We’ve seen rumors that Nico Rosberg is peaking with Ferrari and wants Fernando Alonso to replace him at Mercedes should he leave the team at the end of this season. Who knows if thats true, but it does start fit in considering that Kimi Raikkonen’s contract ends this season as well.
Mercedes have not renewed Rosberg’s contract yet and it expires in 2016 but if you were trying to make a point of how good you may be and raise your stock in the eyes of other teams, then leading the championship is a good way to do that.
Testing this week in Spain has added a new twist to the rumors when current reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein was called up last minute to test in place of Esteban Ocon who was scheduled to be the driver for the session. The team, according to Motorsport, says that they needed a veteran driver in order to assess the upgrades they were testing and that could be the case, but it hasn’t stopped the rumors that it has more to do with the departure of Rosberg than anything else.
The move has now left only two days of testing left in 2016 which will require a reserve driver to be in the seat thus eliminating Lewis Hamilton from any participation at the next test at Silverstone.
The suggestion here is that this was an audition for Wehrlein, he said:
“You always are, you cannot relax, step back, hope or be sure of what happens next year or the next years, so you always need to push.
“You always need to push yourself and make the best out of it.”
The obvious answer to if he would be ready to take Rosberg’s seat should the German leave at the end of the year was a resounding “yes” from Wehrlein. It does bring up the thought og Ferrari and if Rosberg would be a good fit there.
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