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#51 Nonesuch

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 14:22

OK, but where then was Rubens, who had the same car?

 

To be fair to Rubens, he did win in Valencia and Monza. :)



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#52 InSearchOfThe

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 15:14

It's good that you can blame everything that you perceive being wrong in the world by somebody being a Brit.

Easy ForceTen...Easy..

This was a story I think I heard Robin Miller talk about some years ago. I also believe it's been discussed on the forums before. I'm not saying I'm right, only telling a story of what I remebered.



#53 Force Ten

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 16:37

Easy ForceTen...Easy..

This was a story I think I heard Robin Miller talk about some years ago. I also believe it's been discussed on the forums before. I'm not saying I'm right, only telling a story of what I remebered.

 

Easy ForceTen...Easy..

This was a story I think I heard Robin Miller talk about some years ago. I also believe it's been discussed on the forums before. I'm not saying I'm right, only telling a story of what I remebered.

The story I remember was that they got their two year test driver and a rookie that had almost no worthwhile open top racing whatsoever compared to the other guys coming to Formula One at the time. The guy that had tested for Williams for considerable time was posting a time of sorts. The inexperienced guy came in and within half a day was matching him, ever though hes feedback was, shall we say, challenged somewhat. Sure the engineers wanted somebody easier to work with but the bosses thought that if the guy is that fast without any technical clue and we can help him out in that regard the potential would be so much better. Why on earth did you have to drag in nationality here escapes me. Brazil - 200 million people. GB - 60 million people. Again, which is more marketable?



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Posted 02 February 2014 - 16:42

 Brazil - 200 million people. GB - 60 million people. Again, which is more marketable?

 

For F1? GB, just look at the cars



#55 Force Ten

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 16:46

For F1? GB, just look at the cars

No, I look at the potential for sponsorship. What do the cars have to do with anything?



#56 bub

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 17:02

Perez is not earning 2 million. I can gurantee this, in fact that's not even close, he makes way less than 2 mill

 

 

How do you know this?


Edited by bub, 02 February 2014 - 17:06.


#57 Andrew Hope

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 17:03

This puts my yearly 2013 earnings of $2,386.53 into perspective. Terrible, terrible perspective.



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Posted 02 February 2014 - 17:19

No, I look at the potential for sponsorship. What do the cars have to do with anything?

Yes, and I look at it also. F1 is raced mainly according to European time, almost all sponsors are either European companys or companys who want exposure in Europe, only European manufacturers take part and mostly if not everything about F1 is run in English. With "For F1?" I was reffering to it being mostly a marketingtool towards Europe, eventhou Bernie is trying to expand this to Asia.

 

If a company wanted exposure in Brazil and wanted to pour tens of millions to it there would be better choices to reach that market. Marketing towards South America has mostly been about local companies supporting their countries drivers and thru this driver getting exposure, not so much the team or stickers on the car. For example in Venezuela probably most know that PDVSA is Maldonados supporter, not thru the stickers on the car but thru newspapers and such.



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Posted 02 February 2014 - 17:29

Yes, and I look at it also. F1 is raced mainly according to European time, almost all sponsors are either European companys or companys who want exposure in Europe, only European manufacturers take part and mostly if not everything about F1 is run in English.

So. The curious lack of Italian drivers in Ferrari for last few decades has been because only English teams have nationalistic motivations in hiring drivers? And Williams themselves fired their World Champion for a German guy exactly why? Did they hit their head on a rock and suddenly forgot that they were supposed to favour English drivers and then were cured again when it came an opportunity to hire another English guy again? Mind you, they must have had a serious mental illness thing going on as they managed to hire a Canadian, a German, another German, an English guy and drop that English guy a year later for a freaking Colombian! Then an Australian and another German! And a German/Finn. And a Brazilian! And another German. And a Japanese! Then a Venezuelan guy came by. And another Finn. And a Brazilian again. Somebody obviously didn't get a memo.

 

Interestingly during the last twenty years Williams has had more than twice as many Germans driving for them as Englishmen.

 

Another edit. Oops, forgot an Italian that liked steel brakes.


Edited by Force Ten, 02 February 2014 - 17:42.


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#60 st99

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 17:49

How on earth can Tevvel eally be paid less than anyone?

 

I know Newey wins everything for them, but surely a multiple world champ deserves better!

 

That's the base salary, with all the bonus for victories and the WDC last year, I'm pretty sure Vettel was paid at least double of what is written there (If I remember correctly RB bonus for victory was near the million)



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Posted 02 February 2014 - 18:10

So. The curious lack of Italian drivers in Ferrari for last few decades has been because only English teams have nationalistic motivations in hiring drivers? And Williams themselves fired their World Champion for a German guy exactly why? Did they hit their head on a rock and suddenly forgot that they were supposed to favour English drivers and then were cured again when it came an opportunity to hire another English guy again? Mind you, they must have had a serious mental illness thing going on as they managed to hire a Canadian, a German, another German, an English guy and drop that English guy a year later for a freaking Colombian! Then an Australian and another German! And a German/Finn. And a Brazilian! And another German. And a Japanese! Then a Venezuelan guy came by. And another Finn. And a Brazilian again. Somebody obviously didn't get a memo.

 

Interestingly during the last twenty years Williams has had more than twice as many Germans driving for them as Englishmen.

