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As for Manor F1, nobody knows
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Lotus F1 Team have confirmed that the 2014 GP2 champion, and the team's current test driver, Jolyon Palmer will race for the team during the 2016 F1 season, alongside Pastor Maldonado.
Haryanto said in his press conference Manor would announce their drivers this week coming.Mr Brooksy wrote:I've not read anything like a time frame for driver announcements, can you give some kind of link to your post? I'd love to read whatever you've read. Ta!cbbcisace wrote:The final seats should get announced this week!
Manor Racing: between Rossi/Haryanto/Stevens/Werhlein/Magnussen
Renault: Palmer and either Pastor or Magnussen.
Renault are having a media event in Paris on the 3rd.ME4ME wrote:Renault has said they'd explain more about their F1 operation in februari, including management and driver line-up.
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Well, all the seats are reserved except the ones at Manor. I think even those are not reachable anymore for him since it's clear PDVSA is not going to sponsor him with the same financial backing anymore, if any at all.FrukostScones wrote:the question now,
"Where will MAL resurface?" (if he ever will...
Manor is too low for him. So ... Sauber, Findia...Willimas, Indycar?
I'd replace Raikkonen with him.
turbof1 wrote:Well, all the seats are reserved except the ones at Manor. I think even those are not reachable anymore for him since it's clear PDVSA is not going to sponsor him with the same financial backing anymore, if any at all.FrukostScones wrote:the question now,
"Where will MAL resurface?" (if he ever will...
Manor is too low for him. So ... Sauber, Findia...Willimas, Indycar?
I'd replace Raikkonen with him.
He'll probably will go abroad to a different motorsport.
I still rate the chances quite low: PDVSA is experiencing huge issues with both the economic regression in Venezuela, and the low international oil prices. Furthermore, PDVSA is milked as a cash cow for the government. With the cash cow now going dry, and with high civil unrest, I don't think they can motivate sponsoring Maldonado any longer.FoxHound wrote:If PDVSA come up with half they paid Renault, $25M, I would say Maldonado is a dead cert for Manor.
That fee would pay their engines for the entire season, and help the team galvanise for future championships.
Maldonado would remain, and PDVSA will halve their investment to retain their interest in the sport.
And we get to debate about just how "terrible" Pastor is. Win, win, win, win.
The losers would obviously be Wehrlein, or any other driver who'd be incumbent in the seat.
But, Wehrlein is a Mercedes protege and current DTM champion, so he'll likely end up at the silverarrows in the not too distant future.
http://www.lotusf1team.com/partners/pdvsa/pdvsa/The New PDVSA is the most authentic demonstration of the sovereign oil policies of the Venezuelan people
), and of course Chavez Marduro were/are socialist facist tyrant nutcases that destroyed their own country, but at least they did it to and for their own country. Really? That's a pretty rotten attitude. Venuzuela is in pretty bad shape.FrukostScones wrote:Get over it.