FW17 wrote:Pastor Maldanado spoilt it for all pay drivers with a cheque in excess of $40 million
I think Perez is also bringing in close to that
Palmers Lotus drives for Friday where at $375,000 a session and he did something around 13 last year.
- Spoilt? What does it even mean? Spolit with winning the race against some competition (not Herbert type), speed and performing (unlike those non pay drivers) against good benchmarks (unlike RB drivres). He's not in F1 for a year, what's the purpose of bringing it the context of '17? Information that has no value.
- Perez "same - you think", meaning you made it up? Again: performing better than drivers paid 30, 20, 35 and 15 million: Vettel, Raikkonen, Alonso and Button, and many more starting with Hulkenberg (non pay driver
) Massa, Kvyat, Sainz, Ricciardo, Verstappen. Perhaps you should ask yourself why they keep non paying drivers.
- Palmer, this one is weird not only because of lack of talent:
http://en.f1i.com/news/79713-magnussen- ... offer.html Apparently Renault offered Magnussen a drive and he turned it down.
The deal was only for this year with an option for 2017 that had to be activated by October 1. The 24-year-old agreed to extend the deadline for another two weeks but a confirmation never materialised.
- Since it was up to them to keep him with a clear deadline (later extended with his consent) why was he surprised they didn't inform him about negotiations with other drivers? He forgot how he replaced Perez?
- If they wanted to keep him why didn't they extend his contract when they could?
- Weird decision, he was fine with staying 01.10 - 14.10 but not later? He should have stayed.
