Silly Season 2022

[Steve Boyd]

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.

And how many F1 teams over the years have had a midfield driver who could get the set-up right for the star driver to be a winner but when the midfielder left the star was nowhere.

[cali]

And how many F1 teams over the years have had a midfield driver who could get the set-up right for the star driver to be a winner but when the midfielder left the star was nowhere.

Luca Badoer comes to my mind first who was the main test driver for many years.

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[TWRC]

Luca Badoer comes to my mind first who was the main test driver for many years.

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Also de la Rosa for McLaren from the mid to end-2000s.

On the rallying side, Lasse Lampi for Ralliart or Pasi Hagström for Subaru are also good examples I think.