Hispania got €10m from red Bull for Riccardo last season (feels weird typing last season as the season is only been finished 22 hours) and Hispania were getting €1m a race if Karthekeyn qualified to race from TATA and the €1.5m they got from Hero motors for India.
Id recon that Red Bull will use the #2 Caterham seat for Riccardo next year, as if you release (http://www.teamlotus.co.uk/news/2011/ja ... s-contract) there is no mention of Trulli in a race seat.
Im reconing that if Caterham were offered a financial ammount simmilar (probably more) to what Hispania were offered from Red Bull they would take it. If they were offered €600K a race for instance, the €12m would come in really handy for the team.
I think that a Caterham-Renault partnership of Heikki and Daniel is what will in place for Australia.
As for Williams, if the problems that Maldanado is having with the PDVSA money continue and the Venuzuelan parlement decide to stop the "Unlawful" money going to williams, he is out. And if they dont get Sutil next year, id expect to see Senna in Maldanados seat with posibly Bottas or even Grosjean if Sutil goes to Lotus.
The Lotus and Williams dribver situation is all dependant on 3 drivers and 1 team. Sutil, Hulkenberg and Di Resta at Force India. But there could be a shoe in at Williams as Ferrari are looking at buying a seat for Bianchi as well.
Id recon that Hispania will not keep Liuzi now, they may and probably will be looking at D'Ambrosio or Van Der Garde, or a driver that can bring a decent ammount of cash to the team.
The driver market is still pretty open.
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