I wonder if Red Bull would loan him out to keep his championship alive. Sauber would definitely take him given how crap their drivers are, and he could definitely score handy points there and keep himself in the hunt. The RB10's clearly a very well designed car aerodynamically and will be handy once all the issues are sorted out, but if it's going to be midseason before the engine's sorted out they may as well not run and save their engine quota for the second half of the season.
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Too right. Only ever had one. A Peugeot 306 HDI. Nice ride, good engine, but electrics were shot, kept going into safe mode and as for the rain sensitive wipers, who the hell thought French electronics and water go together?
If Red Bull intend to keep him after this year they would be smart to not make it harder for him to win the world title again. Sauber could use the money because Esteban and Sutil would hardly bring the money or performance the degree Vettel could for that short time. And I'm sure the smart Peter Sauber would enjoy to see a fully paid Red Bull logo on the side of that car just to fully back 1 driver for a few races. Vettel can just spend his RB time in the simulator until that 'plucking' engine is 'plucking' sorted!
Could Mercedes or Ferrari put pressure on any of their teams not to take Vettel, if it was a serious option?
So Magnussen/Hamilton and Massa are going to fight for the title? Seems legit... Wheres my crystal meth?
But at the same time, Vettel will probably be negotiating with both those teams and McLaren about a drive for 2015; I doubt they'd want to piss him off.
I highly doubt those 2 would have any form of control on which drivers the lower teams can pick, the FIA would surely never allow that kind of manipulation. + Agree with AG above, all 3 are trying to sign him for the future at some point, the last thing they need to do is REALLY! piss him off if he was vetoed away from a temporary drive with a team that they supply engines to. If anything it's one way to get into his good books if they want to sign him for the future. ++ If Seb is desperate enough they can get first refusal for his next contract as a deal! +++ If Red Bull can't give Seb a drive at the start of the season I'm very sure the contract becomes entirely void after that as Red Bull would have failed to fulfil their obligations to actually race in F1 which is driver contract 101.
WOW Renault are completely ****ed! Just to take some quotes from that link: This is a nightmare scenario for Renault - and that's just what they're saying in public. This is what TJ13 is saying:
They must be hiding it in fear because Lotus would lose this Sony deal to McLaren and that Caterham are possibly leaving next year if things don't improve for them.
Teds notebook day 4 is up: http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/9144657/1st-test-jerez-day-4-ted's-notebook
