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Tommig1995 said:

Currently confirmed driver line-up & their no. for next year:
Red Bull: Kyvat (26) & Ricciardo (3)
Mercedes: Rosberg (6) & Hamilton (44)
Ferrari: Vettel (5) & Raikkonen (7)
Lotus: Maldonado (13) & Grosjean (8)
McLaren: TBA & TBA
Force India: Perez (11) & Hulkenberg (27)
Sauber: Ericsson (9) & Nasr
Toro Rosso: Sainz (55) & Verstappen
Williams: Bottas (77) & Massa (19)

Except Hamilton will have Number 1 on his car not 44 given he'll be the reigning champ

[RevolvingPrawn 1]

sjsharp2010 said:

Tommig1995 said:

Currently confirmed driver line-up & their no. for next year:
Red Bull: Kyvat (26) & Ricciardo (3)
Mercedes: Rosberg (6) & Hamilton (44)
Ferrari: Vettel (5) & Raikkonen (7)
Lotus: Maldonado (13) & Grosjean (8)
McLaren: TBA & TBA
Force India: Perez (11) & Hulkenberg (27)
Sauber: Ericsson (9) & Nasr
Toro Rosso: Sainz (55) & Verstappen
Williams: Bottas (77) & Massa (19)

Except Hamilton will have Number 1 on his car not 44 given he'll be the reigning champ

Hamilton's already said he wants to keep the 44 and not switch to 1 :p Plus it's optional, so if he doesn't want the 1, he won't be made to have it. He could pretty easily incorporate it into one of the 4's though.

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RevolvingPrawn said:

sjsharp2010 said:

Tommig1995 said:

Currently confirmed driver line-up & their no. for next year:
Red Bull: Kyvat (26) & Ricciardo (3)
Mercedes: Rosberg (6) & Hamilton (44)
Ferrari: Vettel (5) & Raikkonen (7)
Lotus: Maldonado (13) & Grosjean (8)
McLaren: TBA & TBA
Force India: Perez (11) & Hulkenberg (27)
Sauber: Ericsson (9) & Nasr
Toro Rosso: Sainz (55) & Verstappen
Williams: Bottas (77) & Massa (19)

Except Hamilton will have Number 1 on his car not 44 given he'll be the reigning champ

Hamilton's already said he wants to keep the 44 and not switch to 1 :p Plus it's optional, so if he doesn't want the 1, he won't be made to have it. He could pretty easily incorporate it into one of the 4's though.O

Oh right wasn't aware of that. I just know that it's normally tradition for the reigning champ to have 1 which was why I said it.

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sjsharp2010 said:

RevolvingPrawn said:

sjsharp2010 said:

Tommig1995 said:

Currently confirmed driver line-up & their no. for next year:
Red Bull: Kyvat (26) & Ricciardo (3)
Mercedes: Rosberg (6) & Hamilton (44)
Ferrari: Vettel (5) & Raikkonen (7)
Lotus: Maldonado (13) & Grosjean (8)
McLaren: TBA & TBA
Force India: Perez (11) & Hulkenberg (27)
Sauber: Ericsson (9) & Nasr
Toro Rosso: Sainz (55) & Verstappen
Williams: Bottas (77) & Massa (19)

Except Hamilton will have Number 1 on his car not 44 given he'll be the reigning champ

Hamilton's already said he wants to keep the 44 and not switch to 1 :p Plus it's optional, so if he doesn't want the 1, he won't be made to have it. He could pretty easily incorporate it into one of the 4's though.O

Oh right wasn't aware of that. I just know that it's normally tradition for the reigning champ to have 1 which was why I said it.

Yea, with the number system before it was. And I'm a little disappointed he won't go with the number 1, but he's wants to keep the 44 as it's his favourite/lucky number, plus when you think of driver number 44 you think of Hamilton straight away right? It's like if I said 46, there's only one person who springs to mind.

I hope they let Hamilton do what the MotoGP riders do, where they can keep their own number and also have the number 1 at the same time.  

[sjsharp2010 225]

Yeah I'd have taken the number 1

[AMSKRR 3]

They should keep their own number, it is all about recognition and branding. If Hamilton took the No.1 and then won the next 4 titles with it, you'd think of 1 before 44. Vettels had the No.1 for over half of his career for example rather than No.5 so most of the images of his cars or his team wear is all No.1.

 I want them all to stick with their numbers.

[MeatbolicX83 0]

I just want the 2016 season to happen. I wanna see the untied states get up in there and kick some ass.

[Gui1 0]

MeatbolicX83 said:

I just want the 2016 season to happen. I wanna see the untied states get up in there and kick some ass.

This team Haas will be a huge fail.
The team's base is in Carolina while it should be in Europe because 9 out of 20 rounds happen in Europe. 

[GoldenColt 1]

MeatbolicX83 said:

I just want the 2016 season to happen. I wanna see the untied states get up in there and kick some ass.

You might have to wait a few decades longer to witness that.

[buttonfan 5]

Looks like no announcement from McLaren until Thursday or Friday

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/no-mclaren-announcement-on-monday/ 

[GoldenColt 1]

This could go on forever. And I'm running out of memes.

[Tommig1995 0]

https://twitter.com/KevinMagnussen/status/539411314415009793
https://twitter.com/AnttiVierula/status/539418929412997120

Anything to be read into here?

[RevolvingPrawn 1]

Not much, but going for a sauna with another man... Bit of a no no in my book.

[Jiggy 5]

RevolvingPrawn said:

Not much, but going for a sauna with another man... Bit of a no no in my book.

But we live in 2014 mate!

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Jiggy said:

RevolvingPrawn said:

Not much, but going for a sauna with another man... Bit of a no no in my book.

But we live in 2014 mate!

Exactly. It might have been acceptable back in the 1950's, but those times are long gone.

[RevolvingPrawn 1]

So, bets on when McLaren announce their 2015 line up? 

Mine is 15/03/15.

[GoldenColt 1]

Ha, optimist!

[RevolvingPrawn 1]

GoldenColt said:

Ha, optimist!

So they're gonna race Australia without drivers? ;)

[VetteIfan 0]

So the Mclaren board meeting that took place today has now finished.

McLaren spokesman : "Today's board meeting has now concluded, and no decision has been taken with regard to our 2015 driver line-up." ._.

I'm with Dan. Mclaren to enter F1's first ever driverless car, Australia 2015. 

[RevolvingPrawn 1]

Utterly ridiculous. Though it's hardly surprising that a team who's tactical race decisions aren't great can't decide which driver to keep.

[JensonBottom 1]

I am so pissed off over that. Make up your stupid mind Mclaren, ugh.

[buttonfan 5]

I won't be surprised if Button gets bored of this and announces he's going to WEC before McLaren announce their line up 

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mike96 said:

I won't be surprised if Button gets bored of this and announces he's going to WEC before McLaren announce their line up 

At this rate I'm thinking that's more likely to happen

[Chadwick8505 0]

It's getting beyond silly now. They just need to make up their mind. It's not even like there's a bad choice, Of the three guys there is arguably no bad combination. Personally I'd give Kevin the boot. I was only impressed by his performance once this year, Australia. Button and Alonso would make great teammates as each would be able to push the other to success and better development of the new car.

[GoldenColt 1]

RevolvingPrawn said:

GoldenColt said:

Ha, optimist!

So they're gonna race Australia without drivers? ;)

Ron Dennis will find a way to explain that in his typical Ron-speak. ;)