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Spyker test drivers

Formula One
by bogaTYR (U9292996) 20 October 2007
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Its an impressive list: www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19805...

looks like sutil will go to williams at the moment. timo glock seems to be in at toyota. also, it seems the Massa deal at ferrari is not as watertight as one would think. plus, franck montagny will leave toyota too!

its getting interesting. think it will take 2 weeks for the dust to settle.

any thoughts anyone?

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posted Oct 25, 2007

I would expecxt Fernando Alonso to join Force India with Narayan Karthikeyan who was with Jordan team in the last season.

Force India Boss Vijay Mallya should look forward to get double world champion in his team since he is not happy with McLaren. Give the oppurtunity to Young Indian drivers to enter into the world of racing

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posted Oct 26, 2007

Force India will not get Fernando Alonso...
1. Alonso will have no chance of winning the championship with their car.
2. Force India probably have better places to spend 20-40 million at the moment.

And who said two teams lead the pack. Renault won the season in 2006. The other teams are not far behind.

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posted Oct 26, 2007

Alonso to Force ? don't be idiotic.

My Teams for next year

McLaren - Hamilton & Alonso/Kovelainnen: Alonso can only go to Renault or stay at McLaren, nowhere else would he get a half-decent car. A swap between the two teams miht be on the cards.

Ferrari - Raikkonen & Massa: Despite rumours about non-watertight deal for Massa there is no way that Ferarri will drop him, Alonso and Kimi would be worse partners than Alonso and Hamilton.

BMW - Heidfeld & Kubica: Obviously no change, both did well.

Renault - Alonso/Kovelainnen & Piquet Jr: FA/HK already mentioned. Piquet deserves a chance instead of the 'never going to get any better' Fissi.

Williams - Rosberg & Vettel/Klien/Nakajima: Vettel would be a great signing, if not then I think that Klien deserves one more chance in F1

Red Bull - Coulthard & Webber:

Toyota - Glock & Trulli: Rumours are Trulli might be gone as well as Schumi Jr. but I would keep him if I was Toyota, he regularly outperforms the car. Glock deserves a chance after impressing in other series for years.

Torro Rosso - Bourdais & Vettel/Jani : Vettel will likely get the drive, unless tempted away to Williams, if so then Neel Jani could get the bump up from IRL along with Bourdais.

Honda - Button & Barrichello: Frankly Honda are lucky to keep two decent drivers following their cockup this year.

Super Aguri - Sato & Davidson: Japanese driver, check, Honda driver, check.

Force India - Sutil & Karthikayen: Sutil has been told he is staying, surely they will put an Indian in there.


Schumacher: Time to call it a day mate, you had a chance to become a good driver but you gave up on it all and the fire got lost somewhere.

Fissichella: Another who should ride off into the sunset, or at least down the grid and make room for the younger guns.

Wurz: Already gone.

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posted Oct 27, 2007

chap fernando to force india impossible!!!
we need experienced driver for car development,i agree.fernando is not possible.even in dreams mallya would have not thought about alonso joining his team.

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posted Oct 30, 2007

Think about uplifting the lowest in the worl of motorsport. Alonso has the ability to liftup Force India if he joins the team.

Nothing is impossibe to Vijay Mallya until he decides. Now he has purschased the whole spyker team and its not difficult for him to get Alonso in his team until he decides

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posted Oct 30, 2007

SaffronEmperor : You are presuming that Alonso would actually WANT to drive the Force India/Spyker car.

I agree Alonso WOULD be able to pull it up the grid, but he'd have to think it had at least half a chance of winning some races first.

Sadly, at the moment, it does not.

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posted Oct 31, 2007

F1_geezer : I am not telling on behalf of Alonso that he will persume to drive for Force India and once you think if it happens. Nothing is constant in this world.

In your opinion who would be best driver the Vijay Mallya takes into Force India?

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posted Oct 31, 2007

F1_geezer : I am not telling that Alonso will persume to drive for Forcr India and Think if it happens. Nothing is constant in this world.

In your opinion who would be best driver the Vijay Mallya takes into Force India?

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posted Nov 3, 2007

From an impeccable source. Faces seen at Force India factory this week:

Schumacher
Luzzi
Hiedfeld

Same source believes Schumy is in pole for the drive. Remember where you read it first.

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