Turn Two's F1 silly-season predictions


We at Turn Two are a speculative bunch. And as the 2010 silly season continues, we thought we'd sink our teeth into our own predictions as to which team will sign who. We've looked at hundreds of sources from smaller and more trusted F1 websites and publishings, and these are our expectations.

- The red, italic drivers are our predictions.

- Drivers that are underlined are ones we predicted correctly and have now been confirmed.

- All other drivers are confirmed or have an on-going contact.

McLaren Mercedes
Jenson Button
Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes GP
Nico Rosberg
Michael Schumacher

Red Bull Renault
Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber

Ferrari
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa

Williams Cosworth
Rubens Barrichello
Nico Hulkenburg

Renault
Robert Kubica
Vitaly Petrov

Force India Mercedes
Adrian Sutil
Vitantonio Liuzzi

Toro Rosso Ferrari
Sebastian Buemi
Jaime Alguersuari

Campos META 1 Cosworth
Bruno Senna
Pastor Maldonado

USF1 Cosworth
José Maria Lopez
Adrian Valles

Virgin F1 Cosworth (Manor)
Timo Glock
Lucas di Grassi

Lotus Cosworth
Jarno Trulli
Heikki Kovalainen

Sauber Ferrari
Kamui Kobayashi
Pedro de la Rosa


Variables:
Bertrand Baguette (Sauber)
Romain Grosjean (Renault)
Adam Carroll (Virgin)
Alexander Wurz (USF1)
Nick Heidfeld (Mercedes)
Heikki Kovalainen (Renault, Lotus)
Franck Montagny (Renault)
Sebastien Bourdais (USF1)
Ralf Schumacher (Mercedes)
Takuma Sato (Sauber, USF1, Campos)
Jacques Villeneuve (USF1)
Anthony Davidson (Mercedes, Lotus, Virgin)
Paul di Resta (Force India)
Karun Chandhok (Red Bull, Toro Rosso)
Jacques Villeneuve (Lotus)
Andy Soucek (Williams)
Kazuki Nakajima
JR Hildebrand (USF1)
Nelson Piquet Jr (Campos)


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Last edited by Ross on 15th February 2010, 14:44; edited 13 times in total

Sounds like you can pencil in Trulli and Kovalainen in http://www.lotusf1racing.my/article/items/prime-minister-announces-lotus-f1-racing-2010-drivers.html

Oh yep, it's penned in now xD

Any thoughts on this then? Other predictions or so?

Who agrees/disagrees with what we reckoned?

Di Grassi AND Parente now at Virgin, so we're going to get at least 1 wrong!

So Campos is the next change, but who? Petrov? Koba to Renault?

And this is why you're wrong

McLaren Mercedes
Jenson Button
Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes GP
Nico Rosberg
Michael Schumacher

Red Bull Renault
Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber

Ferrari
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa

Williams Cosworth
Rubens Barrichello
Nico Hulkenburg

Renault
Robert Kubica
Romain Grosjean

Force India Mercedes
Adrian Sutil
Vitantonio Liuzzi

Toro Rosso Ferrari
Sebastian Buemi
Jaime Alguersuari

Campos META 1 Cosworth
Bruno Senna
Pedro De La Rosa

USF1 Cosworth
José Maria Lopez
Jacques Villeneuve

Virgin F1 Cosworth (Manor)
Timo Glock
Lucas di Grassi

Reserve Driver
Álvaro Parente


Lotus Cosworth
Jarno Trulli
Heikki Kovalainen

Sauber Ferrari
Andy Soucek
Kamui Kobayashi

Leks wrote:And this is why you're wrong

McLaren Mercedes
Jenson Button
Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes GP
Nico Rosberg
Michael Schumacher

Red Bull Renault
Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber

Ferrari
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa

Williams Cosworth
Rubens Barrichello
Nico Hulkenburg

Renault
Robert Kubica
Romain Grosjean

Force India Mercedes
Adrian Sutil
Vitantonio Liuzzi

Toro Rosso Ferrari
Sebastian Buemi
Jaime Alguersuari

Campos META 1 Cosworth
Bruno Senna
Pedro De La Rosa

USF1 Cosworth
José Maria Lopez
Jacques Villeneuve

Virgin F1 Cosworth (Manor)
Timo Glock
Lucas di Grassi

Reserve Driver
Álvaro Parente


Lotus Cosworth
Jarno Trulli
Heikki Kovalainen

Sauber Ferrari
Andy Soucek
Kamui Kobayashi

Not quite. Sousek wont get in due to Fisi being sent by Ferrari.
Soucek's likely route into F1 will be as Williams reserve before waiting a year. At Renault the new investor see will Ho Pin Tung (I think thats his name...) take the 2nd seat.

Kobayashi right so far

Mike wrote:Ho Pin Tung (I think thats his name...)

It is

Well Schumacher's right. We're having that, it counts.

I think we'll stick with Fisichella at Sauber for now, despite DLR rumours

Well DLR does get the Sauber seat meaning Fisico is out of a drive.. UNLESS he goes to Campos with the rumours they might have a Ferrari deal for 2011..

Well, Jaime's confirmed (YESS GET IN!), just four more places up for grabs.

So, looks like soon 1 more will fall leaving 3 places for many competitive drivers to fill. But the question is... who has the most money?