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I think that comes down to the relationship that Hülkenberg has with Steiner and has demonstrated his adaptability when coming in as a substitute driver.
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The stories about DR and Haas have certainly cooled, even if their new Aussie-founded title sponsor has also yet to be publicly announced.
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Joe Saward was reporting something different a few days ago: "I also hear that there is a massive title sponsorship deal coming soon for Haas from a big American corporation, which will fund the team for at least the next three seasons and perhaps beyond that. One can only guess who this will be, but I don’t believe it is an OEM." |
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The deal is done. The title sponsor is a company that was founded in Australia. The title sponsor is now recognised as being an American corporation. It is a 3-year plus deal. |
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The Australian part was really only relevant as to the possible interest in Ricciardo. But, who knows, maybe we can add Haas to the list of teams not interested in him. Or it's a smokescreen and they signed him up at Spa. |
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Out of interest - if the sponsor is recognised as being an American corporation - would many make the jump to the Australian origins of the sponsor? |
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The reason for the link coming up was Guenther meeting DR to talk about a potential drive pre-Spa. |
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So might that deal be announced at COTA? I would have thought that one factor that shines out from the last year or two is that a driver linked to sponsorship isn't necessarily a good thing,the names Latifi and Mazepin were closely tied to sponsors but points were a bit scarce.There were and are others but Alpine seem quite well supported without resorting to such measures.They are vying with McLaren in the tables so ought to be a reasonable destination for a driver without links to other teams and perhaps this is the downfall of the various academy programmes. |
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e.g. - does the same link exist between 1&1 and having a German driver? |
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As an Aussie there ae very few Aussie started companies that are now US based and that cashed-up and would suit f1 to the extent that Naming Rights would cost.
Rupert Murdoch's News.com/FOX companies network is the only one that easily comes to mind. And fox/news has TV networks (at least pay) in most of the world now Is F1 on Fox pay tv in USA? ITs on Foxtel (Fox) in Australia and Sky which shows F1 in UK are Murdoch owned. I think the skyf1 and coverage (Which Australia takes Would become "the HAAS program" next year? Given USA is a market f1 are desperate to grow rapidly in, and HAAS want to be "The American team" (which was hard with Russian signage and naming rights) there could be something in Fox/news getting into f1 with HAAS "Team America" Last edited by bathurst77; 28 Sep 2022 at 09:27. |
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But this is an Alpine thread..
The discussion of HAAS should be in silly season or its own thread |
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Surely the Murdoch family sold Sky to Comcast a few years ago. And that's an American cable company that is in competition with Liberty, certainly in the States. Sky News is also owned, as far as I know, by Comcast as well. One Australian outfit that is fairly active outside of Australia is Macquarie Bank, which has been hoovering up quite a few companies around the world. |
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Surely they would be more likely to sponsor a Formula E or another EV category than F1? Time will tell. |
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Alpine have fired their head of legal affairs as a direct result of the situation with Oscar Piastri last summer. In her position, Benedicte Mercer was directly involved in the contracts of drivers within Alpine, which included Piastri.
Records (at Company House) show that Mercer was 'terminated' on 8 November 2022. https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/15849...stri-case.html Scapegoat maybe but clearly her function was administration and drawing up of contracts so fair game probably given the merde that it all led to. |
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Interesting find. Does sounds reasonable that someone would need to take the hit.
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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/sz...2023/10404471/
Snip Speaking at Sunday's Abu Dhabi season finale, Szafnauer believes Alpine has come out better from F1's standout silly season saga, because he thinks Gasly is a better driver than Piastri will turn out to be. Oh Otmar, sometimes you should just move on |
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I guess only time will tell on that one. Only a few years ago we had a poster that was telling us that the 'Honey Badger' was a better driver than Max Verstappen would ever become.
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Gasly has looked brilliant at times. This season though, he seems to have gone off the boil somewhat. Whether this is down to car or driver I don't know. I think a change of scenery might do him some good.
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Agree that he should move on though - the whole saga and many of the things that he had to say did not paint Otmar in a good light at all. I actually found it quite interesting that when there were questions about Aston Martin component legality this year, Daddy Stroll didn't blaze away threatening legal action in the way that he's threatened previously - made me wonder if it was Otmar winding him up back then and if without that winding up, he is being more circumspect? Quote:
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One could argue that those coming from a RB designed car will struggle with cars from the Renault/Alpine development path?
On paper it’s a great young line up for a mid field team…should make for an even more interesting battle between Apline v Mclaren next season. |
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Gasly has stagnated at AT. He needed a fresh change, as he knew he was never going to go back to RBR
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