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I'm really impressed with the forthcoming season's grid. It looks like the Proton lineup will contain two established international stars, replacing a geriatric adn a relative nobody. Gary Ayles has been a good talent scout in the past - Wallace looked pretty useful in the Astra, and Butler-Henderson should be as well.
As Jonny points out, guys like Thompson and Plato raised a few eyebrows when they got works drives, but they were winners very quickly. Luke Hines could be the same.
It's a shame when guys like Pyper can't get rides, but not many works deals exist right now, and the independant teams have to take funded drivers to balance the books.
Apex's penultimate paragraph seemed strange to me. Both situations he suggests involve 18 well-prepared cars driven by talented drivers, so what's wrong with having a few backmarkers out tehre. They provide action further back and the odd surprise, as well as a bit of grass-roots enthusiasm, so what's the harm?
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