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The complexities of the 2013 silly season

The rumours linking Lewis Hamilton's with Red Bull will surely kick off the 2012 silly season. But Jonathan Noble reckons it marked the start of something much more relevant

Whatever Lewis Hamilton's real motivation was for deciding to pop down to Red Bull Racing for a brief 'chat' with Christian Horner in Montreal last Saturday night, one thing is for sure: his actions have kicked off the annual driver market silly season.

Forget the talk that Hamilton's visit was about sorting out a contract (it would be Hamilton's management team, not him, who would do that, and it would not be done at a race track).

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.