The Sauber F1 Team is pleased to announce that Pascal Wehrlein will complete the team’s driver line-up for the 2017 Formula One World Championship. He will race alongside Swede Marcus Ericsson who continues with the Swiss team.
This rumour has been rubbished repeatedly in the media for the last week. For example:Racer X wrote:The rumors with Force India are that Telmex might buy them. So we might see Force India Change ownership to Escuderia Telmex.
This is interesting because when Ricciardo was at Toro Rosso I didnt think that he was that good. But then he was moved to RB and now we all praise him. Sometimes its pretty hard to know if a driver is really good or not.edu2703 wrote:I'm not a fan of Felipe Nasr, but honestly, I think he is underrated. I saw him driving very well in GP2 and if you look at his career on Jr categories, you can see Nasr isn't just a man with cash. Despite Sauber be the worst car of the grid, he still managed to do some "small miracles" this year as your overtake over Valteri Bottas in the British GP, P12 in Baku, P1 for a moment in wet Hungarian Q1 (Finished P9 in Q1). I think he deserves a seat in a better team to seeing your real potential, what we can not see with him driving a shitbox.
I like to use Alonso as an example. What Alonso did of special when he debut in F1 by Minardi? Nothing. Their results were a little better than the results of his teammate Tarso Marques, which is clearly a bad driver. If I said in 2001 that he could become one of the best F1 drivers, people would laugh at me.
Of course I'm not trying to compare Nasr with Alonso. I'm showing that you should not use driver results to measure his talent without taking into account the performance of the car that he drives.
Mark was pretty irregular but 2010 and 2012 were good years and he achieved some good victories. He could have won in 2010 but he ruined his chances with his own errors in the last races.NL_Fer wrote:I remember one driver who was fenomenal at Minardi, but pretty average at Redbull. Our number two, Mark Webber.
But i really have no idea about Nasr. He was great in 2015, but now struggles witg Ericsson. The guys whi got beaten by a one time show of Lotterer.
Only 24/48 hours and we will know the thruth.wickedz50 wrote:Perez wants a competitive car to show his talent. FI and Williams are the same boat. He is likely to push for the 2nd seat in Ferrari next year when Kimi retires. 2017 will be good in FI for him. Now Williams will pull off something extraordinary to replace Massa for 2017. Likely choice will be Wehrlein in lieu of some technical knowhow from Toto and a more powerful PU than the rest of the customer teams.
Perez has talent and I appreciate if he gets a competitive car to show off his brilliance.
They know what they want. And what they want is the best for the team in the long term.iotar__ wrote:Williams' rumoured and confirmed candidates are baffling. So they get rid of Massa probably for telling like it is about safety/Bianchi and what are their rumoured and confirmed choices to replace him? As random as it gets bunch:
- 37 year old Button, the choice that only would make sense with younger talent as the second driver, with Bottas it's pointless
- billionaire's teenage son, I still hope it's a joke not a candidate and they're just buying media attention - made up F1 interest, another "highly rated" by no one in particular
- Nasr who has not done anything to deserve a better car and Williams seat except for being Brazilian and looking good on posters for sponsors. Fairly competent and decent racer but why fire Massa to have him?
Nothing in common except $$$, now let me tell you about evil pay driver crashtor Maldonado... (with GP2 and F1 achievements against various competition, speed, race pace and significant costs included ofc).
