2010 Driver Market

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 05 Feb 2010, 13:51

OK, my point has been obliterated, I reckon.

watka · Post by **watka** » 06 Feb 2010, 14:16

fjackdaw wrote:
Waris wrote:
Phoenix wrote:I think Sato, Davidson and Klien are already part of past F1 history.

That's what I thought about de la Rosa, too.

And Michael Schumacher. And, if rumours are to believed, Ralf Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve. And certainly Luca Badoer. And Vinantonio Liuzzi. And Alex Wurz, prior to his recent comeback. Ditto, further back, Tarso Marques.

In short, never say never.

Yeah, Jan Lammers might make a comeback.

danardif1 · Post by **danardif1** » 06 Feb 2010, 14:24

Watka wrote:
Yeah, Jan Lammers might make a comeback.

What about Nigel Mansell... Bruno Senna used LMS last year to keep up to speed for F1... is Our Nige planning a comeback to take the Red 5 off that pesky Seb Vettel!?!

Post by **mario** » 06 Feb 2010, 14:41

danardif1 wrote:
Watka wrote:
Yeah, Jan Lammers might make a comeback.

What about Nigel Mansell... Bruno Senna used LMS last year to keep up to speed for F1... is Our Nige planning a comeback to take the Red 5 off that pesky Seb Vettel!?!

It looks like Mansell has set his sights on another prize instead - he is entering the Le Mans 24 hours this year, in a Ginetta-Zytek LMP1 car, alongside his two sons.

fjackdaw wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Heidfeld would have fit awesomely in Lotus or Virgin-new teams that look promising and would need a safe yet respectably fast pair of hands with nine years worth of experience. They should have put Heidfeld in Lotus instead of Trulli, for example.

I personally prefer Trulli to Heidfeld, but I do agree that Nick was probably more deserving of the seat and has more to offer F1 generally (he also doesn't throw temper tantrums, that we know of). But I'd rather have seen Sato, Davidson or Klien than either of them.

Even though Trulli can put in some very tidy drives, and get some decent results (such as at Suzuka this year), I do think that Heidfeld would have been a more consistant, and ultimately better, driver over the course of a year. He does seem to be the forgotten man of F1 in many ways - he outdrive Kubica comprehensively in 2007 and 2009, and yet it is Kubica who is seen as a potential future star.
As for those mentioned above, Sato has had a few goes at getting back into F1, but the problem is that the longer it is, the lower his chances, and by now realistically he has probably had his best chances to get back into the sport. Klien seems to have dropped off the map within F1 circles, relatively speaking, whilst Davidson may be content to drive the Aston-Lola prototypes instead (after all, he was in one of the teams last year, and did reasonably well).

danardif1 · Post by **danardif1** » 06 Feb 2010, 14:55

Isn't Anthony Davidson being looked at by Audi for DTM? Could be a sportscar tie-in there as well... And David Coulthard is also evaluating a now-common move to DTM for retired F1-drivers (Alesi, Hakkinen)...

It does seem that a lot of very talented British drivers have ended up mired in German Touring Cars... Jamie Green, Gary Paffett, Paul Di Resta... Davidson would fit right in there...

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 06 Feb 2010, 15:36

danardif1 wrote:Isn't Anthony Davidson being looked at by Audi for DTM? Could be a sportscar tie-in there as well... And David Coulthard is also evaluating a now-common move to DTM for retired F1-drivers (Alesi, Hakkinen)...

It does seem that a lot of very talented British drivers have ended up mired in German Touring Cars... Jamie Green, Gary Paffett, Paul Di Resta... Davidson would fit right in there...

As if Audi wasn't bland enough yet.

Whole Spanish Press · Post by **Whole Spanish Press** » 06 Feb 2010, 18:47

elho wrote:Whole Spanish Press are now stating that Adrian Valles signed for the second USF1 seat

We have discussed the matter, and even if it is not confirmed (yadah, yadah, yadah), we estimate we can make the following statement:

WE ARE ON FIRE, BABY!!!! WE ARE ON BURNING, MELTING, FLAMING FIRE!!!!!! YEAH!!!

WeirdKerr · Post by **WeirdKerr** » 06 Feb 2010, 19:08

Whole Spanish Press wrote:
elho wrote:Whole Spanish Press are now stating that Adrian Valles signed for the second USF1 seat

We have discussed the matter, and even if it is not confirmed (yadah, yadah, yadah), we estimate we can make the following statement:

WE ARE ON FIRE, BABY!!!! WE ARE ON BURNING, MELTING, FLAMING FIRE!!!!!! YEAH!!!

keep yourself away from the repsol......

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 06 Feb 2010, 21:06

Whole Spanish Press wrote:
elho wrote:Whole Spanish Press are now stating that Adrian Valles signed for the second USF1 seat

We have discussed the matter, and even if it is not confirmed (yadah, yadah, yadah), we estimate we can make the following statement:

WE ARE ON FIRE, BABY!!!! WE ARE ON BURNING, MELTING, FLAMING FIRE!!!!!! YEAH!!!

Somebody dial 9-1-1, Spaniard fire burning on the message boards, WHOA-OH!

