Silly Season 2016/2017

[f1316]

I really think it'll be Wehrlein. They've been angling to get him in for a while, need to show faith in their young driver program, and it'll likely save them a lot of hassles as I think Lewis will have a consistent edge. If Mercedes still have a sizeable performance advantage, it'll be easy to put all their eggs in the one basket.

I hope I'm wrong - the Alonso idea is the most interesting to me (and Wolf has spoken of him being an option to replace their drivers in the past) - but I think it's much easier all round for Mercedes to go with their home grown guy.

[TAG]

or Button???

Mercedes has never suffered from inexplicable loss of rear grip between FP3 and Qualifying. Button could test that for them.

[A-Bap]

God I would love to see Grojean join the team. It wouldn't be a bad choice either because he's quick, probably quicker than Nico was, and very smart and pretty experienced, too. And holy --- would he give Hamilton fits.

[NAPI10]

Looking at the development of 2017 cars ; how fast Merc has to decide on replacement driver?

[kooleracer]

or Button???

Mercedes has never suffered from inexplicable loss of rear grip between FP3 and Qualifying. Button could test that for them.

=D>

[FrukostScones]

God I would love to see Grojean join the team. It wouldn't be a bad choice either because he's quick, probably quicker than Nico was, and very smart and pretty experienced, too. And holy --- would he give Hamilton fits.

LOL, he was slower than RAI, how can he be faster than ROS (who is just 0.1xx off HAM)

[TAG]

Didn't Hamilton get sick and they put Wehrlein in to drive recently?

[Paul]

Wehrlein was always going to drive that day.

[FrukostScones]

Didn't Hamilton get sick and they put Wehrlein in to drive recently?

HAM had no just to test.

[godlameroso]

God I would love to see Grojean join the team. It wouldn't be a bad choice either because he's quick, probably quicker than Nico was, and very smart and pretty experienced, too. And holy --- would he give Hamilton fits.

LOL, he was slower than RAI, how can he be faster than ROS (who is just 0.1xx off HAM)

Did we watch the same 2013?

[WaikeCU]

I really think it'll be Wehrlein. They've been angling to get him in for a while, need to show faith in their young driver program, and it'll likely save them a lot of hassles as I think Lewis will have a consistent edge. If Mercedes still have a sizeable performance advantage, it'll be easy to put all their eggs in the one basket.

I hope I'm wrong - the Alonso idea is the most interesting to me (and Wolf has spoken of him being an option to replace their drivers in the past) - but I think it's much easier all round for Mercedes to go with their home grown guy.

Conservative Germans being conservative.

[Vasconia]

Wehrlein is the obvious choice, though other options like Vettel or Alonso would make me happy.

But from Mercedes point of view Pascal seems like the easiest option to manage. He would be the unofficial second driver.

[Vasconia]

I really think it'll be Wehrlein. They've been angling to get him in for a while, need to show faith in their young driver program, and it'll likely save them a lot of hassles as I think Lewis will have a consistent edge. If Mercedes still have a sizeable performance advantage, it'll be easy to put all their eggs in the one basket.

I hope I'm wrong - the Alonso idea is the most interesting to me (and Wolf has spoken of him being an option to replace their drivers in the past) - but I think it's much easier all round for Mercedes to go with their home grown guy.

Conservative Germans being conservative.

It´s common sense. Yes, Alonso and Hamilton would push like crazy people, the spectacle for us would be fenomenal but for Mercedes it would be a nightmare to manage.

[TAG]

Yikes, I shudder at the thought of Hamilton with a dedicated number two driver.

[ThommyH]

Button posted this photo yesterday. But where was it taken? Perhaps at Mercedes?