Silly Season 2013/14

[Kiril Varbanov]

I read stories on Twitter about someone who has seen Daniel Ricciardo having a seat measurement in Milton Keynes. While Martin Brundle reminds that he had done YDT for them, hence they have his seat already, this would likely be the 2014 seat fitting. If true.

[sennafan24]

I read stories on Twitter about someone who has seen Daniel Ricciardo having a seat measurement in Milton Keynes. While Martin Brundle reminds that he had done YDT for them, hence they have his seat already, this would likely be the 2014 seat fitting. If true.

I think it is safe to say Riccardo has that seat now.

The question now is, will Kimi stay at Lotus or go to Ferrari. I am hoping Ferrari, as Alonso vs Kimi head to head could be dynamite now I think of it. Brundle and Davidson did a prediction thing on SKY's website, and they think Kimi will stay at Lotus and Hulky will go to Ferrari.

[antsyd]

I recall Sky Sport F1 Coverage on race day at SPA mentioning that Red Bull has spent $150 million to date on their junior driver development programme..

[Tim.Wright]

I read stories on Twitter about someone who has seen Daniel Ricciardo having a seat measurement in Milton Keynes. While Martin Brundle reminds that he had done YDT for them, hence they have his seat already, this would likely be the 2014 seat fitting. If true.

I think it is safe to say Riccardo has that seat now.

The question now is, will Kimi stay at Lotus or go to Ferrari. I am hoping Ferrari, as Alonso vs Kimi head to head could be dynamite now I think of it. Brundle and Davidson did a prediction thing on SKY's website, and they think Kimi will stay at Lotus and Hulky will go to Ferrari.

"There is still no driver confirmed for 2014"

[Webber2011]

From Jonathan Noble on Autosport,

One team principal thought the whole F1 driver market scenario was fairly straightforward.

"It's simple," he smiled over a coffee at Spa. "In Hungary, Fernando and Santander were getting frustrated at Ferrari's lack of results. They started sounding out other teams to see what was available if things didn't improve.

"Ferrari got worried that it could lose its star man so had to make sure Kimi Raikkonen was covered... but as a replacement for Alonso, not a team-mate. That's it. End of story."

link

Sounds like a very smug Ross Brawn to me

[dren]

Sounds like they are feeling out Alonso's contract to see if he makes the performance marks or not to get out of it. Also, I'm curious if they are looking at Button at all. He'd be the perfect Webber replacement. Button works well with good drivers as we saw against Hamilton. I'd almost say you'd have to throw him in this mix too. An Alonso-Kimi-Button toss up. It sounds like Mclaren might even go after Kimi. I'd guess they'd dump Perez for him, but you never know.

[sennafan24]

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"There is still no driver confirmed for 2014"

I really believe Webber, and I cannot go against Eddie Jordan on recent form.

[Racer X]

Plot twist:

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I like this


On a more serious note I dont think Kimi will leave Lotus Button won leave McLaren and Fernando wont leave Ferrari. Mercedez is set with Ross and Hamm. So another 1 year extension I see of all the top teams. With RedBull just adding a newer Aussie to its line-up Mark 2.0 my opinion is they're will be talks and possible deals but come 2014 the only real change we will see is a new Ausssie in place of the old one.

[FrukostScones]

I think piloting a 2014 McLaren is the best opportunity to become WDC, so I wonder there is no hard fight for these seats apparently.

[sennafan24]

I think piloting a 2014 McLaren is the best opportunity to become WDC, so I wonder there is no hard fight for these seats apparently.

Can I ask why you think this?

Head start as they are concentrating on it now?

[turbof1]

[sennafan24]

Ah bit of a whoosh moment for myself then.

[FrukostScones]

I also read it as a serious post.

If my post is meant. I was serious! And yeah, I think Macca in 2014 will be very good.

edit: If you ask me why? they admitted the mistakes they made with the 2013 car, they will revert back to push-rod front suspension (afaik) and have a big budget and good people. Merc engine, no mistakes like in 2013, so no reason to not see them as force in 2014.

question: eninges are frozen in 2014 but then in 2015 there will be development allowed.... 2014+ engine rules are that complicated.... And how the engine and ancillaries works even more

[turbof1]

Ok, I was convinced it was sarcasm. Guessed I overthought that one .

I don't see mclaren doing a good job next year, simply because mercedes will only offer the support they are contractly obliged to. Things like engine mapping, torque effect on tyres etc, that's info mercedes will want to keep for themselves.

[Powershift]

When this writer asked Bernie Ecclestone if he thought that Felipe Massa would be staying at Maranello, he replied: “They should be more worried about hanging on to Alonso…”
... While many observers struggle to understand why Alonso might want to leave Ferrari, it may well be that he simply has fears about the competitiveness of the 2014 powertrain package.

another nail in the coffin...

It would be a huge coup for Red Bull to lure Alonso away from Ferrari. Not only would they get the best line up with potentially six championships between the guys but also they would weaken Ferrari significantly. How can you demonstrate crushing superiority any better than by humiliating the mighty Scuderia which used to have first pick from the top talent of F1 racers for generations? The same team that called Red Bull in a very patronizing way "Only a drinks company". It would be just the sweetest revenge for Mateschitz to show Montezemlo what a drinks company can do in F1. I can imagine the sniping that would go down if they manage to achieve it.

"Hey, we got ourselves a private GP from Ecclestone and we can even use Ferrari as a junior team to train our driving talent. Not so bad for a drinks company, I would say."

That would be so great if only to remove the extra money(and distribute it to the smaller teams) and veto power Ferrari currently has, F1 would be so much better off for it.