Luca Badoer Finally Gets Ferrari Drive

Ironically he's picked up two separate speeding fines during practice :dozey:

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Originally Posted by christophulus

Ironically he's picked up two separate speeding fines during practice :dozey:

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Well, he needs to take that onto the track! ;)

ClarkFan

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Originally Posted by wedge

Not a great start to Luca's weekend.

According James Allen, Ted Kravitz spotted Luca with a green paddock pass - no pit lane access!

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/ (twitter feed, right hand side of screen)

Kimi came from Formula Renault UK and yet he had to learn the the tracks could keep up with Heidfeld more or less in his rookie year.

No sympathy for Badoer whatsoever.

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Hang on. Raikkonen had a whole winter to get up to speed with the Sauber. Luca's had 3 hours so far and he's already halved the gap to Kimi (who i might add was 1.3 seconds off the lead himself).

Slowly but surely he's dialling himself in. I think he'll make it through Q1 after a solid hour of practice in the morning.

Oh, Ioan, you should be ashamed of yourself. He's been with your team for a decade and you're running him into the ground, it's just not on.

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Originally Posted by woody2goody

Hang on. Raikkonen had a whole winter to get up to speed with the Sauber. Luca's had 3 hours so far and he's already halved the gap to Kimi (who i might add was 1.3 seconds off the lead himself).

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And what about Jaime Algae-something? He did himself respectful in Hungary

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Originally Posted by woody2goody

Oh, Ioan, you should be ashamed of yourself. He's been with your team for a decade and you're running him into the ground, it's just not on.

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No need for that Vietnam War mentality saying everything smells fine in the jungle, when in fact it isn't.

Disappointing performance but not at all hopeless.

Practice don't mean anything, I am sure he will do a great job tomorrow :D

I wish him well. As someone said, he is a loyal Ferrari worker and deserves sympathy at least.

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Originally Posted by F1boat

I wish him well. As someone said, he is a loyal Ferrari worker and deserves sympathy at least.

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His struggles really do highlight a poor interface between the "no testing" regime and third drivers. How is a replacement driver to have a chance if they have hardly been in the car, or in the case of small teams, never been in the car at all? If Badoer were really as slow as he showed today, he would have been useless to Ferrari as a test driver - he would never have gotten the cars close enough to the limit to provide insight about their performance.

Just another argument for allowing testing at race sites, before or after the race weekend, with the 3rd drivers doing the testing. Teams would get real miles with new configurations and potential replacement drivers would get seat time.

ClarkFan

As suspected, Badoer is struggling in a contemporary Formula One competition. Still can't see him making through Q1. But if he does, it would be quite a remarkable progress.

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Originally Posted by ioan

:rolleyes:

This issue has been discussed and cleared several times already, once by Garry Walker a week ago, but it didn't stop you trying to poke fun at me just because I was sure I was right, and now by Tam.

Hopefully you can now put this whole charade to a rest.

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i accept your apology.

no charade, i have accepted the info posted by Tamb with good grace. i'll discuss matters Ferrari with Garry and Tamb in the future seeing as they can be relied upon to discuss rather than just play for points scoring opportunities, even if they can get just as heated as anyone esle here

no fun poked - just a question you never answered - there is nothing more dangerous than 2 sides who know they are right ;) . my apologies for not reading every post on every thread looking for an answer someone else gave to a question.

thanks for fully reading my post and responding in the gracious manner i fully expect from you