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Formula 1 2017 Season |OT| Japanese Horror Story - Sundays on Sky
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Not without buying someone they couldn't.
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[B]Rank Name Pay Salary/Winnings Endorsements Sport[/B]
#1 Cristiano Ronaldo $93 M $58 M $35 M Soccer
#2 LeBron James $86.2 M $31.2 M $55 M Basketball
#3 Lionel Messi $80 M $53 M $27 M Soccer
#4 Roger Federer $64 M $6 M $58 M Tennis
#5 Kevin Durant $60.6 M $26.6 M $34 M Basketball
#6 Andrew Luck $50 M $47 M $3 M Football
#6 Rory McIlroy $50 M $16 M $34 M Golf
#8 Stephen Curry $47.3 M $12.3 M $35 M Basketball
#9 James Harden $46.6 M $26.6 M 20 M Basketball
#10 Lewis Hamilton $46 M $38 M $8 M Auto Racing
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#14 Sebastian Vettel $38.5 M $38 M $500 K Auto Racing
#20 Fernando Alonso $36 M $34 M $2 M Auto racingbrotkasten
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Sebastian Vettel has reportedly been issued with a deadline to make a decision on his future with Ferrari.
The four-time World Champion is out of contract at the end of the season and, according to German publication Sport Bild, Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne wants Vettel's future to be resolved by the Italian Grand Prix in September.
Vettel has been linked with a move to Mercedes in the off-season, but Ferrari technical chief Mattia Binotto fully expects him to extend his stay with the Scuderia.
http://www.planetf1.com/news/vettel-given-deadline-on-ferrari-future-report/
It's a tricky situation for him. I could imagine him wanting to stay, if he's going to win the title and leave if he doesn't. At least it should be clear whether or not he has a chance to win the title by September. Then again, losing it by a couple of points would hurt even more.
The four-time World Champion is out of contract at the end of the season and, according to German publication Sport Bild, Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne wants Vettel's future to be resolved by the Italian Grand Prix in September.
Vettel has been linked with a move to Mercedes in the off-season, but Ferrari technical chief Mattia Binotto fully expects him to extend his stay with the Scuderia.
http://www.planetf1.com/news/vettel-given-deadline-on-ferrari-future-report/
It's a tricky situation for him. I could imagine him wanting to stay, if he's going to win the title and leave if he doesn't. At least it should be clear whether or not he has a chance to win the title by September. Then again, losing it by a couple of points would hurt even more.
Patrick S.
Banned
FTFY
Nah. Vettel can be a baby in the car, but he's one of the funniest blokes away from the circuit.
He very much enjoys privacy, doesn't do social media etc. I can respect that.
While I would assume, that it is the other way around, I agree that it is a tricky decision.
brotkasten
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I still think it would be incredibly shitty of him if he'd leave Ferrari, because he won the title with them. He wouldn't deserve it.
Maybe he doesn't want to do sponsor visits and other dumb PR stuff. I mean, he makes almost 40 million a year, it's not like he needs the money. I bet the 500k is just for wearing Bose headsets or some brands sunglasses or something.
Well, he is driving for the history books, that's his main motivation. How many drivers won titles with three different teams?
And about "deserving"... I don't know. He had to go through some really rough parts with FER before they became competitive. I don't know if one could really see it as unthankful or something.
Patrick S.
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Oh, I actually do like him, but I know he rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But yeah, he probably does prefer having some time off instead of doing extracurricular stuff like filming ads or what have you.
xrnzaaas
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Yep, exactly. Him and Kimi do a lot of dumb stuff anyway for Ferrari and sometimes you can tell by how they behave how much they love it.
darkinstinct
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How many drivers have more than 5 titles with Ferrari? If he wins this year (and that should be clear by September) he will stay. I can see him switching to Mercedes ahead of the next major engine revision, because they will be the best team then again - if they are still in F1. But I am sure he looks at Alonso. Or Schumacher from 1996 to 2000. If you stick with Ferrari, you'll be rewarded. If you leave, your career might be over. If there's one constant in F1 it's that Ferrari will win their next championship.
Dutch Gronk
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German Jesus won't leave us*.
*Unless we trade him for Lewis.
*Unless we trade him for Lewis.
Tennis is the anti-F1, then, in terms of the balance between endorsements and prize money. Or is that just Federer, because his name is so valuable but he's not been winning *that* much recently (although he's definitely been on a little bit of a resurgence over the past year)?
dl77
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I don't know if I've misunderstood your post but Ferrari haven't won a drivers championship in a decade and haven't won a constructors title in 9 years. I'm not sure where the 'stick with Ferrari and you'll be rewarded' bit comes in?
I started watching F1 in 1995, ferrari didn't win anything for over 12 years when I watched my first race. They had the 27 and 28 numbers and they were the team on their way out.
...then a few years later the 1999 season came along.
EDit: just to clarify: i'm not saying they will be dominant again, but sooner or later they will probably win the WDC or WCC.
More than half of the current teams have won more than one championship in the last 20 years and of those all but Williams are either contenders or temporarily embarrassed/rebuilding. I'm not sure why Ferrari is special in this regard.
dl77
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Oh yeah, I'm sure that at some point they'll come good, probably this season let's be honest. As someone who's watched F1 since the late 80's though it's weird to have this assumption that sticking with Ferrari is great when, Schumacher years aside - when they had a lot of advantages over every other team let's be honest - they've only won one other drivers title in nearly 35 years!
JadedWriter
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I will honestly be shocked if Vettel doesn't win this years championship.
dl77
Member
Never gonna happen. I'm sure the sponsors would love it but the manufacturers wouldn't. They want the best driver out there and someone who's just good enough under them to still score lots of points for the constructors but not take them off their lead driver.
Hamilton, Alonso & Vettel are probably the best drivers out there but you don't have to look very hard at their behaviour in the past to see how badly they take losing. If you had any combination of those three on your team you'd spend 90% of your time firefighting.
RaySpencer
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He said switch, so I assume he means having Lewis go to Ferrari and Seb going to Merc. Not both of them in the same team.
Dutch Gronk
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Lewis and Verstappen to Ferrari.
German Jesus and Alonso to Mercedes.
Bottas to Red Bull.
German Jesus and Alonso to Mercedes.
Bottas to Red Bull.
Fox Mulder
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His only competitive options are Ferrari and Mercedes. Those are probably long shots at best that require shuffling from Lewis and Vettel.
Maybe McLaren can do a last minute mercedes engine swap if they're still throwing warnings around.
PdotMichael
Banned
Alonso's time is over in F1.
EarsOfASnake
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He'd be better off taking a pay cut and going to Williams.
I wouldn't discount Renault for Alonso.
My money is on Toro Rosso for the raft race. Hope they broadcast it on Facebook.
Fox Mulder
Member
Renault did themselves though.
Ah didn't know that. Pity, can see them coming good next year. Promising already this year.
brotkasten
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Are we doing this now or do you want to wait until after FP3 again?
You guys should change your bet to something more interesting, like what lap Stroll is gonna put his car into the wall of champions.
Sure lets do it. Even though Hamilton always bounces back after a poor weekend and I expect him to smash it this weekend.
Elvin Atombender
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Bad grip for Ferrari?
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