True enough Josh.But Proton are now owned by DRB Hicom. not the Malysian government.Added to which Genii have just completed a due diligence inspection of Group Lotus with an intention to buy.
Just been thinking about the new Caterham situation. Petrov has now bought his way in to the second seat but Fernandes has Van Der Garde sitting in the wings who illedgedly has 6 million Euro's in his pocket so Petrov better be quick to prove his worth. Now the roubles have been handed over and Trulli's contract bought out I would not be surprised if before the end of the season Vitaly is shown the door whilst Giedo is ushered in - Fernandes collects another big pay check to secure his teams future and then he doesn't have to have a pay driver in 2013 thus allowing him to bring in either Razia or Rossi from GP2 just in time for the team to edge into competitivness. A lot of conjection but that would be a slick business move
If you look at these two comments it would seem that Fernandes is feeling the financial strain of running his F1 team.
Very magnanimous comments from Jarno - started on the Vino Rosso early today I see "It dulls the pain!"
Yeah hats off to Jarno for not getting his moan on in a situation where frankly you wouldn't blame him
Whoo! What did I say? I like Caterham but wish they'd swap Trulli, they must have heard me!!And for PetrovI like him!!
True enough.But Jarno intends to keep racing.He may drop down a formula and race in one of the Caterham Group lower formula's but he wants to race something. His words here seem to indicate that he has severed all ties with Caterham.
Why didn't they sign Petrov earlier before the tests started? Bit of a shame for Trulli from "best testing ever" to no drive in the space of a week.
Wouldn't it be great if that is an example of what we have to look forward to on Sky F1 - Shades of John Frakenheimers Grand Prix.
So I read an interview with the Dutch F1 commentator today and he had a few interesting things to say. Apparently, Giedo van der Garde was set to actually race for Caterham this season if Trulli quit. However, at the last moment, Petrov bought himself a seat (with an option, but I'm not entirely sure what that means) with 11 million dollars thus putting van der Garde out of the race seat. Petrov was fired because of financial issues, so if he has financial problems again this season van der Garde will drive for Caterham. Olav Mol (the commentator) said he knows all this from an inside source. I'm not sure how much (if any) of this is true but I don't really see a reason for him to lie about this or anything.
The commentator is dutch and Giedo van der Garde is also Dutch. This provides a nationalistic motivation for economic truths. I'm not saying he is lying, but if you are looking for reason why he might that would be an extremely obvious one.
Tony Fernandez sits a bit dejected watching the final laps of the Australian Grand Prix when his mobile phone goes: TF: Jarno? JT: I told you the power steering was shit!
