Driver Transfer NewsMclaren complete driver line-upMclaren have announced their driver line-up for the 2006 season with Juan-Pablo Montoya and Robert Kubica joining Heikki Kovalainen. The signing of Kubica and Montoya has cost the team £30m.
Red Bull opt for experienceNew team Red Bull have opted to go with experience by signing six-time world champion Michael Schumacher for the 2006 season. The fee being a cool £22m.
Renault retain BarrichelloRenault have opted to retain the services of Rubens Barrichello next season and the Brazilian will race alongside Fernando Alonso in 2006.
Honda recruit OatleyHonda have paid £15.5m to secure the services of Neil Oatley as technical director for the 2006 season.
Signing after next race
Available drivers (name, salary, age)Takuma Sato £18,000,000 28
Jenson Button £13,000,000 25
David Coulthard £10,000,000 34
Lewis Hamilton £5,000,000 20
Nico Rosberg £4,000,000 19
Frank Montagny £3,000,000 27
Patrick Friesacher £3,000,000 24
Neel Jani £2,000,000 21
Adrian Sutil £1,000,000 22
Yuji Ide -£4,000,000 30
Nicolas Kiesa -£4,000,000 27
Gianmaria Bruni -£5,000,000 23
Jacques Villeneuve £7,000,000 34
Pedro De La Rosa £5,000,000 34
Bjorn Wirdheim £2,000,000 25
Michael Ammermuller £2,000,000 19
Jan Magnussen -£5,000,000 31
Narain Karthikeyan -£5,000,000 28
Timo Glock £4,000,000 23
Christian Klien £2,000,000 22
Alan van der Merwe £2,000,000 25
Andre Lotterer £2,000,000 23
Enrico Toccacelo £2,000,000 26
Loic Duval £2,000,000 22
Lucas Di Grassi £1,000,000 20
Karun Chandhok -£2,000,000 21
Christijan Albers -£3,000,000 26
Alex Wurz £4,000,000 31
Nico Hulkenberg £2,000,000 17
Scott Speed £2,000,000 22
Kamui Kobayashi £2,000,000 18
Jan Charouz £2,000,000 17
Nicolas Lapierre £2,000,000 21
Ryan Hunter-Reay £1,000,000 24
Bas Leinders -£3,000,000 29
Cristiano da Matta -£4,000,000 31
Dario Franchetti £4,000,000 31
Sam Hornish £2,000,000 25
Jerome d'Ambrosio £2,000,000 19
Allan McNish £1,000,000 35
Alexandre Premat -£1,000,000 22
Antonio Pizzonia -£3,000,000 24
Signing after next race
Available Engineers (name, salary)Rory Byrne £19,000,000
Robert Taylor £5,000,000
Sam Michael £4,000,000
Alex Hitzinger £3,000,000
Aldo Costa £18,000,000
Simone Resta £5,000,000
Laurent Mekies £3,000,000
Geoff Willis £5,000,000
Mike Coughlan £4,000,000
John Owen £10,000,000
Gabriele Tredozi £3,000,000
Gary Anderson £4,000,000
John McQuilliam £4,000,000
Gustav Brunner £4,000,000
Signing after two races
Available drivers (name, salary, age)Jarno Trulli £12,000,000 30
Vitantonio Liuzzi £4,000,000 23
Jos Verstappen £4,000,000 33
Scott Dixon £3,000,000 24
Tiago Monteiro £3,000,000 28
Olivier Tielemans £2,000,000 20
Jamie Green £2,000,000 22
Zsolt Baumgartner -£3,000,000 24
Pastor Maldonado -£5,000,000 20
Giorgio Pantano -£6,000,000 26
Signing after two races
Available Engineers (name, salary)Ross Brawn £20,000,000
Peter Prodromou £5,000,000
Mario Almondo £4,000,000
Jörg Zander £3,000,000
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/2021 09:55AM by JohnWarrington.