Four races left...Ferrari looking for answers.
Reports are saying Alex Albon for Torro Rosso.Kinda expected Wehrlein to take a Torro Rosso seat.
Good for Hartley I guess. He's been better lately.
Though I suppose this doesn't confirm he's in.
Reports are saying Alex Albon for Torro Rosso.
Perez confirmed at RPFI. No surprises.
Anybody else think Stroll and Ocon could just end up staying in their respective seats? That way, Stroll (Lawrence) doesn't end up having to pay whatever termination penalty (for Lance) and still receive a compensation of sorts (for Ocon). Williams at least look like a decent work environment (AKA, it's not McLaren), so it's not like Mercedes and Lawrence would absolutely not want to see Ocon/Stroll there (but, presumably, they'd rather see both of them with RFPI, which won't happen), and I yet have to see a report that Russell is specifically replacing Stroll with Williams.
If I was a veteran F1 driver, I'd probably dread being paired with Stroll. I mean... Perez just cannot win. Everyone expects him to throughly annihilate Stoll...
I can't see Ocon and Perez staying on the same team together to be honest
I think if the case of Stroll staying at Williams and Ocon staying at FI would only have legitimacy if they had announced something so far. The longer it goes the more set it stone it becomes.
And I don't think Daddy Stroll bought an F1 team just for fun.
Yeah, they just finalized some of their financials with the change in ownership last week.There's probably a technical contractual thing that's preventing RPF1 from announcing the contract with Stroll, I wouldn't look too much into it.
Things have cooled down a lot since Spa last season.I can't see Ocon and Perez staying on the same team together to be honest
Things have cooled down a lot since Spa last season.
I think it was more because of what happened last season, it just took one incident to make that decision. They wanted to prevent it from getting into that point again. The comments by Ocon and Perez differ a lot too. After being taken out by Perez in Singapore Ocon just said he didn't want to comment on it before seeing a replay while last season he was saying that Perez is trying to kill him.Cooled down...sure...but just a month ago Force India had to state that these two guys aren't allowed to race each other anymore...
It might not be a "hey these guys are going to kill each other" situation anymore...but it's still an issue.