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  1. 1st January 2007, 00:25 #21
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    Yeah! just ask Niki Lauda.
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  2. 1st January 2007, 23:38 #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by jso1985
    Really? from what I know most drivers in the 50's and 60's payed their drives.
    Interesting assertion. "Most drivers in the 50's and 60's payed their drives."

    Citations please!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans
    Don't know where you heard that.

    EJ always says that people credit him with discovering Schumacher, but that in reality he only gave him the drive because he had loads of Mercedes cash.
    I just read in this months F1 Racing that Sauber-Mercedes paid for Schumacher's drive and Merecedes only paid for a third of it, the rest was directly from Sauber.
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    Question

    I wonder how many "pay drivers" went on to eventually become WDC? Lauda and Schumacher are the two I know of. (According to the definition we are using of "pay drivers")
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  5. 2nd January 2007, 02:55 #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikeall
    I just read in this months F1 Racing that Sauber-Mercedes paid for Schumacher's drive and Merecedes only paid for a third of it, the rest was directly from Sauber.
    I have also seen a claim by Peter Sauber that he paid the fee. History is a funny thing, isn't it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by agwiii
    Interesting assertion. "Most drivers in the 50's and 60's payed their drives."

    Citations please!
    don't have citations but weren'r most of them privateers in their own car?
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    the buy in may be a little in the front end - i would not consider MS a pay driver in the slightest. I guess tiago and some dutch guys are. yoong i believe was as pay driver. I don't mind a pay driver too much if they can kick some ass but most are lame at best
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    Quote Originally Posted by jso1985
    don't have citations but weren'r most of them privateers in their own car?
    Most of them? However, this is not the same as a "payed driver."
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  9. 4th January 2007, 18:45 #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by fousto
    I don't mind a pay driver too much if they can kick some ass but most are lame at best
    You mean you didn't rate Gaston Mazzacane or Esteban Truero?

    They weren't so much lame as positively limbless.
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    Taki Inoue missed out on a Minardi drive in 1996 because his Yen didn't appear. Shame, I would have liked to see more comedy.
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