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26th January 2013, 03:11 #11
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What's the story on Innes Ireland?
Oh yeah Prost is a very good one!
Here's a few recent ones I'd forgotten all about:
NICK HEIDFELD, RENAULT 2011
Made a scapegoat. Heidfeld's qualifying was extremely disappointing it had to be said, but his race performances were quite good. While I agree with Eric Bouiller that Heidfeld's driving and attitude were sadly not up to the level hoped for, Bouiller only seemed to make things worse by his treatment of Nick. The move to replace him with Bruno Senna almost cost the team 5th in the WCC.
JAIME ALGUERSUARI, TORO ROSSO 2011
This one is even worse, and I'd probably include Sebastien Buemi as a footnote here too. Jaime claimed to have been offered a drive elsewhere but wanted to stay with Toro Rosso (but then surely if that were really true, he'd have taken it?). He was told he would be staying on for 2012, only for Dr Marko to change his mind after the season had ended and seats elsewhere had been filled. In hindsight, Toro Rosso would surely have been much better off retaining Jaime to benefit from his experience and continuity and to be a known quantity for Ricciardo to be measured against. Vergne proved that he might have been better served continuing in a junior formula for at least 1 more year.
CHRISTIAN KLIEN, RED BULL 2006
Another one involving Dr Marko. David Coulthard spoke out against this one as even he felt Christian wasn't really given a fair chance/enough time. Having been running ahead of DC in Monaco until late on (he finished 3rd remember), Christian was really only a couple of tenths of Coulthard's level which wasn't bad. But then again Kimi had established himself ahead of a younger DC by that stage of his career. Even so, it seemed a bit harsh indeed to not even let Christian see out the season, especially when his replacement was only Robert Doornbos.
HEIKKI KOVALAINEN, RENAULT 2007
Now this is one I would like to hear more about as I fail to understand how this went. I don't really see how Kovalainen had a disappointing season considering he beat his experienced team-mate pretty convincingly in only his 1st season. I know he struggled at the start, but surely that can be forgiven since Renault had produced a very horrible car, which was reasonably unexpected to be that bad. Though his season was certainly overshadowed by Lewis Hamilton's, I can only reason that Heikki must have been shown the door because Flav and Alonso felt that competition from him would be too much to bear after 2007. 'Fernie' wanted it easy with Piquet while he tended to his wounds...SPAM - Going off topic to give you the deals you don't want.
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26th January 2013, 07:14 #12
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Originally Posted by rjbetty
Kovalainen was asked to find sponsors by the team to keep his drive in 2013. He declined. I can understand his apprehension, because once he gets sponsors, he's always going to need them to stay in the sport. And on a certain level, it's an admission that you're not the greatest driver on the grid - especially when you have already been in the sport for six years. But looking at his results, I don't think Kovalainen really deserves a seat based on merit alone. He'd need to find some sponsors to make up the difference. He wouldn't need as much sponsorship as, say Bruno Senna (who has no business being in Formula 1), but he would need some. Since he refused, can anyont blame the team for dropping him?
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It's worth mentioning that Lopez borrowed money from SNORAS - one of the two banks controlled by Vladimir Antonov. Anotnov held the promoter's rights to the World Rally Championship through Convers Sports Initiative, and it was his arrest for charges of fraud that set the dominos falling and threw the entire WRC into disarray at the start of last year.
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But then Briatore lost Alonso to McLaren, and he needed a new star driver. With Hamilton being scooped up by McLaren, Briatore was desperate to find someone who could carry the team. Kovalainen's results in the feeder series suggested that he would be strong enough, but Briatore threw him in the deep end, expecting him to pick up where Alonso left off. And when he didn't deliver, he got sacked.
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26th January 2013, 14:53 #13
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rjbetty, Tom Walkinshaw's reign at Arrows wasn't pretty: F1 Rejects - Risky Business: The TWR Arrows Years 1996-2002
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26th January 2013, 16:51 #14
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26th January 2013, 17:04 #15
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Yes that's the conventional story. But the fact is that Hill did very well in 1996. And despite what happened in 1995 he deserved to defend his championship.
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26th January 2013, 19:02 #16
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Could it be that Frank Williams finally decided that it maybe wasn't a good idea to have two No 1 drivers as they wasted so many opportunities competing against each other (Jones/Reutemann, Mansell/Piquet) and the team would do better with a clear cut No 1 and No 2. Villeneuve was proving as quick as Hill. He was 11 years younger. And he wanted less money!
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26th January 2013, 21:59 #17
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HHF was signed on a pre-contract so whatever clauses there were DH was re-negotiating in the summer after Autosport famously broke the story at 1996 German GP.
In the end it came down to money because Hill was on contracted similarly as a number two driver as he was number two to Prost and Senna.The world according to Taki Inoue: https://mobile.twitter.com/takiinoue/st ... 7249326080
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26th January 2013, 23:24 #18
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27th January 2013, 01:39 #19
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28th January 2013, 19:49 #20
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Originally Posted by BDunnell
Chapman can hardly be faulted for hitching Team Lotus to Clark's obvious talent, but he was less than straightforward in letting Ireland know.
One reason sometimes given is that Chapman simply objected to portions of Ireland's personality, but no doubt other factors were involved. With Clark and Trevor Taylor, Lotus obviously had a no 1 and backup combination, also cheaper than a Clark, Ireland duo.
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