Adrian Sutil has secured a deal with Sauber to ensure himself a race seat for 2014. He will effectively make the inverse move of Nico Hulkenberg who joined Force India following his departure at Sauber.
I'm just going by history. At both McLaren and Brawn, he had periods in which he fell woefully behind his teammate, only to copy his teammate's setup and suddenly be back up to speed. Barrichello in particular made a huge fuss over it. Both times, Button said that they had gone up a blind alley with a setup which they were completely convinced was the right way to go. Perhaps it could be coincidence, and both teams were to blame, but really the only common factor in each case was Button.marcush. wrote:setup blind alleys.
I´d rather think the team is responsible for keeping the car inside the correct setup windows.In todays world of aerodriven setup windows I tend to believe a driver has very very limited influence on the actual setup decisions apart from minor random i like and I´d prefer..
What you imply is -Button would try or be able to make his prefered setups look better as they really are with the effect of actually putting obstacles into the way of the team finding the correct setup .
But this really is in stark contrast to Buttons legendary inability to drive around a cars behaviour not to his liking.
Lotus new clueless co-owner is turning out to be non-existent co-owner (deadline for Quantum deal), his only contribution so far was to talk publicly about Raikkonen and Hulkenberg, people bought it right away because they liked it. Complex team's situation and implications of hiring drivers, who cares. It can still change of course.Kiril Varbanov wrote:Hulk: "If you believe the rumors, Maldonado is at Lotus."
https://twitter.com/f1enigma/status/401262488924454913
.That's odd! Perez says he delivered a signed contract to McLaren, and that THEY declined it!Kiril Varbanov wrote:Hulk: "If you believe the rumors, Maldonado is at Lotus."
https://twitter.com/f1enigma/status/401262488924454913
What's odd about that? It takes two to tangogilgen wrote:That's odd! Perez says he delivered a signed contract to McLaren, and that THEY declined it!Kiril Varbanov wrote:Hulk: "If you believe the rumors, Maldonado is at Lotus."
https://twitter.com/f1enigma/status/401262488924454913
raymondu999 wrote:What's odd about that? It takes two to tangogilgen wrote:That's odd! Perez says he delivered a signed contract to McLaren, and that THEY declined it!Kiril Varbanov wrote:Hulk: "If you believe the rumors, Maldonado is at Lotus."
https://twitter.com/f1enigma/status/401262488924454913
Of course, Ramirez is a McLaren man, but I think he's being honest here. After all, he foreshadowed this back in December..."McLaren needed a better driver than Jenson Button, they didn't need an equal, but Checo wasn't up to the challenge, except on a few occasions," explained Ramírez. "Leaving aside his driver skills, there are other aspects to being a Formula 1 driver. Sergio is an intelligent person and he will know why he lost his seat with McLaren.
"Sergio will probably be uncomfortable reading this, because sometimes the truth is not nice. He had a golden opportunity, one that only comes once in a lifetime. His problem was never integrating with the team. The syndrome of becoming an F1 driver went to his head very fast. He always complained about the British press, but they were the same press that wrote: ''Checo', a good driver, but why is he so arrogant?'
"'Checo' grew a lot as a driver during the last three years in F1, but unfortunately he didn't grow as a person at the same rate. Today the drivers are arriving in F1 at a very young age without knowing how to behave. In most cases they have a manager that coaches them. Sergio tried to do it alone and failed."
"I'm certain that we will see him driving in F1 next year, but I doubt that he will drive for a big team again, and by saying this, I hope with all my soul that 'Checo' makes me eat my words," Ramírez went on to state. "But he will need to focus very much on his profession, wanting to do it with passion and without any pretension of money."
Livio Oriccio is equally harsh, but the translation is a bit difficult...“I think Sergio has done all the steps in the correct way, been very focused and he’s been good and very tough, but in the last two years he has developed himself much more as a driver than as a person.
“He’s still a child, very young. As a driver he’s full of confidence, when he talks with his engineers he really very much knows what he wants to do on the car and he doesn’t let himself be convinced otherwise.
“Where he has to learn a lot, especially going to a team like McLaren…he doesn’t much like the press, he doesn’t talk too much to the press. The minute he sees a press guy, he runs…so that he’s got to learn. In a team like McLaren he has to be good to the press.”
“You saw how Michael Schumacher applied himself, like Ayrton Senna did; like Fernando Alonso. They are there 10/10ths all the time. If you don’t do it, the next guy is going to do it. To be successful, you’ve got to do it.”
