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[LiamCatterson]

And the musical chair theme continues!

I don't know if Kimi can do better in a Ferrari...this isn't the same Ferrari under the Todt/Brawn era. Lotus shows some good promise and a team which is a LOT more accommodating, especially when that psycho called Montezemolo isn't there. Can't see Kimi moving back to a team which practically kicked him out with a fat paycheck.

I am not seeing it either, I think if I were Kimi, I'd stay at Lotus if denied a seat at Red Bull

[What's Burning?]

Maybe what Ferrari needs is to hire Lewis and have him turn them around the way he turned Mercedes around?

[Hammer278]

Maybe what Ferrari needs is to hire Lewis and have him turn them around the way he turned Mercedes around?

All he's interested in 'turning around' at this stage is Nicole.

Mercedes is a case study of what a business needs to run efficiently...a lot of cash, and a highly motivated top management. Without this a driver is worthless. It's like a good chicken soup....the driver might be an important ingredient to make it great, but without the chicken we might as well skip the meal.

Ferrari has a softie for a team boss and a noisy old dude who whines and talks big based on historical data but seems to be stuck in an old dream he can't escape.

I'm making chicken soup today hence the weird metaphor.

[Jabberwocky]

Bild have reported Kimi going to Ferrari

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[sagi58]

And the musical chair theme continues!

I don't know if Kimi can do better in a Ferrari...this isn't the same Ferrari under the Todt/Brawn era...

Agree that he won't go back to Ferrari; but, don't forget, Kimi won his one and only WDC at Ferrari without Todt/Brawn!

[LRW]

And the musical chair theme continues!

I don't know if Kimi can do better in a Ferrari...this isn't the same Ferrari under the Todt/Brawn era...

Agree that he won't go back to Ferrari; but, don't forget, Kimi won his one and only WDC at Ferrari without Todt/Brawn!

He'd be an ok No.2 for Alonso.

[1Lemon]

http://f1pulse.com/news/2013073174/ferrari-offers-raikkonen-to-rejoin-team-in-2014

[What's Burning?]

Ferrari need a better car more than they need a better driver.

[Hammer278]

And the musical chair theme continues!

I don't know if Kimi can do better in a Ferrari...this isn't the same Ferrari under the Todt/Brawn era...

Agree that he won't go back to Ferrari; but, don't forget, Kimi won his one and only WDC at Ferrari without Todt/Brawn!

It was still basically Todt/Brawns leadership which Kimi was working with....and then it went downhill from there.

Plus, this is bad news for Alonso/Ferrari this year. If there really is truth in this, Alonso will feel threatened (since he's in love with little puppy Massa as his teammate) so I look forward to further destabilization of Ferrari this year.

Hope I didn't sound like a complete a$$hole there, but I really am an anti-Ferrari fan.

[Denthúl]

I thought Todt was still team principal in 2007?

[sagi58]

He'd be an ok No.2 for Alonso.

Stranger things have happened, eh??

I thought Todt was still team principal in 2007?

And you would be right!! I just meant he and Brawn weren't "together" at the time.
I guess I still think of them as "one"!

[sagi58]

...I really am an anti-Ferrari fan.

To each his own, eh?

[What's Burning?]

ESPNF1 Sebastian Vettel says he would rather have Kimi Raikkonen as his team-mate at Red Bull than Fernando Alonso.

Rumours surfaced at the Hungarian Grand Prix that Alonso was in the frame to replace Mark Webber in 2014 after Alonso's manager met with Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. With Horner unwilling to dismiss the speculation it now appears that two of Vettel's main title rivals this season are candidates to join him next year.

Asked who would be his preference as his team-mate out of the two, Vettel replied: "I'd prefer Kimi.

"I need to be careful now, but nothing against Fernando, I really respect him a lot as a driver," he told the BBC. "But I respect Kimi on track, off track, because he has always been very straight with me. From that point of view it would be a bit easier."

Daniel Ricciardo also remains in contention for the vacant seat at Red Bull having impressed the team during the Silverstone Young Driver Test.

[Denthúl]

I don't buy it. He's obviously afraid of Alonso.

[What's Burning?]

GPUpdate Toro Rosso Team Principal Franz Tost thinks that Daniel Ricciardo is not yet ready to drive for Red Bull, the Austrian maintaining that his driver requires another year at the Faenza-based outfit to gain the necessary experience to successfully make the step-up.

Tost drew comparisons with the career of Sebastian Vettel, who is currently the only driver from the Red Bull junior programme to be promoted to the senior team. As well as mentioning that the German’s apprenticeship was made easier by the more relaxed testing rules of the era, he also noted that the goalposts have been moved since Vettel made the move to the Milton Keynes-based outfit; with the future-champion scoring the squad’s first-ever pole and race win at the Chinese Grand Prix in 2009.

“He is not far away from the young Vettel,” Tost told Speed Week. “But one must not forget that Sebastian had the opportunity to get a lot of testing at BMW-Sauber, not only during the winter tests, but later in Friday practice as well.

“The biggest difference between Vettel and Ricciardo is that when Vettel came to Red Bull it was not a winning team, they have grown together. Today, Ricciardo must immediately reach podium places and challenge for wins. Can he fill the vacancy left by Mark Webber? Perhaps the chance comes a year too early."

Summing up, he said: “I personally would rather see him undertake another year of maturation process at Toro Rosso. I mean, we are talking here of Red Bull Racing, the champions for three consecutive years. Daniel has never been on a Formula 1 podium, he has not won a race.”

Does anyone think given this, that a decision has already been reach at Red Bull regarding the second seat?