Driver Transfer NewsFerrari complete driver line-upFerrari have completed their driver line-up for the 2006 season with Nico Rosberg joining Kimi Raikkonen in a race seat and Michael Ammermuller signing as a test driver. This has taken £6.5m out of their budget.
Toyota make market movesToyota have confirmed that they have retained the services of both Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton for 2006. They have also announced the signing of John Owen as Technical Director. The contracts have cost them a total of £29m.
Honda sign SatoHonda have made a big statement ahead of the 2006 season by confirming the signing of current Ferrari driver Takuma Sato for a fee of £21m.
Signing after next race
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
David Coulthard £10,000,000 34
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
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)Ross Brawn £20,000,000
Peter Prodromou £5,000,000
Mario Almondo £4,000,000
Jörg Zander £3,000,000
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
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)Ralf Schumacher £12,000,000 29
Nick Heidfeld £10,000,000 27
Sebastian Vettel £5,000,000 17
Giedo van der Garde £2,000,000 19
Jeffrey van Hooydonk £1,000,000 27
Esteban Guerrieri £1,000,000 20
Sébastien Bourdais £1,000,000 26
Markus Winkelhock -£2,000,000 24
Franck Perera -£2,000,000 21
Vitaly Petrov -£7,000,000 20
Signing after two races
Available Engineers (name, salary)Nikolas Tombazis £17,000,000
Willy Rampf £12,000,000
James Allison £5,000,000
Frank Dernie £4,000,000