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For that you need to get a opportunity to drive. Since Giedo is already paying big bucks, I doubt she will get much track time... Hope she get's it. But I think she had a good chance of becoming a race winner in Indycar, wish she stayed there.

What? Up and down a runway? In a simulator? She's not going to get a proper chance until she finds money. They had Frijns on the same deal last year and he had to scratch and claw for his opportunities. And the ones he got will be taken by vd Garde. Shesbetter off hunting for something in Formula E.

Swiss press says she Simona will do the tests at Silverstone & Abu Dhabi and get FP1 outings at Austin & Abu Dhabi.

Make the most of the chance? By doing what?

Red Bull looking for new engine supplier - Minardi

"According to circulating information, the situation seems more difficult than that and not easy to solve" - Gian Carlo Minardi.

Feb.14 (GMM) World champions Red Bull could be on the market for a new engine supplier.

That is the belief of ex F1 team owner and boss Gian Carlo Minardi, whose former Faenza based team, now called Toro Rosso, is owned by the energy drink company.

Out of troubled engine supplier Renault's four F1 partners, including Toro Rosso, the senior Red Bull team managed the least mileage of all at the recent Jerez test.

Minardi, however, observed that - officially - the Red Bull-owned teams are sending out messages of "tranquillity and calm" about what many others believe is a crisis.

"According to circulating information, the situation seems more difficult than that and not easy to solve," the 66-year-old wrote in a posting in Italian on his website.

"It seems that Red Bull are exploring a possible change of engine for 2015," added Minardi.

He said he has also heard that Renault, struggling to solve the obvious problems with its turbo V6 'power unit', has gone beyond the walls of its Viry factory and is now "shopping" around for technical fixes.

"That has practically never happened before as, quite rightly, Renault has always sought to preserve its technology," said Minardi.

"This news can only feed suspicions of structural problems in the engine that are not easy to solve in the short term.

"Obviously, I hope to be proved wrong as soon as the testing in Bahrain, but undoubtedly we are living through a chaotic time in Formula One," he added.

Red Bull is shit. They won 4 titles with Renault and now they may have a bad season and they wanna get rid of Renault?
Is it because of alternators??

I really wouldn't listen to what Minardi is saying. Remember the traction control claims?

Red Bull want to win, if the engines aren't up to the task I don't blame them if they want to try and find a better solution.

Its down to Renault to up their game.

Or down to Red Bull to build a more reliable car, right?

Renault should buy back the Lotus team and show their capacity. It is kinda disrespectful IMO that after one set back RBR is already willingly to ditch them. Surely Mercedes or Ferrari aren't willing to supply one of their direct opponents? And Honda seems to have a exclusive contract with Mclaren for the upcoming years. It is a bit stupid to ruin a good relation when you don't have any other real options.

Yes Red Bull might have messed up by packaging the car tight, but if they solve the issues and the engine is still pants then they will look elsewhere.

Three of the four teams that use the Renault product fundamentally share common technology from a parent (Red Bull). There is an issue with Renault, no-one is denying that. But. Red Bull (and as a by-product of the technology transfer relationships... STR and Caterham) are pushing the envelope of what the engine should be doing. No other team, or engine is being that aggressive. Lotus included.

As was mentioned on the previous page, this isn't the first time Newey has pushed the envelope and got it wrong. It isn't entirely Renault's fault and we shouldn't simply focus on them as the problem.

For goodness knows how many years Red Bull have been building cars on the very edge of reliability. I've lost count how many KERS issues Seb and Mark suffered (MW especially) and how many alternators failed. Red Bull point blank blamed the alternator issues on Renault, even though they were the only Renault team to suffer from these problems.

Fair point and if memory serves me right, it happened to Lotus a couple of times but constantly to Red Bull.