Adrian Sutil has secured a deal with Sauber to ensure himself a race seat for 2014. He will effectively make the inverse move of Nico Hulkenberg who joined Force India following his departure at Sauber.
Nope, it's possible. People from Total say it's not impossible to see both Total and PDVSA on the same car, for many reasons...pob wrote:Yeah, Crofty's rumours don't make much sense. Maldonado's PDVSA backing conflicts with Grosjean's Total sponsorship (both oil companies), so I don't see them being in the same team.
Q: What's the state of play with your drivers for next year? What are the important criteria for you and when do you hope to have that concluded?
Cyril ABITEBOU: We would like to have that done fairly quickly, I would say. In particular sooner than last year - because we were late in confirming our line-up -because there is an awful lot of work to be done between the teams and the drivers. A lot of teams are changing, including for the drivers, and the sooner we can integrate and work together, the better it will be for next year. Having said that, in terms of what we want, there is a lot of options. Consistency is a good thing, so one of the options is that we continue with the two drivers that we have, building on the relationship that we have started. But everything is changing anyway, so I think one thing we want is someone who is reliable in his feedback because we will have to develop the car during the season. We didn't develop much the car this season. Next season will be a totally different ball game - in particular the start of the season when everything will be new. We will have to adapt ourselves, the drivers will have to adapt themselves, so experience might be something that is interesting but more than anything I think someone who's capable of being almost transparent and providing the most accurate feedback as possible to the engineers who're trying to understand how the car is working, is something that will be important for us.
An unnamed source from Williams one would assume?Aesto wrote:Interesting article in Auto Motor und Sport: http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/form ... 88319.html
The important pointers:
- The deal with Quantum is 270 million dollars over five years for a 35% share in the team
- Quantum wants Hülkenberg
- Gerard Lopez doesn't mention any of the compliance problems from the Saward article, but basically just tells Quantum to put their money where their mouth is and finally pay up
- Quantum has until mid-November to do so
- Source from within Williams: "When does Pastor finally understand that people are after his money, not himself?" xD
Ack. That last line just makes my brain hurt. Talent and speed are exactly what should attract $$$."I spoke to Hulkenberg's manager this morning and he is terrified that Hulkenberg will end up with nowhere to drive next year which is utterly, utterly ridiculous. Unfortunately, the midfield need money and he doesn't bring money, just talent and speed."
And all that on the background that in Germany it is generally difficult to get big Sponsorship for Motorsports.richard_leeds wrote:I wonder why Hulkenberg doesn't attract sponsorship. I guess part of the problem will be competing against Rosberg and Vettel who'll grab most of the German sponsors?
He doesn't have the titles of Vettel, and doesn't look like Rosberg.richard_leeds wrote:I wonder why Hulkenberg doesn't attract sponsorship. I guess part of the problem will be competing against Rosberg and Vettel who'll grab most of the German sponsors?
