Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
There is no correlation between driver's speed and their ability to develop a car. Some of the best test drivers never achieved anything on world level (Philippe Bugalski, Mark Higgins, Bryan Bouffier, Roman Kresta) while some top WRC drivers haven't understood their cars at all.
Reminds me of plenty of Japanese motorcycle testers, who were fabulous with testing, and feedback; but when getting wild card entries to race, they weren't fast. It can be a special skill, which not all can do.