posted Dec 11, 2008

IanB99 - I'm sure you must be delighted at failing to see that no-body here has labeled him as English. Get off your high horse you pompous fool.

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posted Dec 11, 2008

While it would be nice to see another Brit on the grid I can't really see how they would have deserved it. Paffat is a good driver, but something about him just screams out that he is a lifelong test driver or a touring car racer, not an F1 racer.

Di Resta has the talent but he really should be out there in a top junior single seater series showing it! Get him into a GP2 car ASAP!

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posted Dec 11, 2008

could anyone see Jenson button in a force india car as it could happen

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posted Dec 11, 2008

hackerjack DTM is a much tougher series than GP2 certainly was last year. Often f1 drivers really struggle in it as the level is so high. Last year a rubbish driver like Pantano won the GP2 title. Di Resta is 22 i think, the same age as Hamilton was when he started, they should give him a year or two at Force India then replace Heikki with him at Mclaren.

The rest of the drivers available would only be in f1 for a further two years max imo. De La Rosa is very average and old, Paffett is getting on, Fisichella well hes lucky not to be in the scrap heap and Sutil in the wet is mediocre as well.

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posted Dec 11, 2008

Sutil mediocre in the wet is he?
http://www.grandprix.com/race/r773p3results.html

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posted Dec 11, 2008

I meant hes mediocre except in the wet.

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posted Dec 11, 2008

hackerjack DTM is a much tougher series than GP2 certainly was last year. Often f1 drivers really struggle in it as the level is so high.

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You mean like Christijan Albers?

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posted Dec 11, 2008

He never won the championship though. Former top f1 drivers like Ralf,Hakkinen and Alesi have been nowhere in DTM. GP2 in certain years is very good, but theres usually no more than 4 or 5 good drivers.

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posted Dec 14, 2008

Force India have confirmed Sutila and Fisichella.

http://f1.uk.reuters.com/f1/news/India-370248-1.php

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7676066.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A44833386

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posted Dec 15, 2008

hackerjack DTM is a much tougher series than GP2 certainly was last year. Often f1 drivers really struggle in it as the level is so high. Last year a rubbish driver like Pantano won the GP2 title. Di Resta is 22 i think, the same age as Hamilton was when he started, they should give him a year or two at Force India then replace Heikki with him at Mclaren.

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Oh believe me I agree with your sentiments. I am a huge fan of DTM. My point is not whethr it is better or nt but that it is very different.

The fact that as someone pointed out, Albers did well in DTM, while better F1 drivrs did not surely is just pointing to the fact that some drivers have a style better suited to F1 and some better suited to DTM. Being good at one is no guarentee of being as good at the other.

If you want to get into an F1 drivers seat then you have to prove yourself capable in open-wheeled single-seater racing. A driver who does well in GP2 is much more likely to do well immediately in F1 than a DTM driver and vice versa.

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