Roberto Merhi
The Question: Roberto, back in the cockpit for Manor this weekend. A lot of change going on in that team. Can you tell us about the team’s prospects and your own?
What Roberto said: Yeah obviously Manor wants to do a step for next year, to try to be fighting for points every race, every grand prix and they are putting a lot of effort on it and hopefully it goes well. The plan also for me next year is to try to stay in Formula One and trying to see what is the best option out there and yeah we will see. At the moment there is nothing clear yet but we will look in the next few weeks to see what is happening.
What he might have meant to say: People they say to me that about Formula One and I think they are joking, but no I go away for few weeks, I come back and the whole f***ing cast has changed. All parts played now by different people. So I ask Alex Wurz, ‘cos some guys say he’s going to be the boss now. I say: “Alex, are you the boss of me?” And he laughs and says: “Well, yes, but not in the way you imagine. I wouldn’t go there for all the money in the world. And that certainly wasn’t what was on offer.” So now I am confused. Nobody is the same. Unintelligible northern people have been replaced by unintelligible Irishman. The only familiar face I see is Steven Wills but even he has changed with another crazy haircut and beard. He looks like an Action Man doll, only shorter.
