Wurz leaves mclaren for williams

According to an austrian tv channel Mclaren test driver Alex Wurz will leave the british team for williams. This could mean a lot of pressure already for Nico Rosberg because he has to perform well to keep his seat.
At first Wurz will test on the friday practice.


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good move for him

it also says that mark webber will leave at the end of 2006 and wurz will get the 2007 race seat

McLaren Kicked him out sometime ago because Wurz did ask job from other team(s)..

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

maybe it means alonso and montoya will be the race drivers and raikkonen the test driver at mclaren in 2007

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I'll wait for the official announcement

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Is this official?

Because Autosport carry a similar speculative story this week..



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Pitpass is just speculative too atm, usually they're one of the first to come up with the official stuff in the past...

And nowhere else I've looked seems to have anything about it at all...

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2006 08:02PM by Lemming.

Well the speculation is now on crash.net, so it looks likely

its on F1Racing.net too so I guess its pretty official. Looking Wurz and Rosberg at Williams and Webber and Kovalainen at Renault in 07?

And the slow slide into mediocrity continues for McLaren. Newey leaves, Wurz leaves, Kimi rumored to be leaving. Will Alonzo even have anything worthwhile when he arrives?



"There are some pikeys there at Turn 10 putting tarmac down - what do you think of that?" - Martin Brundle

At this rate I wont be surprised if they're lookin for a new engine supplier by 2007

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You mean also Mercedes leaves? Nobody likes Ron... Hopepully he leaves soon..

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

For Mercedes leave, Ron have to buy the 4*% of Mercedes part of Mclaren?

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> And the slow slide into mediocrity continues for
> McLaren. Newey leaves, Wurz leaves, Kimi rumored
> to be leaving. Will Alonzo even have anything
> worthwhile when he arrives?
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Slow slide into mediocrity? Didn't Mclaren have the best car last year and take second and fourth in the championship, those stats are better than 2004, so surely they are not 'continuing' their slide into mediocrity, merely starting?

The WilliamsF1 team confirmed on Monday evening it has signed Alex Wurz as its official test and reserve driver for 2006. Wurz will be the official reserve driver - who will deputise if either Webber or Rosberg is unable to race - and he will be the team's Friday free practice sessions driver at Grand Prix.

"I'm delighted with the agreement we have reached with Alex," said team boss Frank Williams. "Everyone at Williams believes he will bring significant improvements to the team's performance, on Grand Prix Fridays in particular, and to our testing programme in general."

Wurz has been test driver at McLaren for five seasons, before that he spent three seasons racing for Benetton. Wurz stood in for Juan Pablo Montoya in one race in 2005 and finished third. DTM champion Gary Paffett replaces Wurz as test driver at McLaren.

Where this leaves Narain Karthikeyan - who looked set to conclude a deal with Williams in December - remains to be seen. Williams will launch its new Cosworth-powered FW28 car on 27 January.

its not really that much good news for Wurz, he's just swapped 1 testing job for another, when we all know he really wants to race.

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atleast he'll have the friday practises at williams which he wouldnt if he were to stay at mclaren

id say narain will prob get a non race weekend testing role, bringing sponsor money.

wurz could be looking at a possible race drive in 2007 IMO with webber leaving for renault in a flavio fanboys team.




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> in the championship, those stats are better than
> 2004, so surely they are not 'continuing' their
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Well, I was referring to post season developements primarily, but sure, I suppose we can change it to "starting" the slide to mediocrity. I think we can add Ron's pissy attitude of late to the list of negatives at McLaren right now....



"There are some pikeys there at Turn 10 putting tarmac down - what do you think of that?" - Martin Brundle

"its not really that much good news for Wurz"

it would probably be a bit unrealistic to expect him to have a race drive at Mclaren for 2007

i feel it's a shame that he couldn't get his chance with Jaguar

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