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The '14 driver transfer discussion/speculation thread
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Jules Bianchi to replace Kimi in testing, Alonso will be doing simulator work in Italy. Of course this probably means nothing. However, why waste your real car's track time with Bianchi if you can bring Alonso? I think they'll be testing the car and the driver too.
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...becasue Bianchi is still a Ferrari driver, and was their development driver in the past. I mean I too see Bianchi being in a better team not too far down the road like Hulkenberg but I wouldn't read to much into this...yet. Also it's been shown that Alonso usually doesn't do the on track testing since he's been at Ferrari so and with Kimi's wreck it was either Bianchi or Kobiyashi.
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I thought Kobayashi wasn't affiliated with Ferrari any more after he refused their Multi-year factory GT offer in favour of an F1 drive with Caterham? Regardless, as you said Alonso tends to allow others to do the testing, or at least let them go first. Not too much to read into really, Bianchi was already the front runner to replace Kimi in 2016.
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Adam Cooper is reporting that Red Bull could place Carlos Sainz Jnr. at Caterham before the year is out, similar to their placing Ricciardo at HRT in 2011, though he offers no insight as to who Sainz might replace, as senior figures within Red Bull want him to focus all of his energy on winning the Formula Renault 3.5 Series title before they talk about Formula 1.
My guess is that if these rumours prove to be true, the Caterham driver who will be ousted, will be the one who brings the least amount of sponsorship money to the team. Which is almost certainly Kamui.
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That'd be a bad move and Kolles would probably know better than to do this, but then again that's probably why RBR think they can buy out who is ever there and put in Sainz.
Sounds like the exact sort of bad move I'd expect Kolles to make, to be honest. It outstands me as to why some people even lowly rate him; I don't rate him at all. He's a blooming joke! In the previous two teams he was involved in, he made a ridiculous habit of spending money in all the wrong places. Which is why they both made hardly any progress; and in the case of HRT, got driven into the ground. I mean forking out millions on a new HQ in a far from optimal location, in my opinion at least, wins the award for the 'Biggest Formula One Brain Fart' ever! Honestly I think he should go back to his family dentist in Romania, and stay there!
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Sounds like the exact sort of bad move I'd expect Kolles to make, to be honest. It outstands me as to why some people even lowly rate him; I don't rate him at all. He's a blooming joke! In the previous two teams he was involved in, he made a ridiculous habit of spending money in all the wrong places. Which is why they both made hardly any progress; and in the case of HRT, got driven into the ground. I mean forking out millions on a new HQ in a far from optimal location, in my opinion at least, wins the award for the 'Biggest Formula One Brain Fart' ever! Honestly I think he should go back to his family dentist in Romania, and stay there!
I only lowly rate him because I don't like the idea of the cheat (Flavio) back on the grid but if it happens it happens. I agree he's not that great in his own right and after the black mail scandal I don't like Kolles even more. I agree he would probably throw out a driver that can develop a car like Kobayashi for a money backed younger racer. Though his decision to place Narain in the HRT may say otherwise.
As for the new HQ that wasn't his decision really I recall that being all on Sala.
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For some reason I remembered it being Kolles; although I just looked it up and you're right, it was Sala. My bad!
Even so I think Kolles going back to fixing dentures, would only be good news for the sport! 
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Excuse me if this has been posted before but here's what MonsieurF1 (first one to say Maldonado will go to Lotus and Bouiller will go to McLaren) thinks about the 2015 driver line-ups
Monsieur_F1 ( Mr.F1) @MonsieurF1 · 30 Jun
2015
@alo_oficial->@MercedesAMGF1
@nico_rosberg ->@MercedesAMGF1 or @RedBullRacing
@LewisHamilton ->@redbullracing or @MercedesAMGF1
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2015
#Vettel -> @MclarenF1
@NicoHulkenberg -> @InsideFerrari
@Jules_Bianchi -> @clubforce India
@jensonbutton -> @MclarenF1
Monsieur_F1 ( Mr.F1) @MonsieurF1 · 30 Jun
2015
@alo_oficial->@MercedesAMGF1
@nico_rosberg ->@MercedesAMGF1 or @RedBullRacing
@LewisHamilton ->@redbullracing or @MercedesAMGF1
1/2
2015
#Vettel -> @MclarenF1
@NicoHulkenberg -> @InsideFerrari
@Jules_Bianchi -> @clubforce India
@jensonbutton -> @MclarenF1
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Nathanael Berthon has joined Caterham as a development driver.