 

Another edit. Oops, forgot an Italian that liked steel brakes.

Waited for your edits before answering...

 

No I don't think teams in general have nationalistic motivations but rather monetary. Every decision is a balance between the teams own needs, competitivnes and sponsors. All situations differ so you can't look at it as a long line of nationalities.

 

Ferrari, would they get more exposure in Italy if they had an Italian driver? I don't think so, they need the best because they are expected to win and they are supported more as a team then individual drivers. On the otherhand a major sponsor supporting a great driver...

 

Williams and the Venezuelan at a monetarely difficult time. A frenchspeaking Canadian with a legendary name when dominating with Renault...

 

I think that in every decision the driver, his capabilities and nationality is a consideration and the end result is defined by the teams own needs, its current sponsors requirements and possible new sponsors. Currently those who bring new sponsors with them are called paydrivers but those who are chosen because they represent an area current sponsors want exposure to aren't eventhou the same applies to both.



#62 Force Ten

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 18:24

Waited for your edits before answering...

 

No I don't think teams in general have nationalistic motivations but rather monetary. Every decision is a balance between the teams own needs, competitivnes and sponsors. All situations differ so you can't look at it as a long line of nationalities.

 

Ferrari, would they get more exposure in Italy if they had an Italian driver? I don't think so, they need the best because they are expected to win and they are supported more as a team then individual drivers. On the otherhand a major sponsor supporting a great driver...

 

Williams and the Venezuelan at a monetarely difficult time. A frenchspeaking Canadian with a legendary name when dominating with Renault...

 

I think that in every decision the driver, his capabilities and nationality is a consideration and the end result is defined by the teams own needs, its current sponsors requirements and possible new sponsors. Currently those who bring new sponsors with them are called paydrivers but those who are chosen because they represent an area current sponsors want exposure to aren't eventhou the same applies to both.

So what you are saying that hiring a 20 year old Button was not because of him being particulary good but because of him bringing money? As that was what riled me up from the post that started all this bullshit - he said it was because he was English. I found it idiotic that they managed to hire exactly two Englishmen during the last 20 years and NUMEROUS other nationalities, and BOTH of those Englishmen are World Driver Champions, and only ONE driver they have hired that was NOT Englishman has managed to do the same. Yet the ENGLISHMEN (one of them anyway) were hired for their nationality apparently, and others, dunno, maybe, like, talent.



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Posted 02 February 2014 - 18:42

The story I remember was that they got their two year test driver and a rookie that had almost no worthwhile open top racing whatsoever compared to the other guys coming to Formula One at the time. The guy that had tested for Williams for considerable time was posting a time of sorts. The inexperienced guy came in and within half a day was matching him, ever though hes feedback was, shall we say, challenged somewhat. Sure the engineers wanted somebody easier to work with but the bosses thought that if the guy is that fast without any technical clue and we can help him out in that regard the potential would be so much better. escapesWhy on earth did you have to drag in nationality here  me. Brazil - 200 million people. GB - 60 million people. Again, which is more marketable?

Calm down dude, again that was the story Robin Miller told. That the sponsor wanted a British driver..I didn't just make this up. Like I said earlier, I could be wrong. Maybe JB was a better long term choice. Not sure why you're getting your panties is a bunch. I got no beef with the redcoats.


Edited by InSearchOfThe, 02 February 2014 - 18:43.


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Posted 02 February 2014 - 18:44

So what you are saying that hiring a 20 year old Button was not because of him being particulary good but because of him bringing money? As that was what riled me up from the post that started all this bullshit - he said it was because he was English. I found it idiotic that they managed to hire exactly two Englishmen during the last 20 years and NUMEROUS other nationalities, and BOTH of those Englishmen are World Driver Champions, and only ONE driver they have hired that was NOT Englishman has managed to do the same. Yet the ENGLISHMEN (one of them anyway) were hired for their nationality apparently, and others, dunno, maybe, like, talent.

Well I jumped into this discussion from the which one is more marketable, UK or Brazil and pointed out that UK. I don't think of him as a paydriver but I could understand that nationality was a consideration.

 

Williams main sponsors were Compaq, Nortel, Intel, Bridgestone, Reuters and Castrol. Year 2000 UK had a GDP/ capita of around 3-4 times that of Brazil (http://www.tradingeconomics.com/) and it was the internet/3G/dotcom era.

 

A young promising exciting driver from the area sponsors wanted exposure towards, I think it is impossible it didn't play any part in the decission. I'm not saying it was the main or only reason but it certainly would have helped.


Edited by Module, 02 February 2014 - 18:52.


#65 jjurado

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 18:57

Kimi had a base salary of $5MM euros en 2013 plus a bonus per every point, every point was said to be worth around $50MM euros, this would be $9,150MM plus a bonus of $1MM per race win and he gotone so his total salary in 2013 was  $15,150MM euros.

 

If he will cash all of it I don't know but after earning that I doubt his salary for 2014 would be less than in 2014. I have read in a few places that his salary for 2014 is paid by shell and it is $20MM euros which sound a lot more accurate.

 

Maybe he has a base salary of $10MM euros plus a big chunk in bonus and this article is stating that base salary, anyways I don't think it is accurate to be writing aboiut their total salaries if they don't know how their bonus is or if they have something else negotiated in their contracts.