The Silly Season 2013

Every year there are questions marks about some seats for the following season and rumours spread around.
Mark Webber made the first step and decided to leave Formula One for another category...

Vettels new team-mate and Raikkönen's decision 

After everyone knew that the second seat at Red Bull Racing is available almost everyone thought about Raikkönen. Red Bull officially confirmed interest. The other two candidates were the two Toro

Where will Kimi sign?

Rosso drivers Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo, the latter was even suggested by his Australian compatriot Mark Webber and got a chance to drive the tyre test for Red Bull Racing at the Young Driver Test last week. It looks like Vergne won't get the chance and it will be a decision between Raikkönen and Ricciardo. Lotus definitely wants to keep the Finn but at the end of the day it's Raikkönen's decision. It is expected that we will know more in August, maybe before the Belgium Grand Prix..

Sauber struggled financially and is now finally saved - But what will Hülkenberg do?

Nico Hülkenberg expected different things than he saw this year. The team struggled financially and wasn't as competitive as the year before where the Swiss achieved four podium positions. The German driver was obviously failed to be payed by the team in the last months and he canceled his contract. He can leave whenever he wants. Lotus is an option if Raikkönen really leaves the team for Red Bull Racing. Ferrari could only be an option if they will no longer support their Brazilian driver Felipe Massa. A comeback to Force India would be weird but not impossibile. Sutil also hopes for chances at a team like Ferrari or Lotus. At least Sauber was financially saved by mid-July through a Russian partnership. For 2014 Sauber will try to let a now 17-year-old Russian racing driver driving for them. The only thing he need is the license.. 

Another chance for Massa?

Since Alonso joined Ferrari and Massas comeback in 2010 the things weren't the same as before. Especially after the race of the 'team order' in Germany where Massa lost a possible win for his team-mate, he somehow lost the pace.
But at the end of 2012 it seems that Massa could gradually return to his old form where he constantly scored points and sometimes even beated his Spanish team-mate in qualiying.

It has looked like a sequel at the begin of this season where he had a good start with points and podium finishes, despite having some punctures in Bahrain, Felipe Massa qualified ahead of Fernando Alonso a few times.

His problems began in Monaco, where he had both in qualifying and race a same-looking crash. It was later confirmed that only in the qualifying it had been his own mistake.
Problems continued in Montreal: In the wet qualifying he threw his car in the wall and got a bad grid position for the race where he at least got some points.

In Silverstone Massa was also victim of the cars having a puncture. Until then he had a brilliant start, gained many positions, including his team-mate, from 11 to 5. The puncture threw him at the end of the field.
At the last race - the German Grand Prix - the Brazilian made in the first couple of laps an embarrassing mistake and spun while braking into the first corner. Unfortunately the gearbox failed and he couldn't shift back to the first gear following he had to switch off the engine.

But Massa currently has the pace to be competitive and helpful for Ferrari in the Constructors championship.
He just have to be more consistent and his seat won't be in danger.
I think we can expect Ferrari will confirm Massa in October when he found back his consistency, else Hulkenberg and Sutil are possible options for a replacement.

Finally Raikkönen's decision will be the start of the domino effect, the other decisions will be a consequence of this. Let's see what will happen.