Simple question really.
Jenson is ready to start his contract talks with Brawn Gp. Now if you were in his place what do you do?
Its become clear the Brawn car has dropped off from the start of the season. They do not have the time and money backing that they had last year from Honda. So why would Jenson as a world champion not want to look elsewhere?
Ferrari and Mclaren have been by the numbers the two highest scoring cars in the 2nd half of the season, Mclaren started from scratch and built their new car with the plan to develop for next year. Ferrari gave up on this years car a while back and started again for next year, so you have to believe those two teams will be strong again.
Jenson might want to keep his eye on the second seat at Mclaren, Kimi is still no where near being signed up and I'm sure Mclaren would love an all british line up made up of the previous two champions, plus they keep the 1 on their car.
There is also Toyota, Renault and possibly a red bull seat, (webber is apparently not safe if a big name were to become an option) All those teams have shown they are capable of fighting at the front.
Brawn needs to hope he has a big cheque book or a generous sponsor, or else he's going to be left with Nico Rosberg and an empty second seat, in a car that wont start next season with a 2 second a lap advantage.

eno wrote on Oct 21^st, 2009 at 3:07am:


Hasn't Ruben's all but signed for Williams? Could all depend a lot on where Mercedes want Nico Rosberg to go.

eno wrote on Oct 21^st, 2009 at 3:07am:


Not so may years ago, the only people who got flight tickets paid for was the "team". Drivers always paid their own travel costs, after all they are paid many times the collective wages of the an entire F1 team (I say team loosely, drivers come and go, a team stays for the long run).

Matt

Well it seems that McLaren have approached Jenson.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8322334.stm

eno wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2009 at 12:07pm:


Could be an interesting move for Mercedes, perhaps ensuring a better deal for Brawn, and reducing the damage recently done in their partnership with McLaren by giving them a chance to sign JB - a very rare opportunity to have the two most recent champions in one team.

Of course then Merc place their driver (Rosberg) as number 1 in with what may be the better team next year.

Craig. wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2009 at 3:01pm:


I agree entirely. Much as it'd be nice to see him stay at Brawn, I don't think he could be blamed for looking elsewhere.

Maybe they could adapt the Rover V8

Craig. wrote on Oct 20^th, 2009 at 2:15pm:


Get a story seriously linking you with a major rival team in all the major press, then ask the relevant people in your current team if they'd like to sit down and have a chat...