donald29 wrote:Red Bull have made it quite clear they do not think he is good enough to race for Red Bull Racing, is it an awkward feeling to be working for them as third driver when they have this view and is he looking for drives elsewhere?
Sebastien Buemi wrote:They wouldn’t want me if I was not part of the future. I am only 23.
He may be part of the Redbull future, but not F1.phil1993 wrote:donald29 wrote:Red Bull have made it quite clear they do not think he is good enough to race for Red Bull Racing, is it an awkward feeling to be working for them as third driver when they have this view and is he looking for drives elsewhere?Sebastien Buemi wrote:They wouldn’t want me if I was not part of the future. I am only 23.
Had forgotten about this.phil1993 wrote:donald29 wrote:Red Bull have made it quite clear they do not think he is good enough to race for Red Bull Racing, is it an awkward feeling to be working for them as third driver when they have this view and is he looking for drives elsewhere?Sebastien Buemi wrote:They wouldn’t want me if I was not part of the future. I am only 23.
Cheers for asking. 
Kovalainen predicts championship to Alonso
F1 | Turun Sanomat 10:40
Already in the winter tests, all experienced Mercedes tactician Ross Brawn predicted that there may be coming the most intriguing championship battle in the history of Formula 1. Most recently in 2009 by his own team the titles overwhelmingly won Brawn looks once again hitting the bull's eye.
The whole F1 sport has gained a whole new look, when winning has become so open and the top is invaded every time by a different driver. Solely, the importance of winning may have been impaired, when the most important factor to success has become the driver's constant level of performance to snip points every time.
Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are the only two who have been on points in all six races. When Alonso has a win from Malaysia, and Hamilton has not yet won, Ferrari's Spanish driver now leads the series, and McLaren's more bungled British is 13 points behind at fourth.
Six drivers inside one victory, or in other words inside 25 points, when Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen fell to sixth place in Monaco and needs just as much as Hamilton the so important victory into his score book.
There are still more championship candidates than ever at this stage, when the third of the season is over.
Alonso can handle all situations
Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen came boldly up at the evening of Monaco GP and presented a well reasoned championship prediction.
- Alonso leads... Yes, he will take the championship this year. Whenever there are are special situations or weather conditions, there is always one common variable: Alonso is always in it at the front. He just pushes himself to there, Kovalainen thinks.
Tyre side is more like reading gibberish even to top drivers.
- I think nobody has a clear picture. A good example is Monaco. McLaren has usually been the ruler of Monaco, but was now just mediocre, and Jenson Button could not pass us. If tyres stop working, everyone is against the wall. There is nothing we can do about it, Kovalainen explained.
Only nine successful overtaking was seen on the track in Monace race. The average thereby collapsed at once. The last time there was less than ten overtakings was in Japan 2010, when there was seven. A year ago, 16 overtakings was seen in Monaco.
Smoothness is the key
Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali pushes everyone in the team to ensure the continuity of the reliability.
- Our most dangerous opponent at this point would be zero points in any race. In Monaco we could have won by taking the risk, if Alonso had been driving on super soft tyres 2-3 laps longer. But who could have said, what kind of lap times we could had got anymore with those tyres. I am absolutely convinced that we made tactically the right decision and we are pleased with the result.
- Smoothness is the key factor in championship battle, Domenicali pointed out once again.
Lotus swallowed up the team's worst result in the season in Enstone team's 500th celibration race. Kimi Raikkonen was ninth. From the point of view of championship battle Finnish driver, however, saw the positive side of two points.
- We did not achieve what we had hoped, but if our bad weekend is like this and we still get two points, that's not the end of the world. Again, these points can make a big difference at the end of the season, Raikkonen lined it up.
Turun Sanomat, Monte Carlo
HEIKKI KULTA
mikhailv wrote:If Alonso wins this years championship, everyone who said I was a stark raving lunatic must eat their microphone sponges and/or ALONS0 keys from their keyboards.
In all seriousness I was thinking about this tyres mixing it up palava and 6 winners in 6 races. Well, if we think, we've had 2 red bull wins, a Ferrari, a Mclaren, a Mercedes and a Williams. If you take the williams out, the top 4 teams have all won the races. Thats what we thought would happen last year. In fact, last year there was 5 winners right, well we've only gone one more than that this year, and to be honest there is only lewis left to win a race, Lotus wont win. Neither will Massa or Schumacher.
So its not unpredictable in all honesty. The top teams, have each won a race with Williams making a fluke win which wont be repeated. Its still Alonso, Webber, Vettel, Hamilton and Button at the top of the standings. Like last year. Its not unpredictable at all. Redbull doesnt have dominance, so we're seeing other teams winning.
In a ways, its like 2009. After brawns dominance, you didnt know if Button/barrichello would win, if Vettel/webber would win, or if Lewis or Kimi would win, because at certain tracks Mclaren and Ferrari were much much better, Redbull were better at some tracks, and then Brawns would come into their own. So that year we still had the top 4 teams winning a race at least and 6 different winners.
its like monaco 2011, that couldve been Ferrari. Spain 2011 couldve been Mclaren. Thats two further wins to take from Red Bull last year for example. Its not a mixed up year at all, the top teams are at the top like usual, closer together, and whoever can do the best job in the race reaps the rewards.
Wet races always throw up surprise winners or podiums. 2008 with barrichello's podium in the RA108 at Silverstone, 2006 with button winning hungary, Panis in Monaco. I think alot of people are truly over reacting and blaming Pirelli.
mikhailv wrote:If Alonso wins this years championship, everyone who said I was a stark raving lunatic must eat their microphone sponges and/or ALONS0 keys from their keyboards.
In all seriousness I was thinking about this tyres mixing it up palava and 6 winners in 6 races. Well, if we think, we've had 2 red bull wins, a Ferrari, a Mclaren, a Mercedes and a Williams. If you take the williams out, the top 4 teams have all won the races. Thats what we thought would happen last year. In fact, last year there was 5 winners right, well we've only gone one more than that this year, and to be honest there is only lewis left to win a race, Lotus wont win. Neither will Massa or Schumacher...
You sure meet strange people. Do people really have microphone sponges; weird keyboards 
Can't you be stark raving lunatic even if Alonso wins WDC or are you planning to eat something if Kimi, Romain, Felipe or Michael gets a race win I wouldn't be surprised if Romain wins a race when everything drops in place IMHO. Even if he is still young and sort of half rookie, I don't think he needs to wait seven years before first win and it might as well be this year.
Thank you very much, Phil!phil1993 wrote:Lotus will win a race. If Kimi wasn't a bit race rusty I think he would have stuck one up the inside of Seb in Bahrain. There's fourteen chances still.
I'm so fed up with these Lotus/Kimi bashers! 
They make the aptmosphere here very unpleasant! The atmosphere isn't unpleasent because of a negative opinion. Over reacting or what? What about when you goto the WRC thread and say kimi was doing poor and having 10 super fans try and murder you because of their precious obsession with Kimi?Suomileijona wrote:Thank you very much, Phil!phil1993 wrote:Lotus will win a race. If Kimi wasn't a bit race rusty I think he would have stuck one up the inside of Seb in Bahrain. There's fourteen chances still.
