The Official F1 2019 silly season *contains speculation*

[HustleRussell]

As if Red Bull are going to give Ricciardo any opportunity to learn about the Honda PU.

[Pericoloso]

Vaud said:

Pericoloso said:

As Monza has started,who is Dan Ric driving for ?

RB. Any rumours were just daft as the drivers names were submitted yesterday, IIRC. Plus the lack of seat fitting, etc. Next race, who knows? But I doubt it.

Thanks.
As you say...daft.

[hairyben]

Vaud said:

Pericoloso said:

As Monza has started,who is Dan Ric driving for ?

RB. Any rumours were just daft as the drivers names were submitted yesterday, IIRC. Plus the lack of seat fitting, etc. Next race, who knows? But I doubt it.

I'd be surprised if there was any truth in those rumors - Danny is a popular driver and RB would cop a lot of st for it.

[The Moose]

Stroll to Stroll F1
Gasly to Red Bull
Danny Ric to Williams
Ocon to TR

[thegreenhell]

Maybe the fallout of the Stroll situation is that Danny Ricc misses the end of the season.

Stroll -> FI
Ocon -> STR
Gasly -> RBR
Kubica -> Williams
Ricciardo -> holiday

It's all a bit far-fetched, but nothing surprises me in F1 anymore. If RBR really are thinking of benching DR early then I really don't think that DR will want to sit in a tail-end car for a few races before he moves to Renault. That would at least open up a seat for Ocon at STR when he gets pushed out by Stroll.

[Vaud]

I think it is just posturing by RB. Clear message to DR that he is "yesterday".

[MissChief]

So the 2018 Red Bull will be anything from 70-90% designed and much of it in prototype stage with Carbon Fibre being laid down and baked already. It makes sense that they would know how wide the cockpit is going to be for next years car and rather than fly Gasly into the UK they just decided to wait until this weekend when both the car and Gasly were going to be at Monza. They'll know how the current car compares to the planned car and cockpit dimensions so it makes sense just to get Gasly into the cockpit and see how he is for elbow room etc. Someone saw the picture, put two and two together and came up with 514 and put out a bullst piece about how Gasly was going to take Danny Ric's seat this weekend and for the end of the season to get page impressions and ad views. It was garbage from start to finish.

[carl_w]

Perez now on McLaren's shortlist: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/138436/mclaren-a...

And Pat Fry linked to a possible return: https://racer.com/2018/09/01/fry-in-talks-with-mcl...

[carinaman]

Following carl_w's post above I looked through Jon Noble's Twitter feed. It says Lance Stroll has had a seat fitting at Force India:

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/force-india-con...

[Killer2005]

Not sure how reliable this is but Ferrari were planning on announcing that they had signed le clerc for next year after qualifying, then Kimi went and got pole so they pulled it.

https://thesportsrush.com/charles-leclerc-to-drive...

[Vaud]

It’s a click bait site that posts an infinite amount of rubbish.

[Sam993]

Vaud said:

It’s a click bait site that posts an infinite amount of rubbish.

Yeah, and I doubt Ferrari or any other big team would suddenly change their minds because of a single even like that.

[hairyben]

Vaud said:

It’s a click bait site that posts an infinite amount of rubbish.

there's a few sites that have sprung up recently that pretend to be news but seem to do nothing but regurgitate old news and make wild speculative headlines to catch attention and drive clicks. Givemesport is another. We should make a blacklist for reference.

[Vaud]

hairyben said:

there's a few sites that have sprung up recently that pretend to be news but seem to do nothing but regurgitate old news and make wild speculative headlines to catch attention and drive clicks. Givemesport is another. We should make a blacklist for reference.

Armchair bloggers, throw enough stories up and one might then be proven. Or post stuff that will never be proven.

[hairyben]

I feel we're really missing a couple more teams on the grid right now, when the future of the likes of Ocon doesn't look secure and Russell slaying it in F2 with no apparent F1 offer.

[suffolk009]

Vaud said:

hairyben said:

there's a few sites that have sprung up recently that pretend to be news but seem to do nothing but regurgitate old news and make wild speculative headlines to catch attention and drive clicks. Givemesport is another. We should make a blacklist for reference.

Armchair bloggers, throw enough stories up and one might then be proven. Or post stuff that will never be proven.

To be fair, you've just described Eddie Jordan's media career right there.

[Nickp82]

Probably just a nothing but Kimi did say 'maybe next time' when apologising to the Tifosi up on the podium earlier.

[Salamura]

Latest from the German press: apparently Marchione had already signed a contract with LeClerc before he passed away, around the Canadian GP. With Louis Camilleri and John Elkann wanting to follow Marchine's decisions, they might be forced to let Raikkonen go.

[cuprabob]

Salamura said:

Latest from the German press: apparently Marchione had already signed a contract with LeClerc before he passed away, around the Canadian GP. With Louis Camilleri and John Elkann wanting to follow Marchine's decisions, they might be forced to let Raikkonen go.

I read that the other day along with LeClerc's manager being Nicolas Todt's, Jean Todt's son.

[MiniMan64]

I don't think anyone's debating Le Clerc being in a Ferrari, contract or no contract.

Just a matter of when that's all.

Needs another season imho though, possibly in a Haas.