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 07 Feb 2010, 00:25

WeirdKerr wrote:
Whole Spanish Press wrote:
elho wrote:Whole Spanish Press are now stating that Adrian Valles signed for the second USF1 seat

We have discussed the matter, and even if it is not confirmed (yadah, yadah, yadah), we estimate we can make the following statement:

WE ARE ON FIRE, BABY!!!! WE ARE ON BURNING, MELTING, FLAMING FIRE!!!!!! YEAH!!!

keep yourself away from the repsol......

Campsa fits better-it was the first national oil manufacturer.

watka · Post by **watka** » 17 Feb 2010, 23:12

So.............................can I have the second Campos seat?

Valrys · Post by **Valrys** » 18 Feb 2010, 00:06

watka wrote:So.............................can I have the second Campos seat?

Have you been a good boy?

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 18 Feb 2010, 00:18

Valrys wrote:
watka wrote:So.............................can I have the second Campos seat?

Have you been a good boy?

Because if you have, we won't put you through that misery,

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 18 Feb 2010, 01:05

Okay, given the latest Campos-USF1-Stefan movements

McLaren-Mercedes - 1/Jenson BUTTON, 2/Lewis HAMLTON
Mercedes GP - 3/Michael SCHUMACHER, 4/Nico ROSBERG
Red Bull-Renault - 5/Sebastian VETTEL, 6/Mark WEBBER
Scuderia Ferrari - 7/Felipe MASSA, 8/Fernando ALONSO
WilliamsF1-Cosworth - 9/Rubens BARRICHELLO, 10/Nico HULKENBERG
Renault - 11/Robert KUBICA, 12/Vitaly PETROV
Force India-Mercedes - 14/Adrian SUTIL, 15/Vitantonio LIUZZI
Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari - 16/Sebastien BUEMI, 17/Jaime ALGUERSUARI
Lotus F1 Racing-Cosworth - 18/Jarno TRULLI, 19/Heikki KOVALAINEN
Sauber F1-Ferrari - 20/Pedro DE LA ROSA, 21/Kamui KOBAYASHI
Virgin Racing-Cosworth - 22/Timo GLOCK, 23/Lucas DI GRASSI
Epsilon Euskadi-Bugatti* - 24/Bruno SENNA, 25/ Andy SOUCEK
United States Lola-Cosworth** - 26/Jose Maria LOPEZ, 27/Adrian VALLES
Stefan GP-Stefanovic*** - 28/Kazuki NAKAJIMA, 29/Karun CHANDHOK

*Volkswagen-backed Colin Kolles purchases Campos and goes to Epsilon Euskadi and form VW-Epsilon partnership; Volkswagen re-badge Cosworth engine as a Bugatti
**USF1 are unable to finish chassis, and so acquire Lola's completed prototype and the team is renamed to reflect Lola partnership after Lola demand it; USF1 have no choice since Lola is all that keeps them in the game.
***Stefan enter Toyota TF110 as the S-01, rebadge Toyota engine as a Stefanovic as per Toyota's request

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 18 Feb 2010, 09:43

Captain Hammer wrote:Okay, given the latest Campos-USF1-Stefan movements

McLaren-Mercedes - 1/Jenson BUTTON, 2/Lewis HAMLTON
Mercedes GP - 3/Michael SCHUMACHER, 4/Nico ROSBERG
Red Bull-Renault - 5/Sebastian VETTEL, 6/Mark WEBBER
Scuderia Ferrari - 7/Felipe MASSA, 8/Fernando ALONSO
WilliamsF1-Cosworth - 9/Rubens BARRICHELLO, 10/Nico HULKENBERG
Renault - 11/Robert KUBICA, 12/Vitaly PETROV
Force India-Mercedes - 14/Adrian SUTIL, 15/Vitantonio LIUZZI
Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari - 16/Sebastien BUEMI, 17/Jaime ALGUERSUARI
Lotus F1 Racing-Cosworth - 18/Jarno TRULLI, 19/Heikki KOVALAINEN
Sauber F1-Ferrari - 20/Pedro DE LA ROSA, 21/Kamui KOBAYASHI
Virgin Racing-Cosworth - 22/Timo GLOCK, 23/Lucas DI GRASSI
Epsilon Euskadi-Bugatti* - 24/Bruno SENNA, 25/ Andy SOUCEK
United States Lola-Cosworth** - 26/Jose Maria LOPEZ, 27/Adrian VALLES
Stefan GP-Stefanovic*** - 28/Kazuki NAKAJIMA, 29/Karun CHANDHOK

So, everyone plus Stefan would be allowed in? Man, I'd love that!

Post by **Nuppiz** » 23 Feb 2010, 08:16

Admins, please ban that account already! I know that our user moderators can't.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 23 Feb 2010, 08:48

Nuppiz wrote:Admins, please ban that account already! I know that our user moderators can't.

Which brings me to my own sticking point with the job. I feel like I get all of the fun little weapons except the projectiles. Where's the fun without projectiles?

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 23 Feb 2010, 10:12

thehemogoblin wrote:
Nuppiz wrote:Admins, please ban that account already! I know that our user moderators can't.

