Ferrari
5 Fernando Alonso (ESP)
6 Felipe Massa (BRA)
Still wondering about Massa... He's not just Number 2. While Alonso regularly overperforms the car, Massa underperforms. That gap is too big, if Massa starts next season like that, I wonder if he's going to finish the season.
Lotus Renault
9 Kimi Raikkonen (FIN)
10 TBA
It could be Grosjean... Give him a second try. But there's nearly anyone linked with them: Senna, Petrov, Glock(!), Sutil(After what happened at Singapore, probably not anymore) , Barrichello,
Donald Duck?, etc. Why not D'Ambrosio? Would be interesting. Last thing I heard is that female racer Maria De Villota is going to sign a test contract at the age of 31. Question: Why don't you join HRT? They're Spanish too, need money and PR. Interested?
Force India Mercedes
11 TBA
12 TBA
Good bye Adrian "Stupil". While I regretted his exit at Monaco a long time ago(Brakes Kimi, hello!), he went on to crash out at all races he did well in, especially the wet ones where the looked best. Now, he seemingly has found his level of performance, but in the meantime I don't really care anymore. Di Resta is close to him(Running less stops in races doesn't make you fast though) and might be on his level next season, why keep and elder guy when you have fresh talent(+Mercedes help coming with DiR).
My pick: Di Resta/Hülkenberg(Known as "The incredible HULK"). Does really well in practice sessions, should have never lost his seat. Shake in fear, Sutil!
STR Ferrari
16 TBA
17 TBA
Question mark here: Agly? Buemi? Ricciardo? Vergne?In my opinion, Jaime's seat is set in stone, he matured from last year and was much more consistent. Maybe the new Alonso?
Buemi's season was overshaded with reliability problems. Just look at Japan(Loose wheel, knoobheads), India(engine failure) and Abu Dhabi(Hydraulics). He didn't seem to get chances to beat Algy, but when he did, he wasn't too far from him, although he should beat his teammate as the more experianced one more often.
Ricciardo did some good races in the HRT, but that is difficult to compare. Vergne showed good performances in the Young Drivers test, aswell as the free practice in Yas Marina.
Pick: In normal circumstances, we might see Alguersuari/Buemi again; But it may well happen that either Ricciardo or Vergne take the seat of my fellow countryman.
Williams Renault
18 TBA
19 TBA
Okay, now to the team that apparently had Kimi in the bag, then didn't want to sell Kimi some shares and he buggered off to Lotus/Renault. /sarcasm
The money keeps Williams alive. More precise: Maldonado's money. He'll be there if it doesn't run out over in Venezuela. And he actually has talent. He just needs to be a bit quicker and consistant.
Rubens looks like he's down and out. Interlagos appeared to be his last race maybe, running a special helmet. He's not too bad, but the season never went his way. Scoring at Monaco when Maldonado was infront of him; not impressing.
Pick: Sutil/Maldonado, if Sutil loses out on a Force India seat. But you never know...
Caterham Renault
20 Heikki Kovalainen (FIN)
21 Jarno Trulli (ITA)
I'll make it short: Even thought Jarno has a contract, he should be out. Even with his demanded power steering, Kova beats him hands down. Maybe it's time to look after the wine you produce rather than racing.
It could be that RBR buys the seat for Ricciardo, if Buemi keeps his seat and HRT hire a new puppet.
Pick: Kovalainen/Ricciardo, I know it's more of "I hope", but Trulli isn't really going anywhere performance-wise.
They could have hired Albert Costa. No. They could have hired Canamasas. NO. They could have even gone for Clos. Remains to be seen, while they hired DLR! He's probably a pay-driver with backing of Santander, but I'd have liked either rookies with a chance to display themselves or some other experienced driver. So another seat wasted an some old fart. Great. When did you say Nigel Mansell is coming back?
Second driver could be anyone I guess, even Yamamoney if his mother's money didn't run out. I'd give the seat to a rookie; Clos is one but he didn't impress so far, Costa and Canamasas have a better record in WSBR. Your team is Spanish, you want a Spanish base(Currently Germany thanks to Colin Kolles), you want Spanish backers, so get Spanish drivers(DLR is not enough)! You could even ask De Villota as PR stunn!
Pick: DLR/Whoever has money or talent, preferably both.
Marussia Cosworth
24 Timo Glock (DEU)
25 Charles Pic (FRA)
Just to say: I'd have kept D'Ambrosio or hired Robert Wickens(Even instead of Glock!) But since Glock's only plus is his experience and his input in testing probably, he keeps the seat(He didn't impress me: Jérôme was close to him all season).
If Virigin, oh sorry, Marussia, can develop a good car without just using the damn CAD like Mr Wirth and do proper tests, it may get better!
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