F1 driver market still awaiting next moves

F1 Driver Market still Awaiting Next Moves

Rubens Barrichello (shown) and rookie Nico Hulkenberg will drive for it in 2010

 Expect Williams F1 to confirm on Monday that veteran Rubens Barrichello and rookie Nico Hulkenberg will drive for it in 2010, but thus far, there have been no more definitive moves in the driver market.

Newly crowned world champion Jenson Button still has not re-signed with Brawn GP, and suggestions persist that McLaren-Mercedes might steal him to partner Lewis Hamilton as Heikki Kovalainen's replacement. McLaren has still not done a deal with Kimi Räikkönen, though the Finn insists that he does not have any other F1 options after agreeing to leave Ferrari at season's end with a year remaining on his contract.

As reported previously, Timo Glock

looks Expect Williams F1 to confirm on Monday that veteran increasingly likely to leave Toyota to join Renault alongside Robert Kubica. That will leave Romain Grosjean without a job and spell an end to the era of the team employing drivers who have a management deal with or are protégés of former boss Flavio Briatore.

With the established top drivers spurning Toyota, and Glock and Jarno Trulli both leaving, the Cologne-based team is now linked with Kovalainen, who McLaren is certain to drop.