Esteban Ocon's future drives

[Zarathustra]

My guess?

Bottas keeps his seat.
Ocon to Renault.
Hulkenberg to Haas.
Grosjean out.

[NathanOlder]

Surely Renault won't ditch Hulkenberg though?

[dans79]

Surely Renault won't ditch Hulkenberg though?

Hulk will be 32 next year, has one pole and has never finished higher than 4th in 166 starts (this is a record). His 2019 contract is alleged to be 4.5 Million.

I'm sure Ocon will be much cheaper, and has a lot more time left than Hulk does!

[Zarathustra]

+ he’s French.

[Jolle]

+ he’s French.

+ he's been in their program even before Renault took control again (And been their reserve driver)

[izzy]

isn't the best thing for pretty much everybody to lend Esteban to Haas and see how he and Valtteri each get on for a few races? apart from for Romain of course

[Manoah2u]

If his seat won't get continued, which i expect, then i'm positive Hulk is gonna retire from F1 and fancy LeMans and WEC.

[Pyrone89]

Ocon to Renault sounds logical, but only if he completely severs ties with Mercedes. Renault would be stupid to invest in Ocon only to have him pulled finally when the partnership starts getting in the groove. Biggest point for Renault is that Ocon is French and is the fastest of the French drivers. However I still dont see WDC material in him based on his fights with Perez. Now ofcourse it could also be that Perez is secretly WDC material, skewering our judgement.

[Jolle]

Don’t forget that Perez is fast and experienced. He was part of the Ferrari development program and would have replaced Massa if he hadn’t made the choice to fasttrack his career to replace Hamilton at wat we know now the first year of underperformance at McLaren.

If a car is relative easy to drive, you’ll see small to no differences in drivers, so a head to head without a clear winner is more then once a testament to the drivability of a car. Look at the Mercedes from last year (the Diva) vs this year.

[Pyrone89]

Don’t forget that Perez is fast and experienced. He was part of the Ferrari development program and would have replaced Massa if he hadn’t made the choice to fasttrack his career to replace Hamilton at wat we know now the first year of underperformance at McLaren.

If a car is relative easy to drive, you’ll see small to no differences in drivers, so a head to head without a clear winner is more then once a testament to the drivability of a car. Look at the Mercedes from last year (the Diva) vs this year.

How about Ocon replacing Grosjean for the remainder of the season, Haas gets a better driver and has time to look for a 2020 replacement, Ocon and his future employer happy because he can get back in the race ritum already instead of having to waste the first races at his new employer to do that. If Haas plays it smart they can even get some money on top of it from Ocon’s future employer for that service.

[Zarathustra]

My guess?

Bottas keeps his seat.
Ocon to Renault.
Hulkenberg to Haas.
Grosjean out.

whois daddy..

[Webber2011]

My guess?

Bottas keeps his seat.
Ocon to Renault.
Hulkenberg to Haas.
Grosjean out.

whois daddy..

Hahaha

Well played Sir