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2006 Driver line up
I am now starting to lose track of this, here is my best guess:
BAR: RB, JB? / TS? / NH? BMW: NH? / JV? / N.Rosberg? Ferrari: MS?, FM McLaren: KR, JPM Midland: NK, AD? / TM? Minardi: CA?, R.Doornbos? Red Bull: DC, CK? / VL? Renault: FA, GF? Toyota: JT, RS Willams: MW, JB? / AP? / NH? Anyone care to clarify a few of the question marks? Not many new faces in there. |
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Renault: Alonso and Fisichella
McLaren: Raikkonen and Montoya Ferrari: Schumacher and Massa Toyota: R Schumacher and Trulli Williams: Button and Webber BAR: Barrichello and Sato BMW: Villeneuve and Heidfeld Red Bull: Coulthard and Liuzzi Midland: Davidson and Monteiro Minardi: Speed and Klien (if Red Bull takeover, else Albers and Doornbos) That's my prediction - those in bold have been announced by the teams. |
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I would have thought Albers is in the running for Midland, or so it says on F1Racing.net..
Button has been announced by Williams, but nothing is official. We still may see Button on the sidelines in 2006. I think Ant will be at BAR if Button doesn't stay. Sato will be hard pressed to keep his seat. Other than that, pretty much spot on. I hope if Red Bull buy Minardi they keep the Minardi name - something like Team Red Bull Minardi, or Minardi Gives You Wings would suffice. |
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Can't argue with that KB.
I'd put a big question mark over JV though. If I was starting a new company / team I wouldnt want the grumpy old bloke with fixed ideas (and notoriously fussy tastes) ruining the otherwise fresh faced atmos. But thats just me. If JV goes - Davidson probably stands a chance at BMW. Skam - despite my belief that BAR want to get rid of Sato, I can only really see him going if they retain JB - then Honda would have no choice but to let him go. In which case, who gets the second williams seat? etc. |
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Hmmmmmmmmmm, i think.....
Renault) Alonso - Kovalinen McLaren) Raikkonen - Monty Ferrari) M Schumacher - Masssa Toyota) Trulli - R Schumacher (Sato either 3rd driver or 2nd) Willams) Button - Webber BAR) Barrichello - Davidson BMW) Villeneuve - Heidfeld Red Bull) Coulthard - Liuzzi Midland) Carroll - Monterio Minardi) Albers - Doornbos |
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Sonic BMW may pay aroung 15M Ł if they want JV to go away. He has valid contract if Sauber until the end of 2006. It's not as simple as you think.
OMT. K-B it's Narain that is paying Jordan's bills (with 7M US$/year) so I pressume he will stay, not Tiago. |
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Renault: Alonso/Fisichella
McLaren: Raikkonen/Montoya Ferrari: Schumacher/Massa Toyota: R Schumacher/Trulli Williams: Webber/Pizzonia BAR: Button/Barrichello BMW: Villeneuve/Heidfeld Red Bull: Coulthard/Liuzzi Midland: Davidson/Monteiro Minardi: $$/$$ Button is the key man... Frank will get as much cash as he needs for cosworth engine development, so he will sell Button to Honda and Heidfeld to BMW. And will indeed have the last laugh. As a driver combo Mark is a hard worker and Pizzonia is a huge question mark. I still believe Antonio could do a good job given that he was blindly fast before joining Jaguar and up to speed after joining Williams again. He was hot favorite for the seat this season... but wasn't strong enough up against BMW+Webber lobby to give the drive to Nick. Let's see. The other possible scenario is that if Button goes to Williams, BMW might get Antonio as well and replace JV. All up to Antonio to perform this weekend and Sato prove himself to the Honda management team in the remaining races. |
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Ok here they are, due to very very secret, after-midnight paddock meetings:
RENAULT: Fernando Alonso - Alain Prost (and the ultimate question is who is gonna be the first driver..) Alain comes back to break the win record that Michael took from him at a home team... Beware!! McLAREN: Juan Pablo Montoya - Michael Schumacher (Contract signed in the most secret meeting of all, took place in all the tracks of the callendar) TOYOTA: Satoru Nakajima - Aguri Suzuki (they love tradition AND the japanese dream comes true!) FERRARI: Sebastian Stahl (the genetics played a major role, MS' step brother) - Giancarlo Fisichella (they have to please tiffosi sometime) WILLIAMS: Sam Michael - Patrick Head (They always believed that mechanics played the major role). BAR-HONDA: Jenson Button (They offered 90.000.000 Honda cars to Williams plus the whole factory) - Takuma Sato (why not? that will be a surprise. Moreover, he will drive for free, no money left) RED BULL RACING: They signed the whole GP2 grid plus another 18 to change both drivers for every race... They are something else!! BMW: Mark Webber - Nick Heidfeld (there you have it Frank, they told ya they'll leave nothing back and so they did!) MIDLAND F1 (PERIOD): Sergey Bubka - Andriy Shevchenko (if the doctor can do it why not these exceptional ex-soviet athletes?) MINARDI: Bill Gates - Lawrence Ellison (They will DEFINITELY pay for their seats, and their age is good) EVERYTHING IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. ENJOY F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2006... |
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My Prediction
Renault: F.Alonso and G.Fisichella
McLaren: Raikkonen and J.Montoya Ferrari: M.Schumacher and FMassa Toyota: R.Schumacher and J.Trulli Williams: J.Button and M.Webber BAR: R.Barrichello and T.Sato or A.Davidson BMW: J.Villeneuve and N.Heidfeld Red Bull: Coulthard and C.Klien or V.Liuzzi Midland: A.Davidson and T.Monteiro or C.Albers Minardi: $$$$$$ and $$$$$$ I hope Davidson is at Midland next year because if he stays at BAR then Sato will probably be out of F1. This will be my last year as a Button fan. I have been a huge fan since 2003. Next year I will be a R.Barrichello, (since 2006) T.Sato, (since 2004) A.Davidson, (since 2006) J.Villeneuve (since 2003) and a M.Webber fan. (since 2004) |
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Or... you could just say you are an Aussie fan (Webber), who supports BAR and all their drivers!!
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So what's the difference with Button?
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I didn't know there were swingers amongst f1 fan shifting alligeance for their favorite as the wind changes direction
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I think the term is ' jumping on the bandwagon' (bandwagon n. a popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon")
PS - Davidson has been a BAR DRIVER for how many years...? I'm sure a BAR "fan" would know this (not race driver, a test driver; granted). Also BAR started out as practically 'Team Villeneuve'. But each to their own I suppose. |
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So if you continued to support Villeneuve when he left BAR, why not Button?
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I reiterate:
"I think the term is ' jumping on the bandwagon' (bandwagon n. a popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon")" |
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Renault= Alonso, Fisichella
McLaren= Raikkonen, Montoya Ferrari= Schumi, Massa BAR= Barrichello, Button Toyota= Ralf, Trulli Williams= Webber, Rosberg BMW= Villeneuve, Heidfeld Red Bull Ferrari = Coulthard, Liuzzi Midland F1= Davidson, Monteiro Red Bull Minardi= Klien, Speed I would like to see Kovalainen in F1, but where? |
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