If I was Sir Frank Williams at Williams who is the second driver for 2018?

Interesting times at the Williams F1 Team, the recent news that Felipe Massa has retired from Formula 1 at the end of this season, while Lance Stroll is more than likely to retain for another season, the team will not announce who will be driving for the team after the Christmas break. Meaning, the team haven't confirmed their second drivers yet. The five main drivers competing for the one race seats next season are Robert Kubica, Daniil Kvyat, Paul di Resta and Pascal Wehrlein and Sergey Sirotkin. I'm going to talk about each drivers positives and negatives they will bring to the team.



Robert Kubica, positives: a Grand Prix winner, still fast despite not been in a Formula 1 car for seven years, also ideal for Williams title sponsor Martini who is over 25. Missuses: has he recovered from his injures from 2011, which includes his right hand which almost was amputated.



Daniil Kvyat, positives: scored a few podiums in his Formula 1 career so far. Minuses: had two poor seasons for Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso which concluded being fired from his Red Bull contract.



Paul di Resta, positives: test-driver for Williasm for the last two seasons, showed lost none of his speed when he replaced Massa at Hungary after three seasons away from Formula 1, also ideal for Williams title sponsor Martini who is over 25. Missuses: may miss the drive due to his budget he will bring (or none) as there is higher bidders for this drive.



Pascal Wehrlein, positives: have the backing of Mercedes, show great drives in underfunded cars (Manor 2016) or underpowered cars (Sauber 2017). Missuses: may miss the drive due to his budget he will bring in as rumoured that Mercedes will discount their power-units supplies to the team for next season.



Sergey Sirotkin, positives: test driver for Renault F1 team for the last two seasons and he will bring in sponsorship from Russian back company SMP Racing with a budget up to £15 million to the team. Missuses: age, if he signed Stroll will be 19 for most of 2018 while Sirotkin is only 22, meaning the drivers average age for 2018 is 20.



If I was Sir Frank Williams who is the second driver for 2018 for his team? I pick Lance Stroll and Pascal Wehrlein/Robert Kubica for their talent, but the likely happening will be Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin because of sponsorship from Russia via Sirotkin as much as £15 million to the team as they still needs the money to get through 2018, the romantic side of me wants Robert Kubica have a fairy-tale return to Formula 1 as I said before has he recovered from his injures from 2011 from the rally crash and Pascal Wehrlein decisive to drive for a midfield team despite having the backing of Mercedes, at the end of the day money talks.

Time will tell who will be driving for Williams next season in a few weeks time.