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But I'm content with this alternative as well
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giraurd wrote:tommykl wrote:Even though Renault, Kubica and the motorsport media are slowly beginning to hype this up, I refuse to believe it will actually happen. Because if I do start to believe it, then it won't ever come to fruition.
Therefore, my prediction is that Robert will get closer and closer to Renault. He'll do one more test. Then another. Then another. Impressive lap times will get leaked to the press. The Renault PR machine will wax lyrical about the Pole's consistency and general pace. Robert himself will claim he is confident in his abilities. After a month or two, Renault will announce that Robert will get a drive in Friday practice. Maybe even two or three of the wretched things. He'll do very well in these outings.
In the meantime, Jolyon Palmer's confidence will disintegrate. He will continue to fare horrendously against Hülkenberg, making more and more mistakes as his position within the team comes under pressure. Renault will exacerbate this, constantly expressing their disappointment and telling him to up his game. He will get benched on the Fridays to make room for the increasingly-hyped Kubica.
The season will come to an end. Hülkenberg will score somewhere in the realms of 45 points, while Palmer will score fewer than 5, possibly even a big fat duck egg. Rumours will fly around the paddock. Uncertainty and doubt will remain above the Englishman's head throughout October, November and December. Kubica, by now, has become an established paddock figure once again.
In early January, Renault will call a "surprise press conference honhonhonhon". Hülkenberg will be present as lead driver. Cyril Abiteboul will be there too, of course, as will Bob Bell, Nick Chester and Rémy Taffin. Abiteboul will do the bulk of the talking, with the technical trio explaining how the R.S.18 will be "revolutionary". Nico will talk about his hopes and praise the car's development. Cyril will then bring the big guns to the stage: Jérôme Stoll and even the big man himself, Carlos Ghosn. Sergei Sirotkin will be announced as reserve driver and take to the stage as well.
Finally, as the clock strikes x o'clock, the lights will die down. The smoke machines will begin to do their magic. An elaborate light show will dazzle the crowd of the finest motorsport journalists who could be arsed to make their way to rural Oxfordshire on a cold Tuesday morning. The spotlights will focus into a Renault logo-shaped rhombus around a slowly opening door. The Mazurek Dabrowskiego will begin to play. The cameras will start to flash as a back-lit silhouette steps forward out of the shadows.
Finally, in his Frenchiest of accents, Abiteboul will loudly proclaim:Cyril Abiteboul wrote:Ow-er second driver for ze 2018 sizzen is...
...the silhouette steps into the light, becoming a recognisable human being and ultimately revealing...Cyril Abiteboul wrote:NICHOLAS LATIFI!
Loud dance music plays, Latifi joins Abiteboul, Hülkenberg, Bell, Chester, Taffin, Stoll and Ghosn at the nicely- laid-out PR desk. He answers all the press questions. Two days later, the racing world has forgotten about the Robert Kubica hype. "This was always going to happen", they all say.
"This was always going to happen..."
I'll be honest I expected it would be Charles Pic.
But I'm content with this alternative as well
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I have no regrets.
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Now of course, unless they suddenly put Kubica into every Friday session from now until they feel they can sack Palmer, Sirotkin would presumably replace him rather than Kubica. But how about a curveball: Sebastien Buemi? Has won all around him since leaving F1.
I do feel a bit sorry for Jolyon. He's not Sterling Moss, but he's far from the worst driver to sit in an F1 car.
Also, do FIA Super Licences ever expire? I know they didn't for a good long time, but I'm not sure if they changed that when changing the qualification system for it. Cos if they do expire, Kubica doesn't actually have one anymore, does he?
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Enforcer wrote:Also, do FIA Super Licences ever expire? I know they didn't for a good long time, but I'm not sure if they changed that when changing the qualification system for it. Cos if they do expire, Kubica doesn't actually have one anymore, does he?
I'm pretty sure it's only effective for one year. It's got to be less than three, anyway; any driver that's been out of F1 that long has to either have the required 40 points or to have done 300 km of running in a current F1 car.
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Enforcer wrote:
I do feel a bit sorry for Jolyon. He's not Sterling Moss, but he's far from the worst driver to sit in an F1 car.
No, but he IS the worst driver currently on the grid. And he's in his second year. If he was a Red Bull young driver, he'd be long gone.
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Wallio wrote:Enforcer wrote:
I do feel a bit sorry for Jolyon. He's not Sterling Moss, but he's far from the worst driver to sit in an F1 car.
No, but he IS the worst driver currently on the grid. And he's in his second year. If he was a Red Bull young driver, he'd be long gone.
I don't think Ericsson is better qua pure talent, but he's more reliable.
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