Red Bull Racing Team has announced that it has terminated the contract of driver Scott Speed, giving him the opportunity to find another ride for the 2011 season. Speed has been the driver of the #82 Toyota for the past two seasons, missing a number of races in 2009 because of not being able to qualify the car into the field. The termination of the contract brings to an end the seven year association that Speed has had with Red Bull in other forms of motorsports.
When the team announced mid-season that Kasey Kahne would be driving one of their cars in 2011 before moving to Hendrick Motorsports in 2012, speculation swirled that Speed would be the odd man out. The only way the team would have kept Speed was if Brian Vickers, the team’s other driver, wouldn’t have been able to compete due to complications from heart surgery and blood clots suffered earlier this year. Doctors have cleared Vickers, allowing him to drive one of the entries for the team next season and allowing team management to release Scott from his contract. What do you think of this story? Would you have let Speed go or field a three-car team to keep him?
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