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Flavio Briatore says he will make a decision on the future of Giancarlo Fisichella around the time of the Italian GP in early September. The veteran Italian is currently on a one-year deal with the team, and has no obvious alternatives for 2008.
There is a lot of pressure to push Nelson Piquet Jr into the race team for obvious marketing reasons, although some in the camp feel that he is not ready and would not represent an improvement over Fisichella.
"I have not decided yet," said Briatore. "I have three or four races to see what is going on. We started in a difficult way with a difficult car but I wanted to see with the performance of Heikki (Kovalainen) as well and then I try to choose the best for my team in the future.
"At this moment, I believe I will decide in September around Monza time. I have the option until September, (so) I don't want to really decide before. It is only the result that makes me decide yes or no in the future.
"I have never bet on anything in my life, so I'm not betting about Fisichella. I don't know."
Briatore said that his mind was not yet in next year, and he wants to finish this season strongly.
"First, we need to look at 2007. Sure, our performance is not what we expect. Sure it's not where we want to be but, you know, the car was late, everything
was late – it's a long story. The fact is that we hope to be fighting with BMW at the end of the season. We have to be realistic because for us McLaren and Ferrari are really, really too far ahead, to be what we hoped to be at the start of the season.
"At the beginning of the season it was really a disaster and little by little we have put the pieces together and the team is performing better. We have some aerodynamic pieces here and we have a big step in Monza, and from Monza we have another step for Spa.
"We are still working to be competitive, to finish the season well before we start thinking about 2008. We are doing our best to look good between now and the end of the season."
Stay on top of the ever-changing face of sports car racing each month in RACER. Peter Brock relates how Audi and Peugeot's diesel duel at Le Mans is changing the technical landscape in our September issue, on sale now.
VIEW HUNGARIAN GP GALLERY HERE
Flavio Briatore says he will make a decision on the future of Giancarlo Fisichella around the time of the Italian GP in early September. The veteran Italian is currently on a one-year deal with the team, and has no obvious alternatives for 2008.
There is a lot of pressure to push Nelson Piquet Jr into the race team for obvious marketing reasons, although some in the camp feel that he is not ready and would not represent an improvement over Fisichella.
"I have not decided yet," said Briatore. "I have three or four races to see what is going on. We started in a difficult way with a difficult car but I wanted to see with the performance of Heikki (Kovalainen) as well and then I try to choose the best for my team in the future.
"At this moment, I believe I will decide in September around Monza time. I have the option until September, (so) I don't want to really decide before. It is only the result that makes me decide yes or no in the future.
"I have never bet on anything in my life, so I'm not betting about Fisichella. I don't know."
Briatore said that his mind was not yet in next year, and he wants to finish this season strongly.
"First, we need to look at 2007. Sure, our performance is not what we expect. Sure it's not where we want to be but, you know, the car was late, everything
"At the beginning of the season it was really a disaster and little by little we have put the pieces together and the team is performing better. We have some aerodynamic pieces here and we have a big step in Monza, and from Monza we have another step for Spa.
"We are still working to be competitive, to finish the season well before we start thinking about 2008. We are doing our best to look good between now and the end of the season."
Stay on top of the ever-changing face of sports car racing each month in RACER. Peter Brock relates how Audi and Peugeot's diesel duel at Le Mans is changing the technical landscape in our September issue, on sale now.
VIEW HUNGARIAN GP GALLERY HERE
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