I hope da Costa gets the drive, I think Sainz and Kvyat are too young/inexperienced. Autosport seems to think da Costa might be overlooked:
Also one of my favourite quotes ever, wonder if he's been taking lessons from Kimi: Lastly, Sirotkin finished 3rd! Really depressing to think that he's younger than me and he'll be driving an F1 car next year and I won't.
The more I read about this stuff about clean slates for Felix da Costa , the more I realise that Lewis Williamson was royally ****ed over by Red Bull.
da Costa needs another season to work on his consistency. He has shown himself to be quick but his position in the championship shows he has other issues he needs to sort if he wishes to get into F1 on merit.
Magnussen looks ready for F1. McLaren have a very good youth program, pisses all over Red Bull's IMO. I have no idea what they do but it's working very well! Magnussen > Vandoorne >>>>> Da Costa this season
Williamson was terrible. If he wasn't British no one would care. Stevens has just crashed and brought out the safety car. Magnussen leads from Vandoorne and Da Costa.
Great stint by Da Costa, but Magnussen was covering Vandoorne, Da Costa should win this easily with the other two fighting for the championship.
The manner in which he was dumped was always regarded as bemusing. To start with, he was thrown into a new team, and as such the teething problems experienced severely restricted the amount of testing they were able to do. Hell even his team-mate, Alexander Rossi, was told that the least he could do was help the team progress - the team was of course Arden Caterham, so Caterham had to have one of their young drivers in there. In his final weekend with the team, he qualified fourth in wet conditions at Spa, and subsequently ran with the leaders before a safety car came out just as he was due to make a pitstop. The team told him to stay out and skip the mandatory pitstop, so they would use the race as a test session effectively. He kept everyone behind and won the race on the road, and set the 2nd fastest lap of the race, but took a time penalty for skipping his pitstop. And of course after that, his fifth race with the team, he was gone. If that's not unfair, I don't know what is. And one look at the other drivers in this scheme suggests that a few others should have suffered the same fate as Williamson, judging by their results.
Two wins in a row for Da Costa. Magnussen won but was DSQ'd after his car failed scrutineering. Vandoorne just 18 points behind with three races left.
Race about to start: http://firstrownow.eu/watch/211036/1/watch-renault-world-series-:-le-mans,-france---race-2.html
