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[What's Burning?]

You think it's not being mentioned because it's a foregone conclusion?

[racechick]

Yep

[andrew]

Raikkonen isn't going to be in F1 next season. He'll be pursuing his boxing career.

[Hammer278]

Yep

You sound pretty sure...I see two big issues with this:

1) Marko is starting to be quite vocal about Ricciardo and his performance, in a positive way...plus he's a Redbull guy. Why take an outsider?
2) Horner was very open about his policy of not having two cocks in a hen house when questioned about Lewis joining Redbull. So he considers Kimi as a hen? I don't think so.

But stranger things have happened.

[racechick]

I'm not sure at all. In fact I think somewhere I said it would be Riciardo. But with the way Lotus are going I wouldn't be surprised I Kimi fled there.

[Hammer278]

Lotus are going very well! Kimi is in the running for the WDC after 6 races, the car is one of the best, and he owns the team just like Alonso owns Ferrari and Vettel owns Redbull. What more does he want?

[racechick]

Well they haven't got much money and their chief designers left, other than that I guess they're ok.oh and there's Grosjean.
I dunno just speculating.

[darwin dali]

Well they haven't got much money and their chief designers left, other than that I guess they're ok.oh and there's Grosjean.
I dunno just speculating.

[vaptin]

Do Redbull actually aim for equal ability drivers though?

[andrew]

Does any team?

[vaptin]

Does any team?

All teams are prepared, to treat unequal drivers unequally, but for some teams, its a bigger deal than for others I think.

Redbull have won the WCC and WDC with Vettel and Webber, 3 seasons in a row, and are leading both this season, as poor as Webber has been doing, bringing in Kimi and unsettling the team plus paying for his ice-creams, and tying to get Kimi to pretend he likes drinking Redbull probably isn't worth it.

[Jabberwocky]

plus no one is really sure how Seb would cope with being pushed as a team mate

[1Lemon]

plus paying for his ice-creams, and tying to get Kimi to pretend he likes drinking Redbull probably isn't worth it.

That in itself could almost cripple Red Bull financially.

[What's Burning?]

Three words, RedBull flavored Ice cream. Oh wait, that's four words.

[1Lemon]

That sounds horrible, although Kimi might open up a new product line for them, so you never know they may take him on; if only to manage their new RedBull icecream range.