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.
Mclaren need Ron Dennis as he is Mclaren. Unless Ron is running the team and kicking honda and the engineers while having alonso as his wing man, there is no shorter route to a WDC.f1universe wrote:I understand why Alonso and Dennis will not want to take tea together but they should put the team first, nobody is going to ask them to hug or anything like that, just work as the professionals they are.
But if I have to take Alonso or Dennis, I will take Alonso, as much success Dennis had in the past, that was a long time ago, in the last 10 years he screw things more than fix it.
My opinion.
Silly season or not isn't it too much to have three cars and junior teams at the same time? BTW McLaren and Horner are not keen on three cars, probably because it would mean the whole podium for Mercedes, expect customer cars instead. In your scenario: if Magnussen is not good enough even for the third car why keep him at alladrianjordan wrote:Personally I would love to see JB stay at McLaren. So here's my (probably fantasy land) scenario:
McLaren sign Alonso and Button for next season as well as surprising everyone by agreeing to run a 3rd car with Vandoorne in it (to benefit from the extra mileage).
Magnussen is given a seat at the new McLaren (Honda owned and powered) junior team (built from the remanants of Marussia and run by Mr Aguri...) alongside Kobayashi....
(Well it IS called "Silly Season"..!!)
?Makes sense and might explain why they delay second driver announcement, it's not like they don't know everything about them. If you add recent changes in technical department it's too big of a chaos for a serious contender.Sasha wrote: [...] So there is a power struggle going on at Mclaren at the moment.Dennis(25%) is trying to stay as boss but BMH(50%) and Honda wants either Berger,Whitmarsh(signed Honda) or Horner.Nobody knows yet what was the outcome of the emergency meeting of the three shareholders of Mclaren.It looks like Dennis has the support of Ogier(25%),so it's a Mexican standoff!
And that was the major reason Alonso didn't sign the dotted line until now.(so is Dennis gone and back to the auto side?)
You might not be too far off. Fill the grid with customer teams, even GP2 teams if needediotar__ wrote:Good thing is that in the near future of F1 as a pro wrestling type pseudo sport bad driver choices won't matter much.If we replace competition with junior teams we can fail season after season (McLaren/Ferrari), money is similar and the worst position fourth.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116734
mikeerfol wrote:Can Silly season get sillier? Obvious answer: Yes it can! http://blog.axisofoversteer.com/2014/11 ... ht-be.html
http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/co ... scom:speedCome race with us: Mark Webber encourages Button to come to FIA WEC
Bet you its a test driver, not one from the current line upLasse-E wrote:McLaren will be running there Honda powered development car at Silverstone tomorrow, would be interesting to know who is going to drive it, as that might give a solid indication of 2015 driver line-up.
You might be right, but it would make sense to run a driver with experiences of their 2014 car, so I guess Vandoorne is a likely candidate, as he as far as I know is the only other driver to have tested for McLaren this year.Bet you its a get driver, not one from the current line up
