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Ioan, do you seriously think he'll struggle to score ANY points, for the ENTIRE duration of the rest of the season?
This guy isn't Giovanni Lavaggi or Alex Yoong circa 2001. Or Yuji ide.
Oh, everyone else who speaks coherently and in a non-insulting manner, do we have any predictions on qulifying and race positions for Badoer in Valencia?
Quali: 11th
Race: 7th
Renault have Grosjean, Williams have Hulkenberg, Ferrari have nobody.
This is the same team led by a motor mouth who likes to point fingers at others yet his team is currently mismanaged and has to depend on an old champion or clunkers called "test drivers" that cannot be considered able race drivers.
F1 is supposed to be about placing the best in cars and after everything this is what is done by Ferrari?! This is the best they can do.
How pathetic.
He will be around 500ths of a second per lap slower than Raikonnen. Will not get out of Q2 - probably make it out of q3 because can he really be THAT awful?Quote:
Originally Posted by woody2goody
The race will see him driving around and by the end totally exhausted finishing somewhere in the double digits.
Predictions for Luca you say woody2goody:
Qualifying - 19th
Race - 9th
He will push too hard in Quali and have an off in Q1, but will have a good race, get to grips with the car and move up to 9th place by the end.
He'll be aprox 0.5 secs behind Kimi, and based on Alonso/Piquet another combo with 5 tenths between them, Luca will place 13th in quali go for a very long one stopper and being a metronomic test driver will climb to P7 for the finish.
Bosh
I'm not going to be as hard on Luca as some, but there is certainly some truth in what you say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint Devote
Leaving Schumacher out of this, I struggle to think of anyone who might conceivably be substantially better, who is available contractually, race-ready and would be willing to take the seat at such short notice knowing that doing so would probably leave them on a hiding to nothing. After all, no driver is likely to shock the world with their pace in the car, and that could be damaging to an up-and-coming career. Just as Salo was in 1999, Badoer seems like an utterly unexciting but also utterly risk-free choice. If he doesn't do well, so what? If he does, it's a pleasant bonus.
Sato, Bourdais, Piquet Jr., just pick one of them and you are guaranteed to pick a better racer than Badoer.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Understand what you mean. Let's see. Must say I would never have cited Piquet, nor Sato, and hadn't really thought about Bourdais.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Piquet showed good race craft with good moves this season. What he lacks is the confidence in the car in order to push it 100% for a good qualifying lap and IMO Renault didn't help.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Bourdais didn't set the world on fire either but I think he's better than Badoer.
Sato, he did great in the Super Aguri F1, he showed that he has good speed and race craft when he get's his head down and works seriously.
Anyway, Badoer will get a race in the F60 as reward for his almost 10 years as a a devoted test driver. We'll see how he goes.