Honestly I doubt that Magnussen will stay in Renault. His two crashes caused by his driving mistakes took more attention than his good performance in the Russian GP this year.nevill3 wrote:Magnussen could be retained because of his experience which would be helpful in developing the new car next year.
- Really? Is that repeat of Buemi, some ancient history of team-mates in lower junior series from 5-6 ('17) years ignoring everything after that? I'm sure every F1 team principle will faint remembering that. Are we talking about the same Nasr that got his GP2 wins in meaningless reverse grid races (bad memory) and showed close to nothing in F1?edu2703 wrote:Honestly I doubt that Magnussen will stay in Renault. His two crashes caused by his driving mistakes took more attention than his good performance in the Russian GP this year.nevill3 wrote:Magnussen could be retained because of his experience which would be helpful in developing the new car next year.
Magnussen is impatient with Renault. He doesn't want a repeat of what happened in 2014 when McLaren decided that he would not be on the team in 2015 at the end of the year. So he didn't get a seat in other teams because there was no seats available.
If Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz Jr. refuse the proposal of Renault, Magnussen still have to fight for a seat with an old acquaintance: Felipe Nasr.
Felipe Nasr, besides having big sponsorship, has something in his favor: Your results in Jr. categories.
2011 British Formula Three: Kevin Magnussen was teammate of Felipe Nasr. In this year, Nasr dominated the series and won the championship 123 points ahead of the second placed Kevin Magnussen with the same car. This can be used to convince (not to prove) that Nasr is better than Magnussen.
what I heard from him was that Renault has an option for next year and until that expires there's no point in looking elsewhere. But he doesn't want to end up in the same situation as with McLaren, so if they can't makeiotar__ wrote:- Really? Is that repeat of Buemi, some ancient history of team-mates in lower junior series from 5-6 ('17) years ignoring everything after that? I'm sure every F1 team principle will faint remembering that. Are we talking about the same Nasr that got his GP2 wins in meaningless reverse grid races (bad memory) and showed close to nothing in F1?edu2703 wrote:Honestly I doubt that Magnussen will stay in Renault. His two crashes caused by his driving mistakes took more attention than his good performance in the Russian GP this year.nevill3 wrote:Magnussen could be retained because of his experience which would be helpful in developing the new car next year.
Magnussen is impatient with Renault. He doesn't want a repeat of what happened in 2014 when McLaren decided that he would not be on the team in 2015 at the end of the year. So he didn't get a seat in other teams because there was no seats available.
If Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz Jr. refuse the proposal of Renault, Magnussen still have to fight for a seat with an old acquaintance: Felipe Nasr.
Felipe Nasr, besides having big sponsorship, has something in his favor: Your results in Jr. categories.
2011 British Formula Three: Kevin Magnussen was teammate of Felipe Nasr. In this year, Nasr dominated the series and won the championship 123 points ahead of the second placed Kevin Magnussen with the same car. This can be used to convince (not to prove) that Nasr is better than Magnussen.
- What does "if Sainz refuses Reanult" mean? He has nothing do say, if RB extend his contract that's it. Except for Spanish sponsors he has no qualities to consider him for Renault. He just messed up another race, but he should not worry, those who make drivers decisions either don't watch, understand or don't care . Another season Toro Rosso losing WCC place because of drivers - lost in marketing noise of course.
- Magnussen can say he's impatient, it means nothing. What other options does he have, Sauber? In translated from Danish media interview (can't find the link and don't know if it's reliable) he claims that
A. he can't sign anywhere else until certain date, one sided extension option
B. driver delay is because of 'power struggle' between Abiteoul and Vasseur. Would be weird to me but whatever. It's chaos anyway.
Magnussen was at his first season while Nasr raced for the full 2010 season and funished fifth.edu2703 wrote:Honestly I doubt that Magnussen will stay in Renault. His two crashes caused by his driving mistakes took more attention than his good performance in the Russian GP this year.nevill3 wrote:Magnussen could be retained because of his experience which would be helpful in developing the new car next year.
Magnussen is impatient with Renault. He doesn't want a repeat of what happened in 2014 when McLaren decided that he would not be on the team in 2015 at the end of the year. So he didn't get a seat in other teams because there was no seats available.
If Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz Jr. refuse the proposal of Renault, Magnussen still have to fight for a seat with an old acquaintance: Felipe Nasr.
Felipe Nasr, besides having big sponsorship, has something in his favor: Your results in Jr. categories.
2011 British Formula Three: Kevin Magnussen was teammate of Felipe Nasr. In this year, Nasr dominated the series and won the championship 123 points ahead of the second placed Kevin Magnussen with the same car. This can be used to convince (not to prove) that Nasr is better than Magnussen.
I think the shift of (almost all) teams of development to 2017 makes a lot of drivers frustrated. We've seen that up and down the pit lane every last year of a formula. They know that they won't get any chance to make a step forward anymore.OneAlex wrote:I think Grosjean is realising his Ferrari dream is slipping as he seems to be becoming impatient with Haas... I can imagine him looking at the Renault seat and wishing he was back there as their French team leader.
Any chance of it happening (if not 2017, 2018)?
Did you watch the race? first of all, he made a great qualifying, second he was forced to stop because of the damages caused in the first lap incident and third, his engine lost power during a great part of the race. I dont see any reason to blame him, and once again he delivered when the car was ok(Saturday).iotar__ wrote:
- What does "if Sainz refuses Reanult" mean? He has nothing do say, if RB extend his contract that's it. Except for Spanish sponsors he has no qualities to consider him for Renault. He just messed up another race, but he should not worry, those who make drivers decisions either don't watch, understand or don't care . Another season Toro Rosso losing WCC place because of drivers - lost in marketing noise of course.
Please Nasr has 4 wins and 20 podium in GP2, for you how many were achieved helped by reverse grid rule? Nasr only start once in pole position in GP2.iotar__ wrote:- Really? Is that repeat of Buemi, some ancient history of team-mates in lower junior series from 5-6 ('17) years ignoring everything after that? I'm sure every F1 team principle will faint remembering that. Are we talking about the same Nasr that got his GP2 wins in meaningless reverse grid races (bad memory) and showed close to nothing in F1?edu2703 wrote:Honestly I doubt that Magnussen will stay in Renault. His two crashes caused by his driving mistakes took more attention than his good performance in the Russian GP this year.nevill3 wrote:Magnussen could be retained because of his experience which would be helpful in developing the new car next year.
Magnussen is impatient with Renault. He doesn't want a repeat of what happened in 2014 when McLaren decided that he would not be on the team in 2015 at the end of the year. So he didn't get a seat in other teams because there was no seats available.
If Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz Jr. refuse the proposal of Renault, Magnussen still have to fight for a seat with an old acquaintance: Felipe Nasr.
Felipe Nasr, besides having big sponsorship, has something in his favor: Your results in Jr. categories.
2011 British Formula Three: Kevin Magnussen was teammate of Felipe Nasr. In this year, Nasr dominated the series and won the championship 123 points ahead of the second placed Kevin Magnussen with the same car. This can be used to convince (not to prove) that Nasr is better than Magnussen.
Please do.edu2703 wrote: I can list a number of things that Nasr did in F1 what I consider ''excellent'', due to bad car he drives in 2015 and in 2016, starting with his debut race until his last race. If you want