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I have a feeling that in 2007 we are going to see more driver changes, and new faces than we have seen in a long time. Mind you some old faces could disappear before then

i concur

Michael i think will surely retire by end of 2006 & so will Jacques & probably DC!!!

julian mayo wrote:I have a feeling that in 2007 we are going to see more driver changes, and new faces than we have seen in a long time. Mind you some old faces could disappear before then

Im sure we will be seeing some new faces, but there are already quite a few young drivers at the fast end of things, so they are gonna be sticking around for a while. Maybe we'll see speed, davidson, kovalien and montagny making a move into F1 although i'd only expect 1 of them to make a decent impact...
Also, i doubt we'll be seeing a woman coming into F1 anytime soon.. there are just no good female racing drivers. But then what do you expect.. with their lack of spatial awareness! hehe

danilen1 wrote:

julian mayo wrote:I have a feeling that in 2007 we are going to see more driver changes, and new faces than we have seen in a long time. Mind you some old faces could disappear before then

Im sure we will be seeing some new faces, but there are already quite a few young drivers at the fast end of things, so they are gonna be sticking around for a while. Maybe we'll see speed, davidson, kovalien and montagny making a move into F1 although i'd only expect 1 of them to make a decent impact...
Also, i doubt we'll be seeing a woman coming into F1 anytime soon.. there are just no good female racing drivers. But then what do you expect.. with their lack of spatial awareness! hehe

dead man posting

Check out the North American Motorsports category, danilen. There's two women who we might be seeing in F1 in the future...Danica Patrick and Katherine Legge.

danilen1 wrote:Also, i doubt we'll be seeing a woman coming into F1 anytime soon.. there are just no good female racing drivers. But then what do you expect.. with their lack of spatial awareness! hehe

You must be suicidal

Just read that Red Bull are due to anounce Scott Speed will be their 3rd driver next year. Klein and Liuzzi must be feeling very nervous.

rah wrote:Just read that Red Bull are due to anounce Scott Speed will be their 3rd driver next year. Klein and Liuzzi must be feeling very nervous.

Yes Rah,its announced,its official!!!
Liuzzi , if i'm not mistaken would drive after Monza till end of the season rgt?

Luizzi and Klien are now very nervously waiting to find out who the 2nd driver will be with DC. Whoever is not, walks out of F1.

The latest goss from the UK has Heidfield about to sign a 3 year deal with BMW, as his Williams contract expires today. If Sir Frank did pick up his option with Nick it would enormously complicate the Williams-Button saga.
Nico Rossberg is tipped to fill the second Williams seat in Suzuka and Shanghai.

<T-K> wrote:

danilen1 wrote:Also, i doubt we'll be seeing a woman coming into F1 anytime soon.. there are just no good female racing drivers. But then what do you expect.. with their lack of spatial awareness! hehe

You must be suicidal

lol, well i didnt get quite the rebuking i expected for such a sexist post, althou it was said in an effort to bait a few of you.. interesting none of you stepped up to defend womankind! (secretly you all agree with me)
Also mlittle, i am quite aware of Danika, shes good, but nothing special - id rate her as highly as heidfeld. Also, I have only seen her on tv once, was she having a good day, or is she genuinely quite attractive? hehe (I would like an honest answer please... could give me a reason to stay up til 4 am to watch IRL on 5) Could be nice to see her in F1, would give Martin Brundle a reason to chat to a pit babe during the grid walk haha!

Whats this i hear about JV going to renault? I think i heard James (assbrain) Allen say something about JV maybe going back... Could be interesting, I think JV is back up to pace and COULD do better than Fisi (i feel sorry for the poor guy). (wow im using the the brackets a lot! )

I would like to add that I am not sexist, i just dont believe in men and women having equal rights.

danilen1 wrote:

<T-K> wrote:

danilen1 wrote:Also, i doubt we'll be seeing a woman coming into F1 anytime soon.. there are just no good female racing drivers. But then what do you expect.. with their lack of spatial awareness! hehe

You must be suicidal

lol, well i didnt get quite the rebuking i expected for such a sexist post, althou it was said in an effort to bait a few of you.. interesting none of you stepped up to defend womankind! (secretly you all agree with me)
Also mlittle, i am quite aware of Danika, shes good, but nothing special - id rate her as highly as heidfeld. Also, I have only seen her on tv once, was she having a good day, or is she genuinely quite attractive? hehe (I would like an honest answer please... could give me a reason to stay up til 4 am to watch IRL on 5) Could be nice to see her in F1, would give Martin Brundle a reason to chat to a pit babe during the grid walk haha!

Whats this i hear about JV going to renault? I think i heard James (assbrain) Allen say something about JV maybe going back... Could be interesting, I think JV is back up to pace and COULD do better than Fisi (i feel sorry for the poor guy). (wow im using the the brackets a lot! )

We didn't step up because
A/ You expected it.
B/ Sgd has been shot down in flames for a similar sexist post.
C/ Yawn.

Also mlittle, I am aware of Danika; shes good, but nothing special...

Then you must also be aware that back in 2000, when she finished 2nd in the 2000 Formula Ford Festival(highest ever finish for an American), she turned a lot of heads across the racing community, including a couple of people in Formula 1 at the time, among them McLaren's Ron Dennis, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and then-Jaguar chief Bobby Rahal. Since then, as part of Rahal's team, she's(and I know I've mentioned this before...right, julian)honed her skill, her racecraft, to get to where she is today. Granted, she should be in ChampCars(and would be had Rahal not switched series) now and yet most motorsports analysts here in North America have said that she is no 1-act wonder, that she is, in the words of Speed Channel's Robin Miller, the "real deal". Now, while her performance at Indy(4th place) has been the high-water mark of the season so far, having followed the sport for a while now, I can say this...you don't do that well your first year at the Brickyard, as challenging an oval(2.5-miles, flat/low-banked) as is it, unless your either very lucky OR very good at what you do, and having seen the race this year, that run of hers' wasn't luck.

Now, as to your other cognizent point, quoting from you....

there are just no good female drivers.

I stand by my posting of 30 August 2005, when I mentioned that there were two women who had a shot at F1 in the near-future.. I've already mentioned Patrick, so let me turn the focus over to Katherine Legge. Her three wins in the ChampCar Atlantic Championship(a series that has produced, danilen, two F1 champions, Jacques Villeneuve[the younger], and Keke Rosberg) were no fluke; they were the result of some very skilled, hard-nosed driving on her part. Just ask this year's Atlantic Champion, Charles Zwolsman, about her driving ability. I'm not a gambling man, but I'd wager one of them will make it into F1 by the end of the decade, maybe sooner. It's just going to take a lot hard work by both Patrick and Legge to make it there, but I honestly think they'll be there. Who knows.....one of them might be a future WDC.
As I say in some of NA motorsports postings, that's my say. What say you?

I concur. 2007/8 could well see Legge and Patrick in F1