Vettel's next team mate SPECULATIONOMETER

[Greenlantern101]

Webber is quitting F1 at the end of the year.
Let the games begin. Place your bets. Ask the octopus. Crystal balls on standby. etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/23074108

 

[LifeW12]

KIMI

 

[Brogan]

Not sure it matters who Vettel's next bitch is, does it?

 

[Greenlantern101]

Unless his bitch bitches harder than he can bitch.

 

[GermanF1]

Those Toro Rosso drivers are crap.

 

[Tuscan1969]

Kimi please - and then Di Resta to Lotus

 

[RasputinLives]

I shall remind everyone we all voted on this a while back so no changing now!

http://cliptheapex.com/threads/if-s...-bull-for-2014-who-will-be-his-teammate.6143/

Kimi vs Ricciardo according to CTA. I wonder if JEV may have got a few more votes if it had been done now.

 

[no-FIAt-please]

If Vettel beats Raikkonen his stock can only rise. The only questions to remain are, does Raikkonen want to go to Red Bull (surely yes) and will Vettel try and block the move?

 

[Greenlantern101]

I wonder if Hamilton is wishing he had signed just a 1 year contract.

 

[teabagyokel]

I've found the SPECULATIONOMETER, actually Greenlantern101

 

[Greenlantern101]

 

[KekeTheKing]

Fantastic news. It has to be Kimi in that seat. I think Seb would welcome the new challenge.

 

[Greenlantern101]

I think Seb would fight Kimi joining the team. He may have no choice. But I doupt he would enjoy such a strong team mate taking points from him. You just have to look at 2010 when Mark was taking points from him. Turkeytastrophy.

 

[sushifiesta]

I'm not sure either Raikkonen or Vettel will much like the idea of having to battle for supremacy. I'd still like to see Hulkenberg get the seat.

 

[RasputinLives]

and that wouldn't be a battle for supremacy?

If Seb wants a number 2 we'll get one of the Toro Rosso boys. If he says bring it on we'll get Kimi or the Hulk.

If Newey wants a technical link to him and the car we'll get Rosberg.

If Red Bull want a brand booster we'll get Lewis or Schumacher.

 

[KekeTheKing]

Greenlantern101 - If Seb ends up being the deciding factor keeping Kimi away, then every suggestion that this guys behind the scenes petulance knows no bounds will have been proven true. It would be the most embarrassing episode of his career if it was ever publicly acknowledged that he indeed "vetoed" Raikkonen's arrival.

You would really like to think that a (soon to be) 4xWDC would be confident enough to take on another top tier driver in equal machinery. Although I suppose I could see why he might be wary of this prospect, seeing as he hasn't faced such a challenge since 2006 when Paul di Resta beat him to the F3 Title in the same car.

 

[Josh]

I seem to recall a certain Brazilian driver vetoing the arrival of other drivers into "his" team...

 

[KekeTheKing]

Yeah, c_a_t brought that up in his post on Warwick in the underrated thread, but the difference there is that Senna was without a title at that point, whereas Vettel is likely to have 4 soon.

 

[RasputinLives]

Prost refused Senna at Williams in 93.

Mansell tried to refuse Prost at Williams 92

probably loads more.

 

[KekeTheKing]

RasputinLives

The Prost/Senna 1993 thing was obviously because of their past history. Nothing even remotely like that exists for Seb/Kimi.