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From: Rick Moseley (ramosel pacbell.net)
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| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 04:17:12 -0800 (PST) | |
Wow! We'll see if all the talk about Valteri's skills being wasted in inferior cars has merit. As long as he beats Hamilton... Felipe Massa’s retirement from Formula 1 could go down as one of the shortest ever – less than a month – as we have learned that the veteran Brazilian has signed a deal to remain with Williams for another year, allowing Valtteri Bottas to replace Nico Rosberg at Mercedes. Sources in Brazil indicate that Massa signed a one year €6-million deal offered by Williams on Monday, 19 December, which means he will line-up on the grid at the season opener in Melbourne as teammate to Canadian teenager Lance Stroll. To release Bottas, for an engine barter fee said to be between €10 to €12 million, Williams needed to sign an experienced driver for a number of reasons. One of them being Martini’s title sponsorship. The brand is not allowed to use athletes or entertainers for promotional activities who are under the age of 25 as per law in several countries – including the UK. Thus having 18 year old Stroll alongside another young driver or rookie would mean that the main sponsor of the team could not use either of the two drivers for publicity purposes. Furthermore it is believed that Stroll’s deal with Williams, bankrolled by his billionaire father Lawrence Stroll, stipulates an experienced drive be the youngster’s teammate for mentoring purposes. Massa ticks both boxes. It is believed that Massa’s extension remains provisional and will only be confirmed when (and if) Mercedes conclude and confirm a contract with Bottas. On Monday, Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda made it clear that Mercedes are still pondering which route to go with regards to their second driver, “We expected to make a quicker decision, but the discussions proved difficult.” “There are two scenarios: either we get a young guy like Wehrlein, who could be a Verstappen of the future or not, or we get an experienced guy, but we’re still deciding, there are a lot of discussions,” added Lauda. The Austrian F1 legend also hinted that the decision to confirm Lewis Hamilton’s teammate could drag into late January. Meanwhile, in the wake of today’s announcement that Pat Symonds is quitting Williams, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Mercedes technical chief Paddy Lowe is set to leave the World Champion team to join the Grove outfit. To sweeten the Bottas deal for Williams, Mercedes is prepared to waiver Lowe’s ‘gardening leave’ requirement as per his contract with the team. In victory you deserve Champagne In defeat you need it! Scars are Tattoos with better stories ! If you follow all the rules You miss all the fun! If you have no enemies, you have no character ! Clyde Romero Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail ( including attachments ) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U. S. C., Sections 2510-2521, and is intended only for the persons or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, copying, forwarding or distribution is prohibited. This email transmission, and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it, may contain confidential information that is priviledged. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the information containes in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by reply e-mail at Clyde.romerof4 [at] gmail.com or by telephone at (678 6419932)and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading them or saving them to disk. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options, please visit: http://lists.ferrarilist.com/mailman/options/ferrari/ramosel%40pacbell.net Sponsored by BooyahMedia.com and F1 Headlines http://www.F1Headlines.com/ |
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Bottas to drive for Mercedes clyderomerof4, December 21 2016
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