F1 2007 driver line-ups

[sstein]

Hi,

Does anyone have a list of confirmed drivers for 2007,

So far all I can seem to find is

Ferrari - Kimi & Massa
Renault - Fisi & Kovaleinin
Red Bull - DC & Webber
Spyker - Albers & ????
Toyota - ???? (ralf schumacher ???)
Mclaren - Alonso, have they confirmed a second driver yet???
BMW - Kubica ?? and Heidfeld
Honda - Button & Rubens

Is Rosberg cofirmed for a drive next year, there are a few drivers for the bottom teams who need to be dropped!!!

Cheers


Stuart

[D-Angle]

sstein said:

Spyker - Albers & ????

Rumoured to be Gary Paffett if the right deal can be done.

Rumours also still going round that Anthony Davidson will be going to Super Aguri next year. They're probably just delaying the announcement until they can find some long lost Japanese branch to his family tree.

[FourWheelDrift]

Ferrari - Kimi & Massa - (both signed up)
Renault - Fisi & Kovaleinin - (both signed up)
Red Bull - DC & Webber - (both signed up)
Spyker - Albers & possibly Paffett
Toyota - Trulli & Schumacher R (both signed up)
Mclaren - Alonso & Hamilton hopefully
BMW - Kubica and Heidfeld (both signed up)
Honda - Button & Rubens (both signed up)
Super Aguri - Sato & Davidson (strongly rumoured)
STR - Liuzzi & Speed (both signed up)
Williams - Wurz & Rosberg (both signed up)

Bold, yet to be confirmed.

[sstein]

Found that Toyota confirmed Trulli & Ralf,

Ralf I guess because he is on a massive contract that they wolnt want to just write off but he really isnt worth the money he is paid (IMO).

How long can Toyota warrant the taem budget if they keep performing so badly.

Still cant find anything about Mclarens second driver, they must not said who will be with Alonso yet!

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Stuart

[kevin ritson]

Trulli's been confirmed at Toyota, I believe
Williams are running Wurz and Rosberg

[kevin ritson]

Must type faster!

[sstein]

FourWheelDrift said:

Ferrari - Kimi & Massa - (both signed up)
Renault - Fisi & Kovaleinin - (both signed up)
Red Bull - DC & Webber - (both signed up)
Spyker - Albers & possibly Paffett
Toyota - Trulli & Schumacher R (both signed up)
Mclaren - Alonso & Hamilton hopefully
BMW - Kubica and Heidfeld (both signed up)
Honda - Button & Rubens (both signed up)
Super Aguri - Sato & Davidson (strongly rumoured)
STR - Liuzzi & Speed (both signed up)
Williams - Wurz & Rosberg (both signed up)

Bold, yet to be confirmed.

Thank you for that

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Stuart

[Jungles]

sstein said:

Found that Toyota confirmed Trulli & Ralf,

Ralf I guess because he is on a massive contract that they wolnt want to just write off but he really isnt worth the money he is paid (IMO).

How long can Toyota warrant the taem budget if they keep performing so badly.

I don't think it's Toyota. Rather, it's probably Ralf and Trulli who aren't up to scratch.

[rubystone]

Ref Toyota - 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other. Everyone knows that Trulli can't perform if the car isn't exactly to his liking and that Ralf loses interest if things aren't going his way. Toyota's 2006 car really only worked on medium downforce circuits and that is unaceptable for a team that ploughs the amount of money that it does into F1.

The 2nd Spyker seat has to go to the man with the largest stash. Viso has a chunk of money from a Venezualan bank, Monteiro has the national budget of Portugal behind him and Gary Paffett...he has a stall in Romford Market selling lingerie (allegedly)...

Davidson has the Aguri drive - I just can't understand why they haven't announced it yet

[williamp]

FourWheelDrift said:

Ferrari - Kimi & Massa - (both signed up)
Renault - Fisi & Kovaleinin - (both signed up)
Red Bull - DC & Webber - (both signed up)
Spyker - Albers & possibly Paffett
Toyota - Trulli & Schumacher R (both signed up)
Mclaren - Alonso & Hamilton hopefully
BMW - Kubica and Heidfeld (both signed up)
Honda - Button & Rubens (both signed up)
Super Aguri - Sato & Davidson (strongly rumoured)
STR - Liuzzi & Speed (both signed up)
Williams - Wurz & Rosberg (both signed up)

Bold, yet to be confirmed.

That woudl be great: 5 British drivers in the race. Superb!

[SKR]

Jungles said:

sstein said:

Found that Toyota confirmed Trulli & Ralf,

Ralf I guess because he is on a massive contract that they wolnt want to just write off but he really isnt worth the money he is paid (IMO).

How long can Toyota warrant the taem budget if they keep performing so badly.

I don't think it's Toyota. Rather, it's probably Ralf and Trulli who aren't up to scratch.

I think it is clearly the car that is not performing. IMO in F1 these days the driver does not play as big a part in the overall scheme of things as they have in the past. No matter how good the driver, if you put them in a poor car they will not be winning races.

[SamHH]

Our predictions earlier in the year:

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=42&t=283463

[jamesvw]

im sure i heard in the commentary at the end of the GP last sunday, that Hamilton had got the 2nd McLaren drive.

[deevlash]

hamilton still isnt confirmed AFAIK, Id be suprised if he's not in the car though. Paffet in a spyker would be good though, be interesting to see what he could do.

[rubystone]

I just can't see 2MB raising the sort of cash that the other contenders for the Spyker drive seem to have in their pcokets. A shame, but that is a fact of life in F1

[anonymous-user]

Haven't Mclaren/Mercedes been known to fund drivers seats in lower teams to school them for a potential move up to the first team proper?

[rubystone]

LexSport said:

Haven't Mclaren/Mercedes been known to fund drivers seats in lower teams to school them for a potential move up to the first team proper?

I'm not sure that they have in F1 - they wanted to push Direxiv for all sorts of logistical reasons and did run Haberfeld and Heidfeld in F3000 IIRC, but not sure about their doing this in F1. They have made it plain that they won't stand in the way of Paffett if he finds a drive - that stops well short of funding him though.

[FourWheelDrift]

They might have helped Panis get the drive with Toyota after doing a good job as McLaren test driver but I don't think money was involved.

[LongQ]

rubystone said:

Davidson has the Aguri drive - I just can't understand why they haven't announced it yet

Which could be quite interesting since Sato finished 10 last weekend.

Yes I know a lot of people fell off or otherwise succumbed but there were a few still moving behind him. Which suggests they are making useful progress and with a driver having the testing experience of Davidson it might just become rather useful.

[Mr_Thyroid]

I thought Klien was going to Spyker.