Vettel: ‘I’m racing three cars, including Kimi’

[Monty]

Ferrari have fired drivers for this level of dissent!
https://www.planetf1.com/news/vettel-im-racing-three-cars-including-kimi/

[cosworth151]

I wonder how much Vettel has to do with the reports that Kimi will be replaced by LeClerc?

[lkjohnson1950]

The only time he "races" Kimi is in Q3. And let's be honest, Seb usually wins that battle. If he had let Lewis by and re-passed him later, as Kimi did, he probably would have won. Ferrari would have botched Kimi's strategy or done a slow pitstop , or if worst came to worst said "Kimi, Seb is faster than you".

[Dare]

Really,what's there to follow in F1? A bunch of over paid
arrogant jerks you wouldn't want to hang around with. If
Kimi is gone I'll have to consider if I want to watch these clowns next year.

[John S]

Hey Dare you love F1 same as the rest of us so why give up because of a simple half wit statement. There's more to it than this, don't give up cos one voice is nonsense.

[Alianora La Canta]

This is why I tend to watch the midfield and not the front, because the front tends to be monotonous, but dressed up in an attempt to make it look less predictable than, say, 2000 (which is statistically less predictable at the front than 2018). If the top 3 teams left F1 but agreed to continue providing engines, there'd be a good series there. However, F1 feels it needs those teams far more than those teams need F1, which gives Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull all the power.

Third cars to the only three teams that could afford to field them would simply make things even more monotonous at the front and make it more difficult for the gap to be bridged.

[guest3164]

I wouldn't want to not see Ferrari in F1, but I could live without a factory Mercedes team and Red Bull.  I would want Ferrari to play by the same rules and funding as the independent smaller teams but that won't happen.  I do agree teams like Mercedes and Renault should just go and be engine providers, it would make things more interesting, but even then there would probably be a 'preferable' customer and then others who get less good deals.  Maybe we just need 10 (preferably more) teams all using Cosworth engines.  Spec engines but different cars, sounds more exciting to me!

[Dare]

I wouldn't want to not see Ferrari in F1, but I could live without a factory Mercedes team and Red Bull.  I would want Ferrari to play by the same rules and funding as the independent smaller teams but that won't happen.  I do agree teams like Mercedes and Renault should just go and be engine providers, it would make things more interesting, but even then there would probably be a 'preferable' customer and then others who get less good deals.  Maybe we just need 10 (preferably more) teams all using Cosworth engines.  Spec engines but different cars, sounds more exciting to me!

Trouble is if you want Mercedes and Renault as strictly
enging providers you'd have to include Ferrari as well

[Robem64]

Possible announcement today (Thursday 6th Sept)

https://autoweek.com/article/formula-one/ferrari-kimi-raikkonen-expected-reveal-2019-plans-early-thursday

[guest3164]

Trouble is if you want Mercedes and Renault as strictly
enging providers you'd have to include Ferrari as well

Good point well made.