Will anyone in Indycar ever make it to F1 now???

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Originally Posted by bravefish

F1 will always be regarded as the 'pinnacle' in open wheel racing regardless - if drivers from this series get a chance then great, good luck to them. Is Bourdais wishing he was back in Indycar now the series have merged ? Probably not. But all the best for todays opening race starting from 18th - pretty sad for a guy of his ability...

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Hope you watched the race........

I really don't understand why SUPPOSED "difficulty to drive" seems to be such a great factor for some, even when they don't know what they're talking about. Different cars and different tracks demand different techniques to go fast. Not more or less difficult, but different.

If "difficulty" was such a factor, one might consider a crane operator hoisting a 30-ton girder to the 37th floor of a new skyscraper being built and swinging it into place "on the money."

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Originally Posted by indycool

I really don't understand why SUPPOSED "difficulty to drive" seems to be such a great factor for some, even when they don't know what they're talking about. Different cars and different tracks demand different techniques to go fast. Not more or less difficult, but different.

If "difficulty" was such a factor, one might consider a crane operator hoisting a 30-ton girder to the 37th floor of a new skyscraper being built and swinging it into place "on the money."

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Well that may be fine for you, but I want to see the best drivers in the highest performance open wheel cars.

I used to watch something pretty close to that.

I hope to see something even better in the future.

But how do you judge what that is, other than everyone's individual opinion?

Put Steve Kinser in a Ferrari at Monaco or Michael Schumacher in an Outlaw sprinter at Eldora and the performance by EITHER of them in those settings, IMO, isn't going to be what they're used to. But both are certainly very good race drivers and the cars are certainly high-performance cars.

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Originally Posted by indycool

But how do you judge what that is, other than everyone's individual opinion?

Put Steve Kinser in a Ferrari at Monaco or Michael Schumacher in an Outlaw sprinter at Eldora and the performance by EITHER of them in those settings, IMO, isn't going to be what they're used to. But both are certainly very good race drivers and the cars are certainly high-performance cars.

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I would think that experience in any type of car counts for allot. If you gave Schumi 6 months in a WoO car, wouldn't you think he would have it up to speed?

Might well be the same for Kinser in a Ferrari. Might well be the same for John Force in either one. Might not. We'll never know. But to say one's the BEST over the others is both individual preference and opinion, which everyone is of course entitled to, but should not be represented as FACT.

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Originally Posted by bblocker68

Hope you watched the race........

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I did. And in my mind, there's no doubt that Bourdais made the right decision. In an inferior car, Sebastian was pulling away from one of the (so called) best drivers in the world.

I think that he's better than the car he's got in F1 this season. But a few more performances like that and he may find a home with a better team at some point. He doesn't have time on his side, but last night, he showed that he's got what it takes to be in Formula One.

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Originally Posted by bblocker68

Hope you watched the race........

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I just realized how late you stayed up to watch that. Does momma let you sleep in after this? Or do you have kids by the bed going, "daddy wake up!"?

I feel asleep and watched the dvr before I got out of bed.

Seabass rocked.

Bourdais ran a great race until he had a mechanical error and exited the race. Fewest finishers in an F1 race since the US Grand Prix fiasco a few years ago. I enjoy watching the F1 races, but I find the IndyCar Series to be much more exciting racing. The F1 cars are much more technologically-driven and I wish the IndyCars would up their game in that area...Can't wait for the season to start!

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There is not one driver on this continent that is good to be competiitive in F1.