Luca Badoer Finally Gets Ferrari Drive

Ferrari just needs a driver that can get points.

Bourdais or Piquet would do fine.

I think the problem is that if Ferrari makes another driver change now, they can't make another one (for Schuey, for instance) this season as each team is limited to four drivers per season. So I guess they'll be staying with Badoer for the time being...

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Originally Posted by Hawkmoon

If not Badoer, then who? I've no love for Badoer but Ferrari must be sure that whoever gets the drive for Spa doesn't have to go through a similar learning curve.

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As you say Piquet Jr.and Bourdais are available and they can get Fisi given that Force India owns them money and it would help them to free up the seat for Liuzzi.

IMO Piquet Jr. would do well when teamed with a race engineer like Smedley.

I think Bourdais is the best choice possible.

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Originally Posted by ioan

One thing we know now is that this Badoer guy was certainly not responsible for developing the great Ferrari racers.
His reputation as a great test driver has just been shot to pieces. Both him and Ferrari can only own up to the disgrace we witnessed today. :(

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Lets leave his pace out of the question. If he was a ty test driver who doesnt know anything, why would Ferrari have had him for over 10 years?
In anycase, drivers have very little to do with improving the cars, the engineers are for that.

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Originally Posted by Shalafi

And your thoughts now?

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He should hide in a corner for 2 months for posting something so unbelieveably stupid.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Lets leave his pace out of the question.

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Yeah, let's talk about missing 90% of the apexes and braking zones and the amount of hilarious mistakes he made in only one race. he's making Yuji Ide look great!

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Originally Posted by ioan

Yeah, let's talk about missing 90% of the apexes and braking zones and the amount of hilarious mistakes he made in only one race. he's making Yuji Ide look great!

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Again, you understand nothing about the point I was making.
His performance today was stupid (especially letting Grosjean overtake him in the pits, then get penalized. That was embarrassing), but you questioning his test-driving ability because of it "outperforms" even Badoers performance today.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Again, you understand nothing about the point I was making.
His performance today was stupid (especially letting Grosjean overtake him in the pits, then get penalized. That was embarrassing), but you questioning his test-driving ability because of it "outperforms" even Badoers performance today.

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Maybe he's test driver abilities were better a few years ago but right now I think he's abilities as test or race driver are pretty much useless.

What is it worth the data on some parts when the test driver only takes a corner with 150kph while the race drivers do it with 170kph or more? Not much, really.

He's out of his comfort zone.

Would've done a bit better had he been racing in Silverstone or Barcelona.

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Originally Posted by ioan

Maybe he's test driver abilities were better a few years ago but right now I think he's abilities as test or race driver are pretty much useless.

What is it worth the data on some parts when the test driver only takes a corner with 150kph while the race drivers do it with 170kph or more? Not much, really.

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i did see a graphic during the race where Luca's apex speed at whichever turn they were monitoring was a matter of 4kp/h down on Kimi's.

plus he doesn't test at Valencia, he has pounded thousands of laps at the same circuit that he knows every braking point and apex in his sleep. hes a good tester, but the step to racer is too great