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22 Oct 2007, 11:51 (Ref:2047774)
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Nakajima Faster than Alonso?
Fastest laps of Brazillian GP
5th Nakajima 1.13.116 6th Alonso 1.13.150 7th Rosberg 1.13.159 Now I know that he ran over some people, but other than that, I thought he was impressive. He passed more cars on the track than anyone else, except Hamilton and his fastest lap was quicker than the worls champs and his teammates. Hopefully not a one off drive. |
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22 Oct 2007, 11:53 (Ref:2047779)
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Despite his pit lane mishap I thought he did rather well this weekend. He certainly provided some action.
Will be interesting to see if Williams promote him next season to a race seat rather than just testing. |
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22 Oct 2007, 12:02 (Ref:2047802)
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I think he'd be better off testing next season. He's obviously fast, but his pitlane error shows he's probably not really ready to move into F1 yet. Another season as test driver would probably benefit him, but if Toyota want to push him into a race seat I'm sure they can do that.
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22 Oct 2007, 12:03 (Ref:2047805)
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I read somewhere (perhaps Autosport, I don't have a link) that Sam Michaels was really unimpressed with his qualifying performance but that his race performance more than made up for that and more. Michaels also said that Nakajima would be in an F1 pilot in the future - but how soon in the future he couldn't tell.
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22 Oct 2007, 12:15 (Ref:2047817)
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That lap came during the closing laps with no presure whatsoever and on supersofts, great lap nevertheless but I think that was pretty much the only thing he impressed with in a point-worthy car. He didnt represent the slightest threat to his team-mate, well off the pace on saturday, finished like a minute down on Rosberg on Sunday, plus had some questionable moves during the race (altho i think the clash with DC was clearly something DC shoulda appologize for, an abolsolute dumbo move by the Scot)
All in all, Yamamoto had the 7th fastest race lap here in 2006 with an underdeveloped Super-Aguri car, allegedly being the 2nd fastest guy of the whole field in the 2nd sector during the race, yet, something tells me it would be a mistake judging him based on that lap. If anything, he was rather slow in Interlagos this year (to be fair, there is not much to do when someone joins the race-line from the grass ahead of you like Fisichella did...trully a penalty material but thats another thread) |
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22 Oct 2007, 12:27 (Ref:2047830)
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All good points.
We will just have to wait and see if he can cut the mustard. |
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