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He far from disgraced himself. Better than I thought he would be.But while he wasn't an embarrassment, unless he had money I can see why they dropped him.
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He far from disgraced himself. Better than I thought he would be.Nope. Wehrlein qualified eight times faster than Haryanto, while he was only four times slower.Antonov wrote:in favour of Haryanto, I have to say he didn't do much wrong.
I feared a new Ide prior to the season, but more often than not he actually matched or outperformed Mercedes protégé Wehrlein (in qualifying).
As an extension to this story, Renault have confirmed it will not be naming any official reserve driver for the balance of the year. (Ocon was of course the nominated reserve whilst on loan to Renault from Mercedes) Any need for a reserve will fall on the head of one of its Test drivers.Rio Haryanto has accepted the reserve driver role at Manor, after being dropped by the backmarker F1 team.
The Indonesian and his state-linked sponsors could not come up with the EUR 7 million he needed to complete the 2016 season, with Manor announcing on Wednesday that Mercedes-backed Esteban Ocon will take his place from Spa.
But Manor said it wanted to keep Haryanto's "F1 dream alive" by offering him a reserve role.
"We are very pleased to continue our support for Rio's formula one ambitions by offering him a reserve driver role for the rest of the current season," said team boss Dave Ryan.
"We very much hope that he will accept that offer."
Indonesia's sports ministry declared in a statement that while disappointed with Manor's decision to drop Haryanto, it "appreciates" that the 23-year-old was allowed to compete without backing in Germany recently.
"We asked to use state budget to finance Rio, but it wasn't allowed by the lawmakers," a spokesman said on Thursday. "The parliament fully supports Rio's involvement in F1 but using the state budget is not the option."
The ministry also said it cannot influence Haryanto's decision to accept Manor's offer of the reserve role.
Manor announced on Thursday that Haryanto has accepted the offer.
Renault says that it will be leaving the role of reserve driver vacant for the remainder of the 2016 campaign, following the departure of Esteban Ocon to a race seat with Manor.
Ocon joined Renault as back-up to Kevin Magnussen and Jolyon Palmer at the start of the season, participating in four free practice sessions in the RS16, as well as a full day of testing.
"One of our lucky drivers already under contract will get the call if needed," Renault stated on social media, referring to stepping in for either Magnussen or Palmer, should the situation arise.
Renault has GP2 racers Sergey Sirotkin and Nicholas Latifi on its books as test drivers, with the Russian having participated in practice in Russia and post-race testing in Britain.
In Motorsport. I am sure she has plenty of uses outside.kals wrote:What, in general?
In motorsport she's Twitter fodder for Marco Sorensen and Ritchie Stanaway. That's about it.DoubleFart wrote:In Motorsport. I am sure she has plenty of uses outside.kals wrote:What, in general?
He's my boss now.