In other F1 news, the driver merry-go-round continues with everyone waiting for Ferrari to declare before everyone else can shake down. If Massa is fine to race next year (which seems likely from the general news on the subject) then it looks like it'll be Massa and Alonso at Ferrari. Unsure where Raikonnen in go; would love to see Kimi and Lewis together at McLaren, that would give us some good battles. I do think it's more likely that we'll see Lewis partnered with Nico Rosberg at McLaren because he'll be a lot cheaper than Kimi and would suit Mercedes very nicely. Eddie Jordan commented on the BBC coverage on Saturday that he was expecting to see Brawn GP (also powered by Mercedes) with Button and Rosberg next year but I can't see that happening. I think despite Ruben's outbursts this year the team will keep him on as a pair of safe hands.
Although there may be something in the hint implied by Jordan that Mercedes are not as close with McLaren as they used to be. We have several cars in the field running a Merc. customer engine which dilutes the McLaren-Mercedes relationship and one of those customer teams is leading the drivers and constructors championships.
But off track too, McLaren have announced that they will no longer be producing the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren sports car range in favour of producing their own line of high end cars. That can't have been an easy conversation in the board rooms after six years of collaboration.
However, this is just idle speculation, McLaren and Mercedes have been through a heck of a lot together and I think they'll be together and winning championships together for a long time yet.
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