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The second rumour is that Nico Rosberg may switch to BMW to replace Nick Heidfeld. Again, it doesn't make a huge amount of sense. Williams seem to be getting better, whilst BMW are still lagging.
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I cant see Williams hanging onto Rosberg next season. They'd love to, but they are unlikely to be able to afford it.
They've have some financial challenges in recent years - rumoured bail outs from Bernie. Lost some sponsors and due to lose their major sponsor at the end of this season. Remember that they were very quick to sign up for the budget cap - easy to guess why.
As long as Nakajimas bringing in enough funding to pay his way, he'll stay. Williams appear to be promoting Nakajima's image a lot more off the track leading me to suspect that they are trying to raise his profile to prepare the way for his elevation to number 1 driver in 2010. I would expect Williams to use a pay driver or one on loan from another team as number 2 in 2010.