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Comments from WilliamsF1
Technical Director Sam Michael appear to support the view that the
WilliamsF1 team will keep Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg as the team drivers
for the 2007 season.
 Technical
director Sam Michael said: "The driver decision will be Frank's, but the
most likely thing is to continue with the two drivers we have for next year.
"All the options are in Williams' favour as things go. Frank will make his
choice when the time is right. I can't see anything else he'd do."
Mark's contract runs out at the end of the year but the team does have an
option on his contract but the team must make a decision to exercise this
option prior to the Hungarian Grand Prix.
As for relationship between Mark and Nico after their on track moment that
would see Nico hinder Mark's qualifying lap that would see him dropped in
the first group of drivers. Nico has said that there is not an issue between
the pair.
On the Castrol web site Nico wrote: "The new qualifying system has thrown up
some controversial sessions so far this year with drivers being accused of
holding each other up and using spoiling tactics.
"Both myself and my team-mate Mark Webber have been on the receiving end of
such incidents already.
"Unfortunately on the Gilles Villeneuve circuit we were part of the same
one. During the first session Mark was on his flying lap and I was on my out
lap when he came up behind me.
"I was a fraction of a second too late moving out of his way, it cost him
only around one and a half tenths of a second and he ended up qualifying
back down the grid.
"It was really unfortunate, but in reality it wasn't as big an issue as some
people outside of the team have made out. We've spoken about it since and
I've said sorry." |
