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I can't decide who I'd like to see at BAR next season. Sato has had his time and it doesn't look like he's got the out and out pace to be champion. So maybe try Davidson?
So lets say Button to Williams. That means there's not enough room for both Heidfeld and Webber. What happened to the Heidfeld to Sauber (BMW) rumours? Now that Massa's gone, that leaves the door open for Heidfeld. And Williams would probably be happy to keep Webber.
oh well... hope he has strong finishes till the end of the season..
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function openwindow(url,title,options) { window.open(url,title,options); }Sato given six races to save drive
Button and Barrichello the preferred choice
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Sato under pressure to perform and score
points in the remaining six races of the year
Takuma Sato has been handed six races to save his seat at BAR Honda and must start to prove his worth in Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix, Nick Fry said today. Sato, 28, who partners Jenson Button, has raced for the team for the last two years but only scored his first point of a difficult season at the last race in Hungary.
BAR have signed current Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello for 2006. "Takuma has from now to the end of the season to demonstrate that he can prove he can perform at a strong level," said Fry. "We hope he can, because he is an excellent team member and as a person we like him a lot. But this is a business and a high level sport and if he can't prove that to us we will obviously have to consider other alternatives."
Barrichello's arrival means one of the drivers in the current line- up is certain to lose his drive and Jenson Button is currently favourite to go because of a deal he signed with rivals Williams at the end of last year. If he succeeds in fighting his way out of that contract he is certain to partner Barrichello, but Fry admitted that if the Briton moves to Williams then Sato's race drive status will still not be guaranteed.
"The situation is very simple in lots of ways," said Fry. "If Jenson stays there won't be a race seat with Takuma, you don't need to be a mathematician to work that out, we have two race seats and two great drivers. Whether Takuma stays with the team after that we will see, I think it is as much his decision as ours whether he would want to stay as a third driver, we could discuss it."
"If Jenson goes then there are no guarantees for Takuma. We have talked to more drivers than I can remember, to be honest, and we are not short of alternatives."
One possibility would be to promote highly-rated test driver Anthony Davidson into a race role after the Briton's patient multi-year wait, but his long-term contract is soon to run out and he is in talks with Jordan and BMW.
Fry admitted that Davidson was 'in with a good chance' of securing a seat and also confirmed that there have been talks with Williams driver Nick Heidfeld over a possible move. But he admitted: "At the moment our complete focus is on getting Jenson and helping him as much as we can with that. The alternatives are ones that we don't want to consider because we want Jenson."
Nick Fry... everytime i look at him on tv, make me want to fry him on my stove
Good face for radio?
Sato fans, please justify to me why he should keep the seat?
Others in worse team do better them him.
Heldfeld, Coulthard, Massa etc.
And you can't just use "mechanical failure" as a reason, thats only been what 3-4 times this year?
dunno hey, I dont know why I like him.. maybe combination of him as japanese and Honda as a japanese manufacturer
also we are his fans and ofcourse we want him to be on the race :D no matter how badly he is doing.. as long as he is a japanese and he is in honda :)
Its weird though, I feel in no way the same about Webber that you and other Sato fans feel for him.
Sato in Honda is like Fisi in Renault and Barichello in Ferrari. They all show good pace but somehow they end up underachieving. They do well and then something happens and the car breaks or they get taken out or make a mistake.
Definitely time to give someone else a go in the Honda. That thing's starting to look like a bit of a weapon. Kinda making the same progress they made at the end of last season.
In my view, Fisi and Rubens are doing far better than Sato in comparison. He just doesn't seem to get anywhere to begin with.
Ron Dennis also denies they're in talks with Michael for a drive at mclaren...
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Raikkonen pledges future to McLaren
‘I'm completely happy with my team’
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Kimi Raikkonen
McLaren driver Kimi Raikkonen on Thursday pledged his future to the British Formula One stable, pouring cold water on reports he had signed a contract for rivals Ferrari.
"There's no doubt we have the fastest package, I'm winning races and I'm feeling well in the team, so why would I even consider changing teams?"
Raikkonen said after a report in Germany's Bild newspaper that the Finn had signed a precontract to race for Ferrari in 2007.
"Surely, I'm in a position most of Formula One drivers want to be in," said Raikkonen. "I want to win races and world championships with McLaren. Ever since I came into Formula One, there have been speculations about my future, so there is nothing new for me. As I've said many times, I'm completely happy with my team."
McLaren boss Ron Dennis said Raikkonen and fellow team driver Juan Pablo Montoya were there to stay.
"McLaren is locked in a battle for the drivers and manufacturers championships and everybody in the team from the drivers to the mechanics is 100 percent focused on this.
"We anticipate long term relationships with both Kimi and Juan Pablo and consequently, the team is not in negociations with any other driver, including Michael Schumacher," concluded Ron Dennis.
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clears up some rumours then doesnt it
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Schumacher ‘no problem’ with Raikkonen
As his team-mate at Ferrari in 2007
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Could they be team-mates in 2007 at Ferrari?
Germany's seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher claims he is not opposed to having Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen as his Ferrari team partner for the 2007 season.
The 36-year-old Schumacher has always been the undisputed number one with the Italian team - with a lesser known driver providing back-up rather than competition - but he insists he would not be afraid of having the capable Raikkonen as his Ferrari wing man.
"I would have no problem driving with him (Raikkonen) at Ferrari," Schumacher said in the Berliner Morgenpost.
Mercedes star Raikkonen, 25, recently denied a report in German newspaper Bild that he had signed a pre-contract to race for Ferrari in 2007. It is still unclear whether Schumacher plans to continue racing in 2007 with his manager Willi Weber revealing a decision would not be made until early 2006.
"Michael will decide between March and April 2006 whether he will drive in 2007," Weber informed Bild daily.
Schumacher lies 40 points behind Spaniard Fernando Alonso in the world championship standings but insists he is not angling for a move from Ferrari when his contract expires in 2006.
"I want to state that I am still happy at Ferrari regardless of the results at the moment," Schumacher told his homepage www.michael-schumacher.rtl.de. "I am also not thinking of leaving Ferrari and joining another team. To be honest I do not know how often I have said that but nothing changes."
Schumacher was recently linked with a move to McLaren - where he would link up with Raikkonen - after meeting with the team's sporting chief Norbert Haug.
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