Monday 11 September 2017

Predicting who goes where in F1 2018

With the Singapore Grand Prix is coming up this weekend. With recent news from the last month that Sebastian Vettel staying at Ferrari till 2020 and Kimi Räikkönen staying at Ferrari for another season. The main question I am writing on this blog is who's goes where in 2018? with a few predictions of my own.



With Ferrari, Red Bull and Haas are retaining their drivers for 2018. While the other seven teams have either one or no drivers signed yet, so far there is still ten drives available, so lets start with the first team Mercedes.

Mercedes will keep Lewis Hamilton for another season. The second seat is not yet confirmed, it will be properly more than likely that Valtteri Bottas will retain him for another season.



Next is McLaren will keep Stoffel Vandoorne for another season. The second seat is the question either Fernando Alonso will be retain or leave, it will depend on what power-unit underneath the McLaren next season. Its' more than likely McLaren will use Renault power-units next season meaning a more than likely change that Alonso will be retain for another season.



Next is Force India, they will keep both Esteban Ocon and Sergio Perez for another season, despite both drivers collided with each other from the last few races.



At Williams, they will more than likely they will retain both Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll for another season in a strong debut season from Stroll.



At Sauber, will more than likely they will retain Marcus Ericsson for another season. With the recnt news that Sauber will be using 2018 Ferrari spec Power-Units (badged as Alfa Romeo) next season, Pascal Wehrlein will more than likely leave the team and will be replaced by F2 Championship leader and Ferrari Academy driver Charles Leclerc will take his place



Then, there's Renault, Renault will more than likely they will retain Nico Hülkenberg for another season. With uncertainty if Jolyon Palmer remains at Renault next season, don't be surprise that Carlos Sainz Jr. joins the team with sponsorship from Spain.



Finally Toro Rosso, they will keep Daniil Kvyat for another season at least. The second seat will more than likely go to Red Bull Junior driver and current GP2 Champion (now called F2) Pierre Gasly.



Those are just a few of my predictions who will go were in 2018. Some may not happen and some of that will be confirmed in the months to come.

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