DC in at Renault after Montreal?
That would allow Scuderia Toro Rosso ‘rookie' Sebastian Vettel – who many believe is as good as a shoe-in to replace the Scot at Milton Keynes next year – to make an early graduation to the senior Red Bull concern, with Piquet completing the elaborate game of musical chairs by filling the consequent void at STR, thereby enabling him to continue his F1 apprenticeship in a less high-profile and high-pressure environment.
“Nothing is impossible," the report at motorsport-aktuell.com pointed out.
Meanwhile, a hotel owned by Coulthard in Nottingham has gone into receivership, it has been disclosed. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Dakota Sherwood Park Hotel was placed into the hands of receivers three weeks ago, following a long-standing dispute between co-owners Coulthard and Malmaison founder and Dakota chief executive Ken McCulloch, which could not be resolved.
Accountants for the 13-time grand prix winner – who also co-owns the Columbus Hotel in Monaco, where he is based, with American property developer Peter Morris – had revealed that millions of Euros were ‘missing' from the Columbus accounts, prompting Coulthard to initiate the sale of the hotel. The 37-year old is now understood to have similarly ordered the liquidation of the Dakota Sherwood Park Hotel in Nottingham, to which he is said to have lent ‘hundreds of thousands' of pounds.
“I am extremely disappointed that it has come to this," McCulloch told the newspaper.