Should Bourdais be in F1?

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Originally Posted by Timber

Are you kidding , IRL is a joke ... Runing around in circle .. Bourdais would win that serie in the first year ...

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Bourdais would be my first pick on the road races, but still guys like Castroneves, Dixon, Kanaan and Franchitti would give him more than just a good run.
And on the ovals Hornish and Wheldon would make short business of him. In fact Bourdais himself has admitted during a pre-season interview, that he's "not the best oval racer in the world".

Back to topic: I still rate him very highly, and ovals are no issue in F1. He has an engineering background and is very entusiastic about technology, so he's predestined for F1. And he'd EASILY bash out Speed and Liuzzi. I'd even go as far to say that he could beat any driver in F1 as a team mate.

You can say that there are a few drivers out there that 'deserve' to drive if F1 but deserving doesn't get you a seat and if he isn't going to drive for one of the smaller teams then he may not get a chance.

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Originally Posted by Komahawk

I'd even go as far to say that he could beat any driver in F1 as a team mate.

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He's good, I think he deserves a place in F1, but he's not THAT good.

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Originally Posted by Komahawk

Bourdais would be my first pick on the road races, but still guys like Castroneves, Dixon, Kanaan and Franchitti would give him more than just a good run.
And on the ovals Hornish and Wheldon would make short business of him. In fact Bourdais himself has admitted during a pre-season interview, that he's "not the best oval racer in the world".

Back to topic: I still rate him very highly, and ovals are no issue in F1. He has an engineering background and is very entusiastic about technology, so he's predestined for F1. And he'd EASILY bash out Speed and Liuzzi. I'd even go as far to say that he could beat any driver in F1 as a team mate.

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Wheldon used to race against bunsen and ant in the lower grades. It's just luck of the draw really.

yes, he should.

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

Wheldon used to race against bunsen and ant in the lower grades. It's just luck of the draw really.

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Luck of the draw, eh. Well he got that one chance and took it. He's one of the best drivers in the series. On the other hand Briscoe also got his chance and he failed miserably, although by then he was actually supposed to use the IRL as a stepping stone for F1.

wenn you see that f1 backmarkers are doing well in champcar what says that of seabass.

better to have bourdais than marco andretti

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Originally Posted by gjalie

wenn you see that f1 backmarkers are doing well in champcar what says that of seabass.

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backmarkers in F1 because they drove for backmarkers teams. That's all.

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Originally Posted by gjalie

wenn you see that f1 backmarkers are doing well in champcar what says that of seabass.

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Are you talking about Wilson? He is a very good driver, he just never got a proper chance in F1