Which brings me to my own sticking point with the job. I feel like I get all of the fun little weapons except the projectiles. Where's the fun without projectiles?

If all else fails a rocket launcher works just as fine :lol:

General rule of thumb I use on COD: MW1 and MW2*
*I don't actually play MW2 but I do have a copy of it which my brother almost constantly uses

How this discussion came from where each driver is going to COD I will never know :lol:

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 23 Feb 2010, 19:58

Soucek gets a drive. Well, 'drive' used in the most figurative way possible.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 23 Feb 2010, 20:00

shinji wrote:Soucek gets a drive. Well, 'drive' used in the most figurative way possible.

Who wants to set the odds on Soucek suing Virgin at some point for not putting out a race drive for him?

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 23 Feb 2010, 20:09

thehemogoblin wrote:
shinji wrote:Soucek gets a drive. Well, 'drive' used in the most figurative way possible.

Who wants to set the odds on Soucek suing Virgin at some point for not putting out a race drive for him?

Odds? 4:1 he sues.

Judging by how lawsuit-happy he is I wonder if he really is American?

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 24 Feb 2010, 14:00

thehemogoblin wrote:Who wants to set the odds on Soucek suing the Virgin at some point for not putting out a race drive for him?

Now the pun is complete.

ibukowinski25 · Post by **ibukowinski25** » 25 Feb 2010, 12:29

fjackdaw wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Heidfeld would have fit awesomely in Lotus or Virgin-new teams that look promising and would need a safe yet respectably fast pair of hands with nine years worth of experience. They should have put Heidfeld in Lotus instead of Trulli, for example.

Yeah but he is missing something.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 25 Feb 2010, 14:07

What is going missing?

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 25 Feb 2010, 20:57

Phoenix wrote:What is going missing?

Shoe spam is going missing, I guess.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 25 Feb 2010, 21:20

Waris wrote:
Phoenix wrote:What is going missing?

Shoe spam is going missing, I guess.

Shoe spam is already outdated. Now we're on zoophilic dates...

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 25 Feb 2010, 21:37

ibukowinski25 wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Heidfeld would have fit awesomely in Lotus or Virgin-new teams that look promising and would need a safe yet respectably fast pair of hands with nine years worth of experience. They should have put Heidfeld in Lotus instead of Trulli, for example.

Yeah but he is missing something.

This is mysterious.

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 25 Feb 2010, 21:46

Phoenix wrote:
Waris wrote:
Phoenix wrote:What is going missing?

Shoe spam is going missing, I guess.

Shoe spam is already outdated. Now we're on zoophilic dates...

I beg your pardon?

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 25 Feb 2010, 21:47

Waris wrote:
Phoenix wrote:
Waris wrote:Shoe spam is going missing, I guess.

Shoe spam is already outdated. Now we're on zoophilic dates...

I beg your pardon?

Serious, you don't want to know.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 25 Feb 2010, 21:49

Waris wrote:I beg your pardon?

Please tell me you haven't been offended by this...

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 25 Feb 2010, 21:53

Phoenix wrote:
Waris wrote:I beg your pardon?

Please tell me you haven't been offended by this...

I haven't, but I meant, I didn't see whatever spam you were referring to (probably because it's been deleted -_-).

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 25 Feb 2010, 21:57

Waris wrote:
Phoenix wrote:
Waris wrote:I beg your pardon?

Please tell me you haven't been offended by this...

I haven't, but I meant, I didn't see whatever spam you were referring to (probably because it's been deleted -_-).

Some idiot offering us the opportunity to have dates with horses. Uncool...

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 25 Feb 2010, 21:58

Waris wrote:
Phoenix wrote:
Waris wrote:I beg your pardon?

Please tell me you haven't been offended by this...

I haven't, but I meant, I didn't see whatever spam you were referring to (probably because it's been deleted -_-).

It's not spam, it was Phoenix himself who mentioned an unhappy episode...

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 25 Feb 2010, 22:00

CarlosFerreira wrote:It's not spam, it was Phoenix himself who mentioned an unhappy episode...

It was spam indeed. Then I mentioned that guy who...well, never mind.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 25 Feb 2010, 22:03

CarlosFerreira wrote:
Waris wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Shoe spam is already outdated. Now we're on zoophilic dates...

I beg your pardon?

Serious, you don't want to know.

Someone was feeling a little horse earlier today.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 25 Feb 2010, 22:04

Phoenix wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:It's not spam, it was Phoenix himself who mentioned an unhappy episode...

It was spam indeed. Then I mentioned that guy who...well, never mind.

You shouldn't have brought up Mr. Hands, dude. That was wrong.

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 25 Feb 2010, 22:05

I don't like where this thread is going. -__-'

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 25 Feb 2010, 22:07

Waris wrote:I don't like where this thread is going. -__-'

Don't worry, it already went there and we've gone as far as we're going.

Ross Prawn · Post by **Ross Prawn** » 26 Feb 2010, 01:18

Was the horse prancing ?

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 26 Feb 2010, 02:05

Ross Prawn wrote:Was the horse prancing ?

I hate increasing my post count this way, but I lol'd hard.