Re: Crazy Idea. Kubica as Sirotkin Race engineer.
Mehryar
14 January, 2018 17:05
He is in talks to take a role but an engineer? That sounds like a long shot.driving and engineering behind the scene are 2 seperated parts...drivers hardly (in new era) have much of an impact on that side.from what you read through their interviews and radio conversations, they mostly ask for this result in car behaviour or that behaviour.
The process and things to be changed for what a driver asks for is done and decided by the engineer.I for one doubt any driver on the grid knows as much as his engineer about how to setup a car these days.
So whether he wants to stay as a reserve/test/development/whatever driver or he wants to switch to become a race engineer.
Hopefully it won't be a driver mentor role.he is going to waste his self time with that role and brings in zero effect imho.Driver mentors like Wurz, or Stroll's one proved there's no gain in that...I can remember Rosberg echoing that.you can not learn how to turn by listening to your mentor (his dad in that case)...other things are based on data about where a driver loses time where to brake harder and those stuffs which needs a race engineer.
Btw I wonder why Williams doesn't announce Sirotkin.DiResta is going for another series, Kvyat is in Ferrari, Pascal is told to be sent for a seat supported by Mercedes in another serie and now Kubica is out.there is no one else do what's the point? You can not take more money when there is only one option on the table.