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Old 11 Nov 2016, 00:49 (Ref:3687073)   #62
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wnut has a real shot at the championship!wnut has a real shot at the championship!wnut has a real shot at the championship!wnut has a real shot at the championship!wnut has a real shot at the championship!
I take your point on Pirelli tyre management, however once you have overdriven the tyre you are done because the plastics they put in them melt and the tyre does not come back. Again pretty much the skill you need in F3.
On an aside the Pirellis are a nasty gimmick that has no place in racing but that is actually a separate issue.

The F3 regs need cleaning up and possibly "claimer" bits at fixed prices to stop people grossly overspending. Also limit the telemetry and the staff that are allowed at the circuits with the cars.

Anyway, I guess the real point here is that if you are good enough in F3 you are absolutely ready for F1, and you don't necessarily have to have won the championship either, if someone like Herr Marko is happy that you should be in F1 you should absolutely be in F1!

If you can't afford a decent season in F3 you are unlikely to be able to afford multiple seasons in all sorts of make up formulae for getting a superlicence, most of these championships are probably more an engineering competence stamp than a statement of driver brilliance.
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