Mercedes GP Tech Team and Return of Kimi to Williams?

Second post of the weekend, talking about Mercedes GP and who they bring in for the start of 2012 and the return of Kimi Räikkönen to Formula 1 to a rumour at Williams.

First the news at Mercedes GP and that they are hiring former Minardi and Ferrari technical director Aldo Costa, will join the Mercedes GP Team alongside former HRT technical director Geoff Willis, the German manufacturer confirmed on Friday (9/30/11). Costa will be joining Mercedes as engineering director on 1st December. While Willis joins Mercedes after having left the HRT squad recently, and he will work as technology director starting 17th October.

When you look at it, Mercedes GP its looking like a winning team with the personal there got, such as Ross Brawn as a Team principal, won where he went in F1 (Benetton, Ferrari and Brawn), Norbert Haug Vice President, Mercedes-Benz Motorsport won many times at McLaren including drivers championships with Hakkinen and Hamilton, Bob Bell as a technical director at Mercedes who was the technical director at Renault where he won two constructors championships and two world drivers championship with Fernando Alonso, and new boys Geoff Willis (winning with Williams in the 1990s and a period with Red Bull) Aldo Costa (winning those drivers championships with Michael and Kimi and winning eight constructors championships with Ferrari! in that period). Don't forget Michael Schumacher a seven times drivers world champion. So next years Mercedes MGP W03 could be a winning car next year, if things go right.

From two weeks back there was and still is a strong rumour that 2007 world champion Kimi Räikkönen could be at Williams next season replacing Rubens Barrichello. My view it might happen but I doubt it, if he would, he would have been at McLaren, Mercedes or Renault by now. There will be a more than likely chance that Force India driver Adrian Sutil will be driving for Williams next season rather than Kimi Räikkönen, anyway it will be a big shock if Kimi returns to Formula 1, let alone racing with Williams, and Kimi is still only 31 years old.

Anyway, end of blog for now, new post soon. That is all. Bye.