2010 driver line up and possible villeneuve return

steamdrivenhammer

According to Crash.net Jacques Villeneuve has signed or is about to sign a deal with USF1 for next year. Also Webbo has signed for Red Bull for next year too.

Therefore the 2010 grid looks like this so far

BrawnGP
Button
+ one other (Senna maybe)
Red Bull
Vettel
Webbo
Ferrari
Massa
Raikkonen (if he can be arsed)
Renault
Alonso
Grosjean or Di Grassi
Williams
Nakajima
+ one (Heidfeld, Rubens)
Toyota
Trulli
Glock probably
BMW
Kubica probably
Rosberg possibly Heidfeld, Klein
McLaren
Hamilton
Heikki Probably (Rosberg, Sutil, someone German)
Torro Rosso
Buemi (just for the required Sebastian)
one youngster from Driver Developement
Force India
Anyones Guess
Whoever brings £££
or whoevers hasn't got a seat elsewhere
USF1GPE
Villeneuve
Some young American (Summerton, Hildebrand, Rozenwieg, Rahal, Marco Andretti
Campos Meta
Someone Spanish
Pantano maybe
Manor
See Force India

[Edited on 3-8-09 by steamdrivenhammer]

viges

Alonso to TOIT.

Heikki outta McLaren.

Jacques? Got to be joking.

steamdrivenhammer

According to the bbc the guy in charge of US F1 has said that Villeneuve may not be right for the team, but ALex Wurz could be!!

Stan

They should just put in two Americans, what have they got to lose?

Minardi4eva

Danica Patrick.

Decent publicity for a new team will put them on the map straight away.

steamdrivenhammer

Originally posted by Minardi4eva
Danica Patrick.

Decent publicity for a new team will put them on the map straight away.

No No No No No No No and forever no.

She's has only won one race in her Indycar career and that was on a Japanese oval. She's more famous for posing in a bikini for Sports Illustrated, marrying her manager and whinging about the other drivers than for anything she's ever done at the wheel of an Indycar.

Besides which she has been in discussions with Chip Ganassi about a drive next year. Why Ganassi probably because they have a NASCAR setup and when she gets fed up of Indycar she can make even more money doing very little in NASCAR than she can doing very little in Indycar.

[Edited on 25-7-09 by steamdrivenhammer]

oznomad

"They should just put in two Americans, what have they got to lose?"

A bucketload of credibility and, therefore, and shitload of money.

Don't know the other bloke, but Peter Windsor is no idiot.

steamdrivenhammer

Looks like Crash.net have been reading this forum and pinched my idea. I'll admit there predictions are more up-to-date than mine but some match. We won't know about the 13th team until its announced as to who's been accepted. So no-ones predicted that.

Crash.net's prediction of how they'll line up in 2010:

Brawn GP: Jenson Button/Bruno Senna

Red Bull Racing: Sebastian Vettel/Mark Webber

Ferrari: Felipe Massa/Fernando Alonso

Toyota: Jarno Trulli/Timo Glock

McLaren-Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton/Heikki Kovalainen

Williams: Nico Rosberg/Nico Hülkenberg

Renault: Robert Kubica/Romain Grosjean

Scuderia Toro Rosso: Sébastien Buemi/Jaime Alguersuari

Force India: Adrian Sutil/Vitantonio Liuzzi

USF1: Alex Wurz/Ryan Hunter-Reay

Manor: Adam Carroll/Paul di Resta

Campos: Pedro de la Rosa/Giorgio Pantano


Crash.net predicts no room at the F1 2010 inn for the following:

Rubens Barrichello, Kimi Raikkonen, Nick Heidfeld, Kazuki Nakajima, Nelsinho Piquet, Sébastien Bourdais, Giancarlo Fisichella and Jacques Villeneuve


by Russell Atkins

steamdrivenhammer

ooh by the way I'm not Russel Atkins he's the Crash.net guy.

forzaminardi

She's more famous for posing in a bikini for Sports Illustrated, marrying her manager and whinging about the other drivers than for anything she's ever done at the wheel of an Indycar.

You say it as if that's a bad thing... apart from the bikini it sounds like DC's career ;-)

forzaminardi

btw villeneuve has been rumoured to race in superleague for a few races this year, maybe to get fit for his F1 return ;-)

steamdrivenhammer

I didn't know DC married his manager.

I thought his manager was Martin Brundle :o:o:o

manlio27

Hard to believe Kimi and Nick to be out of 2010 line-up.....
As for Villeneuve, I'll only believe it if and when I see it.
Danica Patrick? I'm frankly indifferent. But she has no chance at all to make any good in F1.

steamdrivenhammer

Frank Montagny is the lateast driver linked to USF1. Although he has been in contact with Andretti Green Racing and Gil De Ferran about an IRL seat next year.