Who do you think might replace Nelson Piquet Jr

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Who do you think might replace Nelson Piquet Jr?

  • Romain Grosjean (Renault Test Driver and GP2)

    Votes: 7 20.6%

  • Lucas Di Grassi (Renault Test Driver)

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber First Driver)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Bruno Senna (GP2 driver)

    Votes: 9 26.5%

  • Mark Webber (Red Bull Second Driver)

    Votes: 5 14.7%

  • Giedo van der Garde (Renault Driver Development)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nico Hulkenberg (Williams Test Driver/F3 Euroseries)

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Sebastien Buemi (Red Bull Test Driver)

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Ben Hanley (GP2 and Renault Driver Development)

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Sakon Yamamoto (Renault Test Driver)

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • Other (Post who and your reasons below in fourm)

    Votes: 6 17.6%
  • Total voters
    34
  • Poll closed .
There are also the two Aguri drivers who were left stranded at Barcelona. Sato is rumored to be part of the replacement-shootout...
 
paolopepper
Nico hulkenburg he has great talent and idsay ready for f1!!
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Yeah, but he's testing for Team Willy. Sir Frank might not be overly anxious to let one of his drivers sign to another team. Besides, people said Nelsinho was ready for F1, and look at what we're discussing now. There is no way of truly determining if a driver is ready for Formula One until he's got a few races under his belt. Kovalainen wasn't ready when he first came, but I seriously think he was far more deservng of the title Rookie of the Year than Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton was consistent for the entire season; Kovalainen just kept getting better and better.
 
Do you race?
Hamilton was consistent for the entire season; Kovalainen just kept getting better and better.
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Consistent until the last couple of races, I still can't believe that Alonso and Hamilton lost the Driver's championship.
 
NASCAR's Kyle Busch

He has more raw talent then anyone I've seen in a long time

Very good at developing a car, is never happy with the handling and can communicate to a crew cheif what exactly needs to be changed
 
Kyle Busch would give Formula 1 some much needed personality

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eFil6_IGiV8

Right now Kimi Raikkonen is praised as one of the coolest F1 drivers when he says "It has nothing to do with me." when asked about Montoya's exit to NASCAR

F1 is full of stiffs they need some personality...and that comes in the form of a talented American driver named Kyle Busch. If Scott Speed can do it Kyle can
 
drunk Kimi, DC, webber, sato, alonso, hamilton, even button are defiantly not "stiffs" lol

but why would Busch debut with renault over toyota? that doesn't make any sense since renault isnt that good anymore
 
paolopepper
Nico hulkenburg he has great talent and idsay ready for f1!!
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And idsay you're as ready for a forum as he is ready for F1. :rolleyes:

Earth
Very good at developing a car, is never happy with the handling and can communicate to a crew cheif what exactly needs to be changed
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Alonso will complain about the lack of downforce, and Busch will complain to no end about this brakes (as he did at Darlington).

Kyle might be a great developer of a NASCAR car, but as we all know, those are worlds apart compared to F1 machines. I could just as well say I'm a great developer...

Earth
Kyle Busch would give Formula 1 some much needed personality

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F1 is full of stiffs they need some personality...and that comes in the form of a talented American driver named Kyle Busch. If Scott Speed can do it Kyle can.
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I'm pretty sure the last thing Renault need is more personality. Plus, Scott brought some of questionable quality, and was given the boot. :p
 
I don't know that Kyle is that great an influence. I too heard his radio transmissions from Darlington, and I can say he'd fit in well with Alonso's whingeing!! Seriously, he's right out of the Nigel Mansell school. All that aside, he's carving himself out a really serious wedge of cash in NASCAR. The way he's going at the minute, he's going to be set for life. Playing the villain to the good ol' boys is going to net him 8 figures per annum until retirement. And good luck to the lad: his car control and insouciance are hilarious, and he'd only have that beaten out of him in F1.

Hulkenberg is - in my opinion - the next big thing, but (in accordance with my previous post in this thread) I wouldn't want to see him in a Renault. Also, he's strongly bound to Williams.
 
Earth
F1 is full of stiffs they need some personality...and that comes in the form of a talented American driver named Kyle Busch. If Scott Speed can do it Kyle can
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I think Alonso already provides for all the personality F1 needs. Max Mosley did his part too.
 
Blake
Including certain talented members of the current GP2 crop? :odd:
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Aye. Senna hasn't done enough to convince me that he's got even one-fifth of the talent that people seem to be ascribing to him based on his surname. Grosjean, I'll admit, looks pretty special. But the rest of them? Who else is really convincing you? Note: if you say Pantano, I'll have to break out the rolleyes smiley.
 
Pantano is useless.

Grosjean is the guy who I think could do something special (and since he’s much closer than Nico is to an F1 ride he gets the “next big thing” label for me). I’d love to see him take the title and make the triple-crown of F3 Euro, GP2 Asia, and GP2. That would be quite an achievement.

Senna, well he’s doing a solid enough job. But for someone with the experience (and alleged talent) he has, if he doesn’t win the title this season you’d really have to ask yourself where it went wrong. He has the experience and the car, so he should be at the top of the table (granted, he would actually have some margin if it wasn’t for the dog accident).
 
With 2 points in the bag it doesn't like anybody will be replacing Nelsinho anytime soon!
 
Take Kyle Busch very seriously. He's won both NASCAR events on roadcourses this year. He beat Australian V8 Champion Marcos Ambrose in Mexico and passed Juan Montoya a few days ago at Infineon and pulled out to a 5 second lead over the former Formula 1 ace. He can turn left and right and is proving it by winning every road race this year.



Check out the high five with the official at 4:13
 
Earth
Take Kyle Busch very seriously.
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Talent or no, as Giles said, why should he bother driving for an upper midfield F1 team when he could be raking the money in driving a NASCAR?
 
Plus being good in one series, especially as different as NASCAR, doesn't mean he will transfer well to Formula 1.
 
3,800 lb, low downforce car, vs...much lighter...high-downforce car?

don't seem like something easily interchangeable.
 
Senna is good, but not very. I'm not sure he could make it to F1 at all.
 
Alex.
Senna is good, but not very. I'm not sure he could make it to F1 at all.
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Well, the man on topic did well enough to become Renault's test driver, and he didn't even win the GP2 Series. I think Senna has a good chance, as long as he gets 2nd place or the title of GP2 Champion this year. But don't expect him to perform like Lewis if he does. :)
 

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