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Adrian Sutil |
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10 | 30.30% |
Jules Bianchi |
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23 | 69.70% |
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Force India-Second driver...
Okay if you are on the board of directors at Force India who do you choose..
Go ahead, and explain why please... |
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Way more experience, and a better driver...
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Sutil , purely for the experience but I am sure I read that there may be worries about travel because of his conviction .
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I don't believe that to be an issue otherwise the team would not be testing him..
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Sutil for experience. Bianchi for the short term, and some cash and/or Ferrari engines next season. Karthikeyan just for cash.
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Bianchi. One of the strongest junior category CVs of drivers not in F1, discounted Ferrari engines for next year and someone who isn't cancer for sponsorship.
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jules, he's damn quick, he delivers, his blonde moments are relatively infrequent, and he's a good racer too. his racing brain is pretty much second to none.
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But the question is "If you were on the board..." and I think 2014 and engines/drivetrain must be a factor in all this? That might be be red herring though.... ![]() |
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Jules - he's shown in the junior categories that he has the racecraft and the drive. I think the new blood deserves the chance here, given that FI have di Resta with a couple of year's experience - if their other driver was a rookie, I might choose the other way.
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looking at it if i was on the board? well, i'd be privy to a lot more information than i am now - for example, the commercial offers from both ferrari and mercedes, the amount of work that changing the engine supplier (and technology provider, whatever that means) entails, exactly how big a factor money is in all this and exactly how critical wallet girth is in all this.
without all that knowledge i can only assume it's purely down to driver factors. it's not as if we know who has the best commercial offering on the table ![]() |
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Neither of those. I'd go for Kamui Kobayashi because he's pretty quick and coming on quite well.
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Not Sutil - too much Groundhog Day going on....
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![]() I know little of Bianchi, so I'm not well-placed to comment, but from what I've read here he's taking a while to get good form, so he seems to be in a fortunate place with Force India (I'm mainly thinking of how I've interpreted bella's comments previously). |
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Sutil. People forget he had a blinder of a season in 2011. He pushed that car real, real hard!
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would i have the guts to make the hard call? Sutil is good but a known quantity. if he does well would anyone notice?
its a risk but with the rookie you have a chance to confound expectations and if it works then thats a lot of positive attention for the team which could use it. if he comes with a cheap engine deal then the risk becomes more manageable. |
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Bianchi. Out with the old and in with the new. Sutil has too much baggage and Bianchi has a fresh impetus which could lead to additional support for the team from 2014
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I am going to throw a spanner in the works because this wont happen. BUT I would have taken Adrian and Jules and let Paul go...
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If I were an FI board director, I would have done this too. The team needs money and also needs to try out a potential rising star. Paul offers neither at this stage and together, the other pair offer both.
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