-Alonso Goes Crawling Back Into the Arms of HIS Daddy Flavy-
After weeks of heaps and heaps of speculation, it has finally been confirmed that Nando would race in the French team's outfit (again) next year. This year Renault has been nothing short of...disastrous. Heck racing it against a lawn mower through the fields of Iowa, who would win? Okay maybe that wasn't exactly a good comparison to make but anyways, it was reported that it's a three year, £70m deal with an exit clause. So if a seat is available over at the Italian stable in 09, Ferdie can make a jump for it. Yeah nice try boy. Now ya'll would probably ask, where did the money come from? Well remember the "super fund" that was gathered to woo him back? Guess it worked.
And his teammate next season would be *drum rolls*..............Nelsinho Piquet Jr.! I have heard people saying he would kick Ferdie's butt, making it a LeAlonso again. Well no complains there, makes for fine entertainment but a huge difference this time, the DADDY's Flavy and the baby boy is Nando. So you can pretty much guess who's gonna get the eggs behind their baskets if assumingly Lonz would bring that '0.6 seconds' advantage over to Renault. And IF their car won't be that butt ugly plug this year that did nothing but reek. Some rumors suggest that Heikki was dropped because he was too fast and rumor has it, Fisi got picked up by Force India. So from Renault: bye bye Fisi and Heikki.
It's an obvious choice to pick Kovy really considering who's left out there for McLaren to catch and he doesn't cost much considering the 'beleaguered' financial situation they're in. So does that mean it was Mutua Madrilena (who earlier in the week left) was the one that wanted Pedal as the #2 driver but McLaren saying no so they pulled the plug? Whatever it is I'm just glad that Kovy gets a seat next year. Hopefully he'll get a chance at it and not have a run at just being a #2. Wait, am I kidding myself?
FYI I think he looks washed out in silver considering the outfit makes his hair look seriously white and his face all...washed out and stuff. Lookin like gramps at 26.
-Dennis to Get the Boot?-
Recently, in a surprising move, McLaren had issued an apology to the FIA (an apology, yeah, sounds more like a plea bargain). Apparently there was Ferrari stuff going on in the 08 McLaren. They weren't completely honest about Mike Coughlan's role within the team and that senior figures in the team were willing to use Ferrari's technical information on their 08 car (well they did, it's just that they were willing to) in addition to knowing about 'the Ferrari mole'. And the icing, it was signed by martin Whitmarsh. Ron, you on holiday?
So in light of the revelation from Marty, RD's judgment has been put under question and fire. For this absolutely puts to shame Ron's emotional defense back in Silverstone. Quote: 'I live and breathe this team. And there is no way anything incorrect has taken place here.' He can ultimately pay with his job. We can all see that he has made a pile of mistakes this season. So does that give him the boot? No wait, RD just said "he will not resign."
"I'm not going to quit. That is 100 per cent. I know there are people out there who want me to retire, but I'm not. I do not think it would be in the best interests of the team."
Err...you sure?
Good ol' uncle Webber from down under said he's hopeful the team can push BMW as the third best team and that it would take some measures to improve the reliability of the car. Well yeah duh.
"You know, I could tell you we want to be there or there and give you numbers and rankings, but this is all inappropriate. It would be great to challenge BMW for third but, on the other hand, almost everybody else is determined to improve. It will be close and hard. If we have a reliable car the good results will follow suit. If we could win? Under normal circumstances not yet. There were seven retirements [in 2007], one because of the accident with Sebastian Vettel and six caused by technical failures. I know reliability is the issue for us to score not one but several podiums next year, and I am very confident that Geoff (Willis) can provide the last missing link for gaining that reliability. We had one shot for a win in Fuji but that was a different kind of race."
-Nico Hulkenberg got the test driver seat for Williams after the two day Jerez test. Willi Weber's protege, a former karting champion, dominated the A1GP in his rookie year handing Team Germany the title and came in third in this year's F3 Euroseries, sure shows he got some speed. He'd be racing in the F3 Euroseries again alongside his test driver duties for Williams next year.
-Force India to announce their driver line up by Christmas. Whatever.-Germany Wins Race of Champions!-
Team Germany, entered with Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel to beat Team Finland in the finals in front of a 50,000 crowd at the new Wembley on a giant scalextric built inside the stadium. Team Germany had beaten England in the semi-finals with Jense and Andy Priaulx at the wheel. Schu did suffer an embarrassment when he stalled in his final heat against Heikki and left everything to Seba who won over Markus Gronholm followed by his win over Kovy in the race-off.
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