Although not overly surprising, albeit disappointing,
as this *Keyboard Warrior* personally hoped for the services of thee Incredible
Hulk, nee Nico Hulkenberg to land the second Lotus F1 seat up for grabs, Lotus
has now instead opted for the vast cash reserves of Pastor Maldonado and his Venezuelan
PDVSA Oil money instead to partner the promising Romain Grosjean next year...
Meanwhile some key engineering moves have
taken place - as typical after the long F1 season begins winding down, as long
predicted, Ross Brawn has turned in his resignation letter to Mercedes, effective
Dec 31, with no word on his future plans.
Team Willy (Williams) continues bolstering
its engineering ranks with the key additions of Rob Smedley, Felipe Massa's
longtime Scuderia Ferrari Race Engineer accepting the role of Chief Race
Engineer, whilst Jakob
Andreasen, ex-Jenson Button Race Engineer has accepted a factory role job at
Grove, with former x Chief Race Engineer Xevi Pujolarreportedly
heading off to Scuderia Toro Rosso. But don't expect
to hear the soothing tones of Smedley's voice over Massa's in-car radio as
he'll now be responsible for both cars.
And finally Sauber's Head of Track
Engineering Tom
McCullough will leave the Swiss based team to return to
a UK based Formula 1 squad instead, with rumors of it being Force India, set to
join the likely driving pairing of Hulkenberg and 'Checka, aka Sergio Perez in 2014
while Adrian sutil seems destined for
employment at Sauber, with NO word upon Esteban Gutierrez retaining
his seat, as there's been rumors of the Mexican driver moving to Marussia?
Which would leave Max Chilton on the driver market, amongst others including
Sweden's Marcus Eriksson - which after all, is why they call I-T Silly
Season...