It's an auspicious sign that the first thing Caterham's new management does is take on a paying driver for a development role. But according to Kolles, the team was in a shambles - people being over-paid and under-used, and no long-term plans to speak of.
It's an auspicious sign that the first thing Caterham's new management does is take on a paying driver for a development role. But according to Kolles, the team was in a shambles - people being over-paid and under-used, and no long-term plans to speak of.
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Which was vastly opposite of what Cybril claimed last year.
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He's a manager, and he thinks like one. He probably did everything he was "supposed" to do, unaware of how Formula One is different to anything he has dealt with before.
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Or what Fernandes told him to do, either way what we were fed wasn't truth, as if that's some shocker.
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True, but I wouldn't call it a lie, either. They just made the same mistake Honda made in 2007-08, and assumed that the team could be run like a business, and so they did just that.
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Carlos Sainz Jnr. has reportedly told a Spanish newspaper that he was in talks to replace Kamui Kobayashi at the German Grand Prix in exchange for Red Bull wiping out some of Caterham's debt from their gearbox deal, but talks fell apart.
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Redbull would be smart to replace ericsson, that's if they want to see what Sainz is really made of against Koba.
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Going by what Sainz has apparently said, the deal fell through because there wasn't enough time to finalise it. The team had to prepare for running in the Silverstone test, and he was due in Moscow for a FR3.5 Series race, and then Caterham had to prepare for Hockenheim.
And from the sounds of things, the deal wasn't proposed until the sale was complete.
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http://en.espnf1.com/caterham/motorsport/story/166959.html
That says Sainz got approached by the new owner.
The rest is all speculation over who he would replace if need be.
That says Sainz got approached by the new owner.
The rest is all speculation over who he would replace if need be.
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In the original interview, he names Kobayashi. I might not be able to read Spanish, but Kobayashi is spelt the same way as it is in English. ESPN have evidently chosen to omit that detail.
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Rossi's left Caterham.
http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/1...pany-with-both-caterham8217s-f1-and-gp2-teams
http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/1...pany-with-both-caterham8217s-f1-and-gp2-teams
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He was never going to make it in Formula 1. It's pretty telling that they let him go, but kept Robin Frijns.
Anyway, Carlos Sainz Jnr. has been told by Red Bull senior management that his immediate future is in Formula Renault 3.5. He might get promoted in the future, but it's not an option until he's finished his current campaign.
Elsewhere, European F3 leader's Esteban Ocon hasn't had a Formula 1 start ruled out. He and his managers are focusing on GP2 and FR3.5 for 2015, but if the right opportunity presents itself, then they would be interested in more.
Anyway, Carlos Sainz Jnr. has been told by Red Bull senior management that his immediate future is in Formula Renault 3.5. He might get promoted in the future, but it's not an option until he's finished his current campaign.
Elsewhere, European F3 leader's Esteban Ocon hasn't had a Formula 1 start ruled out. He and his managers are focusing on GP2 and FR3.5 for 2015, but if the right opportunity presents itself, then they would be interested in more.
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Agree to disagree prisonermonkeys. I think now that Rossi has cut ties with Caterham knowing he was never going to get a seat there, he is now a front runner for a Haas seat in '16, but he needs to find some seat in some series to stay sharp Maybe FR3.5 or even IndyCar.
As for the rest of the market I see very little changes as far as the front teams go (Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari) it will be interesting to see what Button does if he stays at McLaren or is replaced. Backmarkers will be the norm with either pay drivers or big teams wanting junior drivers to get F1 seat time
As for the rest of the market I see very little changes as far as the front teams go (Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari) it will be interesting to see what Button does if he stays at McLaren or is replaced. Backmarkers will be the norm with either pay drivers or big teams wanting junior drivers to get F1 seat time
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