The BMW Sauber driver Nick Heidfeld, faces losing his drive if he can’t up the pace to compete with Robert Kubica his team-mate.
Hans-Joachim Stuck, a former German racing driver, thinks that with BMW now starting to catch-up with the top teams, the team boss Mario Theissen will now be considering his drivers for 2009 and Heidfeld is not performing as well as his team-mate Kubica.
He said ” If it continues like that, he could lose his seat. I can well imagine that, to keep the progress moving forwards, BMW Sauber may decide they need a more vigorous force. Mario Theissen knows how this business works - he will already have made some links to the superstars. There will certainly already be secret talks. Nick is important from a German prospective, but he is not a superstar. It is a difficult situation for him.”
Kubica, on the other hand seems to be a superstar in his eyes, he said “I could not even imagine Theissen replacing him with Raikkonen. He has absolutely the right stuff to be champion.”
Kubica has out-performed Heidfeld at every Grand Prix this season so far, but only last week Heidfeld insisted he did not feel under pressure to up his game from the team.
He said to a German news agency after the Turkish Grand Prix “He is only four points ahead of me. The season is long. I will get him. I will work on my driving, and warming up my tyres faster. But there has been no criticism by my employer.”
The team head to Monaco this weekend with a specially designed aerodynamics package which should maximise the downforce of the BMW Sauber, let’s hope it’s the modification that will keep Heidfeld in his cockpit.
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