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Thread: Is GP2 now more highly regarded?
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30th September 2007, 15:49 #21
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Well Glock is a BMW test driver, Nakajima is a Williams test driver, di Grassi probably will be a Renault test driver and Fillippi will be a Ferrari test driver. The rest are either too experienced or need another season before standing out.
Extremely impressed with the first 43 laps of Bourdais' race
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30th September 2007, 19:52 #22
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I love GP2, drivers like Rosberg, Kovalainen, Speed, and (Of Course) Hamilton, have been promoted. Old F1 drivers like Bruni, Pizzonia and Pantano, have been involed. Also unknown drivers like Karajainen, Niemela and Martinez, are ahowing potential.
In all it makes a great Racing Catergory, very exciting!
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28th November 2007, 23:36 #23
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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
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29th November 2007, 11:46 #24
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I think there's only so many years that F1 can take a handful of GP2 drivers entering the field. GP2's been fun to watch this year, but there's been some erratic driving. I don't even know who's going to be in GP2 next year, but unless the championship's won by someone like Senna I think that the winner would have trouble jumping straight into an F1 seat.
As shown by the list, there have been a number of F3000 successes in F1, but many more didn't really make an impression (Boullion) or didn't arrive at all (Muller, Sospiri other than the Lola attempt).
Just so long as it doesn't turn into the final couple of years of F3000. What did happen to Wirdheim? Last I heard he was doing not too well in Formula Nippon, which isn't exactly a highly regarded series.
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5th December 2007, 13:09 #25
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Are you kidding?!? Nippon is generally held pretty highly, Michael and Ralf Schumacher raced in it, as did Irvine, Frentzen, Takagi etc... Okay that was a few years ago, but when you look at the drivers that have passed through it recently and there is a lof of talent, it's only really in the last 2 years that it has slowed a bit.
As for Wirdheim, I think he is looking towards Champ Car for next year again, but is currently out of a deal.
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5th December 2007, 13:18 #26
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It is also worth looking at the context of where these drivers go, exaxctly...
Those who made it to F1; Danner, Capelli, Modena, Panis, Bouillon, Sospiri, Rosset, Heidfeld, Zonta, Badoer, Fittipaldi, Hill, Comas, Alesi, Moreno and so many more all made it to F1 with smaller teams, and excepting Heidfeld and Zonta, they made it when F1 had 32 or so cars!!!
This is the problem, there's nowhere for them to go. Teams these days are locked-in, and so unwilling to take too much of a risk, hence why drivers like Wirdheim and Bourdais miss out, and drivers like Wilson are swiftly cast out. If F1 still had those 'embarrassing' teams, then we could see drives like Alesi on 1990, or Wendlinger in 1993, or Capelli in 1989/1990 again. Okay, we get the odd performance once in a blue moon, but just look at guys like Fittipaldi in F1, several 4th places with teams like Minardi and Footwork!! Okay these days that's more like the occasional 8th place given the reliability of the top teams, but to finish 4th in a 30-car field in a Minardi is pretty special, and it's a shame we cannot see that sort of performance any more given the restrictive nature of the 12-team rule and entry bond these days...
strong performance.
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