Williams F1 team sold

[Flibster]

That's ok. They can use the money that Perez brings to pay the full price for the Mercedes engines then.

 

[cainer]

Cash isn't always key, with an investment firm your interests are also boosting the connections for your other investors including technology tie-ups, access to new markets etc. It's about getting people in a room together talking business while a car is pointlessly doing laps on the other side of a champagne and canape hosted event. Cash into a team is just a bonus, the connections are more valuable.

That's a good point and well put

 

[MissChief]

The thing is, no one can really pinpoint where this suggestion started. The first mention appears to be on some backwater fan run Italian F1 site from what I can see so it’s not very credible.

 

[Mr Jack]

The thing is, no one can really pinpoint where this suggestion started. The first mention appears to be on some backwater fan run Italian F1 site from what I can see so it’s not very credible.

Indeed. It seems more of a silly season rumour than anything else.

 

[this_is_gav]

Time will tell, but Russell's stock has dropped this season, so not hard to imagine. Latifi is running him extremely close in races and Russell has made a number of mistakes, particularly when in decent positions - well for a current Williams.

 

[Mr Jack]

Time will tell, but Russell's stock has dropped this season, so not hard to imagine. Latifi is running him extremely close in races and Russell has made a number of mistakes, particularly when in decent positions - well for a current Williams.

Run him close? Have you been watching a different season?

Russell has beaten him in every qualifying, and only been beaten twice in races they both finished, neither of which came down to Latifi being genuinely faster.

He has made a couple of mistakes but it is only his second season and they mostly happened when he'd put that car where it had no business being.

 

[chrismscotland]

That's ok. They can use the money that Perez brings to pay the full price for the Mercedes engines then.

To be fair I'm sure its been made clear before the Williams do pay full price for the Mercede Engines; its not a Engine - Russell discount deal

 

[MissChief]

To be fair I'm sure its been made clear before the Williams do pay full price for the Mercedes Engines; its not a Engine - Russell discount deal

While I'm not sure if they do get a a discount as you've said, I'm leaning to not. What is happening I believe is Mercedes pays Russell rather than Williams does. According to racefans he's paid around $1m a season.

 

[this_is_gav]

Run him close? Have you been watching a different season?

Russell has beaten him in every qualifying, and only been beaten twice in races they both finished, neither of which came down to Latifi being genuinely faster.

He has made a couple of mistakes but it is only his second season and they mostly happened when he'd put that car where it had no business being.

Latifi is a pay driver who Russell utterly destroyed in his first season in F2 (by a whopping 196 points) which was Latifi's second season, and few expected anything different this year.

Undoubtedly Russell has excelled in qualifying this year, but that counts for nothing if you make key mistakes in races (Styria, Tuscany and Sochi come to mind, and while he was unaffected and not punished for the pile up at Mugello, many put the blame on him trying to get a run up before having to slam on the brakes).

I'm not saying Latifi has excelled, far from it, though he's getting better, just Russell is making the mistakes he might have been expected to make last season rather than this.

Latifi has finished ahead of Russell in 100% of races where both have finished since ownership changed, though that's skewed by several retirements in those races (though I'll add none of which Russell was at fault for, depending on your view of Mugello).