The Official F1 2019 silly season *contains speculation*

[Supersam83]

2019 F1 Driver Line-Up: (as of 25/09/2018)

Ferrari - Vettel - Leclerc

Mercedes - Hamilton - Bottas

Red Bull - Verstappen - Gasly

Renault - Ricciardo - Hulkenberg

Sauber - Raikkonen - Giovinazzi

HAAS - TBA - TBA

Racing Point Force India - TBA - TBA

Toro Rosso - TBA - TBA

Williams - TBA - TBA

[HustleRussell]

Well played Ferrari. Got your man in next to your best known benchmark.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

I’m surprised, I thought GIO was going to be utilised for sim work again.

First VET loses his no2, then he loses his Saturday night grafter.

[FourWheelDrift]

Sauber looking serious for next year, going for 3rd in the constructors? What with all that Ferrari backing now and with Red Bull's chocolate Hondas.

[thebigmacmoomin]

Great news, no seat for Marcus Ericsson.

[slipstream 1985]

thebigmacmoomin said:

Great news, no seat for Marcus Ericsson.

How much money does he bring? Williams might be interested?

[andburg]

slipstream 1985 said:

thebigmacmoomin said:

Great news, no seat for Marcus Ericsson.

How much money does he bring? Williams might be interested?

staying on as reserve/ambassador

otherwise known as Kimi's bh!

Kimi will do the driving bit, Ericsson will be shoved along to all the sponsor events, promotional stuff and Kimi can just do what he loves

[thegreenhell]

slipstream 1985 said:

thebigmacmoomin said:

Great news, no seat for Marcus Ericsson.

How much money does he bring? Williams might be interested?

His backers own Sauber, so he can't even keep hold of a drive in their own team. What are the chances they'd pay for him to drive for a rival team (unles they wanted to hinder them, of course..)?

[Vaud]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

I’m surprised, I thought GIO was going to be utilised for sim work again.

First VET loses his no2, then he loses his Saturday night grafter.

I thought Kyvat was the main development driver at Ferrari?

[anonymous-user]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

I’m surprised, I thought GIO was going to be utilised for sim work again.

First VET loses his no2, then he loses his Saturday night grafter.

Vettel out at the end of 2019 if Leclerc is the real deal

Just feel Ferrari are not happy about the last two years without success.

[thegreenhell]

Vaud said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

I’m surprised, I thought GIO was going to be utilised for sim work again.

First VET loses his no2, then he loses his Saturday night grafter.

I thought Kyvat was the main development driver at Ferrari?

Kvyat and Gio both do sim work for Ferrari, and they could lose both of them for next season.

[Mark-C]

thegreenhell said:

Kvyat and Gio both do sim work for Ferrari, and they could lose both of them for next season.

So are any of the other Ferrari Academy drivers up to Sim work yet? Fuoco has tested in F1 but not sure about the others.

ETA ... They should probably keep hold of Kvyat if they can.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mark-C said:

So are any of the other Ferrari Academy drivers up to Sim work yet? Fuoco has tested in F1 but not sure about the others.

ETA ... They should probably keep hold of Kvyat if they can.

They're waiting on Enzo Fittipaldi currently in F4, grandson of Emerson and with a name like that they can wait.

[red_slr]

Waiting for Piquet and Alesi more like..

Hubert has to be in with a shout?

[Mr_Thyroid]

Supersam83 said:

2019 F1 Driver Line-Up: (as of 25/09/2018)

Ferrari - Vettel - Leclerc

Mercedes - Hamilton - Bottas

Red Bull - Verstappen - Gasly

Renault - Ricciardo - Hulkenberg

Sauber - Raikkonen - Giovinazzi

HAAS - TBA - TBA

Racing Point Force India - TBA - TBA

Toro Rosso - TBA - TBA

Williams - TBA - TBA

You missed:

McLaren - Sainz - Norris


There's been lots of talk about who'll be losing their drive next year - so far Alonso and Ericsson are out (Norris and Giovonazzi confirmed in their places)

Hartley, Vandoorne and Ocon are all hotly tipped to be without drives, some have said Grosjean too, although his performances have improved of late - other than Russell, who else is likely to step into a drive?

[thegreenhell]

Mr_Thyroid said:

You missed:

McLaren - Sainz - Norris


There's been lots of talk about who'll be losing their drive next year - so far Alonso and Ericsson are out (Norris and Giovonazzi confirmed in their places)

Hartley, Vandoorne and Ocon are all hotly tipped to be without drives, some have said Grosjean too, although his performances have improved of late - other than Russell, who else is likely to step into a drive?

Kvyat - possible return to STR
Markelov - tipped to bring more Russian money to Williams

I think that, realistically, only the two STR seats and the second Williams are undecided, and possibly Grosjean at Haas.

Sirotkin was announced last year as a 'multi-year' deal, so I expect him to remain at Williams.
RPFI (or whatever they will call themselves next year, will be Perez and Stroll.
Magnussen should be safe at Haas. The team keep saying positive things about him, and there's been no whisper of him being replaced.

[FourWheelDrift]

thegreenhell said:

Markelov - tipped to bring more Russian money to Williams.

I rate him, he has learnt how to make the tyres last but still be quick in F2, if he can do that in F1 he'll do well.

[Dermot O'Logical]

Mark-C said:

thegreenhell said:

Kvyat and Gio both do sim work for Ferrari, and they could lose both of them for next season.

So are any of the other Ferrari Academy drivers up to Sim work yet? Fuoco has tested in F1 but not sure about the others.

ETA ... They should probably keep hold of Kvyat if they can.

Schumacher Jr? He's recently started winning in Euro F3, and is a Ferrari Academy driver.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Mark-C said:

thegreenhell said:

Kvyat and Gio both do sim work for Ferrari, and they could lose both of them for next season.

So are any of the other Ferrari Academy drivers up to Sim work yet? Fuoco has tested in F1 but not sure about the others.

ETA ... They should probably keep hold of Kvyat if they can.

There have been mentions all through the year that it is GIO’s sim work on a Saturday night that has been Ferrari’s secret ingredient.

Certainly the races in which Ferrari looked to have been beat on the Saturday (earlier in the season) they had him running a night shift in the simulator to get on top of the race pace with tyres.

I can’t recall which race, but Arivebene specifically thanked him after winning.

[exelero]

Vaud said:

I thought Kyvat was the main development driver at Ferrari?

Kvyat in Torro Rosso next year alongside Wehreiln,, they will confirm it in Russia