Scuderia Toro Rosso has announced that Carlos Sainz will join the team with immediate effect. It means that our driver line-up for the 2015 season is now established as Max Verstappen and Carlo Sainz.
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Sevach wrote:
I heard Alonso and Ferrari are playing a game of chicken, if Alonso can invoke the performance clause and walk anytime he wants but if he does so Ferrari doesn't have to pay him anything.
If Ferrari terminates the contract instead they'll have to pay him much like they did Raikkonen back in 2010.
the doesn't make sense because ferrari have already signed vettel. so if alonso wants to leave its best for them just to activate the clause? they won't want to play hard ball and cost themselves millions again aka kimi will they?
Manoah2u wrote:Felipe Nasr signed with Sauber alongside Marcus Ericsson, Banco do Brasil will join Nasr @ Sauber. I expect a quite yellow sauber next year, which is a good thing - i'm missing the yellow cars (Camel Lotus was the best yellow car ever).
No yellow car. Banco do Brasil aka BB said that Sauber's 2015 car will be blue, with BB logos on sidepods and on rear wing. When I read that i though something like Carlin GP2 livery.
My guess? Pretty much what EJ came up with a few races back; post Spa either Alonso or his management became convinced Hamilton was going to walk from Merc, so they got to work getting him out of Ferrari. By the time he realised that was a non starter, Ferrari had already snapped up Vettel as his replacement.
Alonso is now left with a choice of Mclaren or bust. Trying to generate stories about him getting into a Merc are either to try and make him look like less of, well, an idiot for starting the process of moving with no deal done, by making the concept of Lewis leaving even slightly credible, and / or to give him some strength in his negotiating position with Mclaren.
Lewis is going nowhere, the guy is easily the happiest he's come across in years, the team seem happy, and Lewis, Toto and Niki are not guys who pull any punches or make statements for no reason. If Alonso really is hanging on in hope for that seat opening up, then you really have to question the people advising him, more so than the other questionable career moves he's made to date.
Wow! Ferrari in 2015 will have the trio of Alonzo, Vettel, and Raikonen, but everyone knows they still won't be within light years of winning a championship because the car won't be up to it! The only way they could have a more extreme ratio of driver to car quality was if they added the ghosts of Jim Clark and Ayrton Senna and had all five of them drive Minardis!
I agree with people who say this silly season is a chicken game to see which side "quits" the Alonso-Ferrari contract first and thereby has to pay or give-up lots of money. It's the only scenario that explains the lack of firm "openly known rumors". Apparently Alonso believes he has the timing and the contingencies to win (contingent contract that says "if Ferrari fires me then I commit to McLaren"). I wish him well, and it will make the end of the season and the off-season very interesting!
Reminds me a bit of bump days at Indy qualifying where drivers occasionally change teams while their car is in line to do a qualifying run. The Alonso silliness could go until the first race weekend of next season before it gets worked out!! Delicious!!
If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.
Redragon wrote:Well as I said, it looks he is thinking to stay another year at least, better option that Mclaren in my opinion if he really have a shout on Mercedes http://motor.as.com/motor/2014/11/06/fo ... 56932.html
There is nothing in this article to say that he is seriously thinking about staying in Ferrari next season, tis bullshit, he will leave the team, for sure.
