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Caterham: 50 lay-offs and Alexander Rossi out

The new owners of Caterham F1 have begun to make changes at the team. Yesterday 50 people from the technical department have been laid off.

Today it was the turn for the drivers, with the American Alexander Rossi, who was attending the Friday practice and competing in GP2, saying goodbye in his twitter account.

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He has already found a seat in GP2 in the Campos Racing Team:

Alexander Rossi replaces Sato at Hockenheim

The coincidence of the GP2 event at Hockenheim and the Auto GP one at Red Bull Ring, a championship where Sato is the leader, has meant that the Japanese driver will miss the German round. Campos Racing has reached an agreement with Alexander Rossi for this round. 

Campos Racing will have a new driver at Hockenheim, next stop for the GP2 series taking place next weekend. An agreement has been reached between the Spanish outfit and the American-born driver Alexander Rossi, and thus Rossi will replace Kimiya Sato – in his first season in the series- at the wheel of one of the Campos Racing cars.

2014 GP2 Series Round 4. Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria. Saturday 21 June 2014. Alexander Rossi (EQ8 Caterham Racing)  Photo: Sam Bloxham/GP2 Series Media Service. ref: Digital Image _SBL6912
His absence is due to dates clash, because both GP2 and Auto GP meetings take place next weekend. Taking into account Sato leads the Auto GP championship his working environment has decided to choose competing at the Red Bull Ring instead. 

Rossi, born on September 25, 1991 in Auburn (California, USA), already knows what is to win in the GP2 Series.

 

 

Fernando Alonso in Williams to meet sir Frank

The Williams Racing Twitter account began the talk this evening with an enigmatic welcome to the Williams factory to Fernando Alonso as he was coming to visit sir Frank.

In the middle of the silly season,  such a tweet left everyone shocked.. Until the same Twitter account explained the tricky sentence with thus:

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And they were right, as the Head of Operations of Airbus, Fernando Alonso,  was meeting sir Frank.

 

Christian Albers to be team manager of the Caterham F1 team new owners

As some sources say in Twitter, it’s a possibility that the  new owners of the Caterham F1 team, to be announced this week by Tony Fernandes, could name Christijan Albers the new team manager.

The pilot, who was also in the bets for a Formula E seat, drove during 2005 and 2007 in Formula One,  and is now in the Kolles team in DTM.

@Rowlinson_F1: https://twitter.com/Rowlinson_F1/status/484027016749268992

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Wednesday 2nd July update
Today has been officially confirmed that a group of Swiss and Middle East investors advised by Collin Kolles have acquired the Caterham F1 team.

Team manager Cyril Abiteboul is stepping down and former F1 driver Christijan Albers is assuming the role.

 

Sebastian Vettel interesting contract clauses

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Some medias have recently written about the contract that Sebs Vettel signed with Red Bull. The lack of good results this year after a 4 in a row championships makes people think and in this clauses there could be some of the reason.

First, Vettel could be renowed automatically if he scores 2 GP wins or finishes 3rd in the pilot’s championship. But these implies such a big change in the car’s performance that now we have to read the following clauses.

Another request by Vettel is that Adrian Newey stays in the team. Some weeks ago the media announced that Newey wants to leave the F1, but this will not happen until 2018 at least.

And now comes the interesting part: from 2013, if the results of the RBR team are mediocre, Vettel has the possibility to sign with another team.

 

Alonso and Hamilton to McLaren

The silly season has officially begun with the McLaren Mercedes Team. They are not happy with their current drivers, and there’s rumors that they are speaking with Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton to make a “flashback” of the  2007 line-up.

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The answers from Ferrari are absolute about Alonso, but Lewis could be considering a come back if Nico Rosberg keeps on leading the Mercedes team..