Yeah F1 also needs to be more financially affordable. Back in the day CART came to Denver 2003ish or so. The called it F1 which I thought was odd as I knew it was CART but.... My dad and I parked for free, I got lucky as I was a college student downtown and showed my student ID and they waved me in. We got good seats on a short straight. I have the ticket stub and think they were $25ish each. They didn't charge extra for wandering around the pits and talking to the crews and drivers. COTA in Austin I think started at $500 each.
Brutal article about Hailie Deegan
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I'd really enjoy seeing a study of what and why the top F1 drivers made it to the top. Yeah deep pockets help but are there people who truly "have a knack for driving?" I saw some of the exercise regimens and contract clauses of top F1 drivers and they work out alot, are told what to eat, and told what they can and can't do for fun. I worked for a hotel for seven years and had a knack with sales. Nine times out of ten if someone walked in they bought a room. I even had several people who were walk ins that ended up being regulars due to local business or whatnot. I was told that I could talk an eskimo into buying snow. I worked with many people that weren't good at customer service nor sales at all. Point is can you take a regular joe off the street and get them to F1 performance, even if they give 100 percent all in?
No. They tried that with Scott Speed. Red Bull spent something like $25 million trying to "develop" his "talent". He went nowhere. He even tried to sue Red Bull for $6.5 million for canning him.
Look at Lance Stroll. He would never be in that seat if it weren't for his father owning the team. Yet Alonso is far older, and consistently out qualifies him with the same equipment.
On the other hand, if Nico Hulkenberg had the same equipment as Hamilton or Verstappen, he would be right up there with the best. He's a phenomenal driver that never got a good enough ride to prove it.
A good video I found a while back showed the difference between a GT3 car, a Daytona prototype vehicle and a F1 car at SPA on the kink to the downhill section. The GT3 racecar looked like a model T, and the Daytona prototype looked not much faster. The F1 car was a blur. It's shocking that some people have that kind of ability.
That's a bold statement about a driver who has never even stood on a podium in F1.
Perez handily out-performed Nico at Force India, managing to secure podium positions with a mid-field car, which is why Checo is standing on podiums for Red Bull and Nico is fighting (and typically failing) to secure points for Haas.
He's been in F1 for 14 years. You don't hang around that long in that sport because you stink. Just look at the amount of drivers that have come and gone in Formula 1 in that time frame.
Williams, Force India, Sauber, back to Force India, and finally Renault, over 14 years. You couldn't pick worse rides if you tried.
At any point during that time, had he been with a capable, performing, points winning team, his career would have taken off. Mario Andretti has even said as much.
Finally, someone else!
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