own him.
Both of theese young guys are going to start to start to make in roads as Force India are notoriously late developers every season, it seems to be since 2009 that once the summer break is over they start to score more of their points than before the summer break. They will have their sights set on Sauber, who are only 21 points ahead of Force India. I am thinking that both Force India drivers will both be in new teams next year, one at Ferrari and one at Mercedes. I find it convienient that Sutil has been at Force Indias hospiality suite in the paddock for 6 or the last 8 GPs. I have a feeling that Sutil will be back at Force India in 2013 allongside a young pay driver like Valshecchi or Bianchi who has some F1 knolege and a decent €10m pay cheque for the seat.
As it is, the mid pack of the grid will have at least 3 seats avalable, if not 4 or 5.
Im looking at this for the 2013 grid:
01/02: Scuderia Ferrari = Alonso/(Massa/Di Resta/Hulkenberg)
03/04: Red Bull-Renault = Vettel/Webber
05/06: McLaren-Mercedes = Button/Hamilton
07/08: Lotus-Renault = Raikkonen/Grosjean
09/10: AMG-Mercedes = Rosberg/(Di Resta/Hulkenberg)
11/12: Sauber-Ferrari = Perez/(Pic/Massa)
14/15: Force India-Mercedes = Sutil/(Valshecchi/Bianchi/D'Ambrosio)
16/17: Williams-Renault = Maldanado/(Senna/Bottas)
18/19: Toro Rosso-Ferrari = (Riccardo/Vergne)/(Riccardo/Vergne/Razia)
20/21: Caterham-Renault = Kovalinenn/(Petrov/Van Der Garde)
22/23: Marussia-Cosworth = Glock/(Pic/Chilton/Bottas)
24/25: HRT-Cosworth = De La Rosa/(Clos/Nasir)
