Where thou art Rubens?

It's has come to that time of year when most of the seat in F1 are filled and we end up waiting like lost limpets for the last few seats to be filled.

Now we just have two seats that haven't been confirmed.
HRT and Williams.

HRT is always a hard seat to predict. Mainly due to the fact that HRT are dirt poor and they will literally put anyone in that car. If Luca Badoer is not in the car for 2012 I will be shocked.

Joking a side.
HRT will go one of two ways. An older driver who has either been out of F1 for a while or has been bumped out of a team recently. Or will go for a young driver who has a lot of sponsors.
Rumours of  HRT seat filling have included Nick Heidfeld, Jaime Alguersuari and Karun Chandhok.
We might be waiting a while to find out the result of this one.


The other seat still not to be confirmed is that at Williams.
But only two people seem to be up for that job.
Bruno Senna and Rubens Barrichello.
Now Bruno Senna is the one tipped the most for that seat.

But this is where I get a little bit torn.
Don't get me wrong I know that the Williams at this moment in time is not a race winning car.
But I would love to see Bruno Senna in a car from the beginning of a season for once and actually do well.

But the other part of me would love Rubens Barrichello to have just one more year in F1.
Celebrate 20 years and then leave with a bang.
Rather then how he could leave at the moment.
With a whimper and a backlog of tyre marbles.

Rubens, I admit is not what I would really call an exciting driver anymore, plus he is on a salary and Bruno is not. Bruno will and can bring a lot of money and sponsors to Williams.

But Rubens is and has always been the only constant in my F1 life.
I would love to spend 2012 having a huge celebration.
A Rubens Barrichello leaving do if you would.

So to any F1 team out there.
Please give Rubens a job for 2012.

Because the Iceland party platter needs to be brought out in honour.
True story.