2016-17 Silly Season. Drivers Market

The current alumni of graduation from DTM to F1 consists of Christian Albert, Paul Di Resta and Pascal Wherlein.

The latter is not doing bad but you kind of think that despite of his time in DTM rather than because of it.
 
RasputinLives Other drives who graduated with DTM background and lets say their success rate is not great

Jan Magnussen - dubbed "the Best natural talent since Ayrton Senna "by no less than JYS who had Mercedes and Mclaren nurturing his young career. Then it went pearshaped joining his old F3 team Stewart barely lasting two seasons and complaining he did not get enough testing opportunities

Giancarlo Fisichella - 3 wins but they should have been more had he not let Flavio Briatore dictate his career too much joining teams at the wrong time
 
RasputinLives Vandoorne is going to be in F1 no matter what if Mclaren don;t place him, Renault will pitting Magnussen vs Vandoorne again that is some partnership and possible rivals for many years
 
Formula 1 in 2017: The state of play in the driver market decoded

Here's Skysports or more like Crofty's view

RasputinLives it just won't go away that Renault seriously want to put Ocon into one of their cars

Don't know where the rumours are circulating but Sainz to Renault makes very little sense unless Red Bull will get some whopping engine discount...and really after the treatment they gave Renault last year .. they don't deserve it
 
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It makes little sense unless someone is trying to drive the Carlos Sainz PR machine but that has probably run out of steam for this season unless Ferrari do a swerve and sign him and drop Raikkonen

As attractive as it sounds to be with Renault with their history I don't see how he could be there long term with the list of young drivers in waiting they have
 
But he's signed contract. Deal done. No need for PR. I think some journalist was just short of ideas for column space.
 
there are no decent seats up for grabs and as soon as Raikkonen was confirmed that is the end of the silly season unless Ron does one of his stupid ditherings in naming his drivers

I would like Jenson to sign the contract at Williams.... he should do a Mansell TV speech ala 1990 to state that he is racing for the world championship and not to make up numbers

Jolyon brushes off Ocon rumours

Formula 1: Jolyon Palmer unconcerned by speculation Esteban Ocon could take his seat
 
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Damn school holidays. We normally chat with a friend at the school gates two days a week. She is an Italian translator and could have been some help with the above.
 
Google translate Bill Boddy. ;)

All in all, it doesn't look good for Ferrari if they lose Allison, since there is no one big enough who can fill his shoes. Brawn seems out of the question.
 
RasputinLives He needs to show more consistency I thought he was going to be up there challenging Gp2 this season

He's doing badly compared to Jordan King and Oliver Rowland

Having not rated him that much suddenly Gasly has found himself in the championship lead and right on queue to push himself into the Toro Rosso seat ( poor Dani Kyvat)

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Olivier If Ferrari wants Brawn back it just shows how badly they are struggling to understand the problems with the car

Brawn would not go back because of the politics. He had Todt backing his corner last time but he was overlooked for the team principal role and left and probably knew what was coming with Luca Di Montezemolo wanting a more Italian looking team
 
RasputinLives Lynn is good & there is a likelyhood 2017 could be Button & Bottas/Lynn at Williams. but watching GP2 this year he wouldn't even be 1st on the list, i think Pierre Gasly Giovernazi & Oliver Rowland deserve it more (nothing do with Rowland being from Sheffield :whistle:)
 
Google translate can't get even short pieces into actual English Bushi so a long article does not have much chance.

Incidentally our friend gets pieces to translate into Italian that are written in such bad English that she sometimes has to guess what is intended. But then reporters nowadays seem to have missed out on passing English Language in GCSE exams.
 
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