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Could be no Aussie on the grid in 23
Still, Danny Ric has expressed interest in Bathurst and Nascar. Take 12 months and have fun. He can afford it now, thats some golden parachute! Who knows he might unexpectedly find a new passion more fun than f1 I still dream of DR and Mark Weber sharing a car in Bathurst 12 hour or B1000, and I think promoters and sponsors would queue down the street with bags full of aussie dollaroos. Red bull of course have strong ties to both of them and naming right sponsorship of a front running v8 supercar team, and some other categories. |
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He did say something to that effect.
But if he is shuffled out and it is nothing, and he is just kicking round bored at home when he gets a fun (and well paying) offer for a "one off" race. Nascar, bathurst, le mans etc... Anyhow Im still hopeful we will have 2 aussies on grid in 23. I think last tiime we had that was in 13. nice |
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I would say there is 1% chance of either of those happening. Gasly is under contract, Alpine already have a French driver and probably would need to look at someone on a 1yr deal whilst targeting their next lead driver (unless Ocon consistently proves be can be that person) Franz Tost will only run Marko's junior drivers or ones they know well unless there is a major shift in policy? Interesting rumours though... |
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Is that a determining factor? Drivers need 40 points from the last three years to qualify for a super licence, and Colton Herta currently has 32 super license points, so he would need some extra FP1 outings or receive special dispensation from the FIA to be eligible for an F1 seat. So it looks like he is close. |
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Fosters-haas? ( fosters is now owned by Japanese asahi group) Qantas-haas? (Qantas has just reported its 3rd year of gigantic losses) Australia only has 3 types of big businesses 1 - local branches of foreign owned companies 2 - resource mining and the like who dont benefit from sponsorship 3 - service companies serving australia only such as telecom/optus so why would they pay huge dollars to have advertising seen by mostly people in other countries who cant buy the product, and banks wouldnt want to look like they have quite that much of mums and dads mortgage and credit card money to play with so that means its asahi via fosters or Scomo-haas? |
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Wouldn't surprise me tbh. He's stagnating by staying at Alpha Tauri. He doesn't seem to have much chance of going back to RBR, so why not make a switch across?
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He does have a small optus logo on his hat (and maybe his suit
but thats a long way from naming rights of a team Optus F1 besides what sales will they make in azerbajan, belgium france, saudi etc? they dont have any major local motor sport sponsorships so i cant see f1 naming rights as being seen as great ROI |
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Actually Mike they are, now post Covid restrictions, and with travel easier between Aus and NZ, back to racing in NZ, indeed for the next round in less than 2 weeks, and with Pukekohe set to close as a venue due to development plans after this year, Supercars have recently committed to continuing in NZ at an alternative venue.
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