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Esteban Gutiérrez is close to signing with Ed Carpenter.
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And... it's Jordan King in the #20 ECR car, road and street courses:
http://www.indycar.com/News/2018/01/...rpenter-Racing Journeyman European formula driver, could be good, could be meh. Let's see. |
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4 Jan 2018, 18:47 (Ref:3790683) | #129 | ||
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2015: 12th in GP2 Series
2016: 7th in GP2 Series 2017: 11th in FIA F2 Could be worse, I guess. |
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4 Jan 2018, 22:37 (Ref:3790732) | #130 | |
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Bit of an unexpected choice. He seems decent if unspectacular from what I’ve seen. Would rather see rowland than king but ah well. His father was ceo of a supermarket chain here, so I imagine that’s something to do with it.
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5 Jan 2018, 15:49 (Ref:3790854) | #131 | |
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Rene Binder to run 4 races for Juncos, starting with St Pete
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Never heard of this guy (or his uncle Hans for that matter). Where are these drivers coming from, and why?
We'll see him in Toronto I guess. FWIW. I am happy to see some new teams (Juncos, Carlin) jumping in to the fray (yes yes, I know Carlin has two recycled drivers ). |
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King has been a midfield GP2 / F2 driver the last few years. Binder was a GP2 backmarker for several years, he then moved to Formula V8 and was a title contender this year, though that says more about the series than it does about him.
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I can only guess that both are bringing money to their respective rides.
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Last two appointments, King and Binder, marks a poor state of teams accounts IMO. What else can I say... doubt they both would crack it in Lights. Poor |
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Max had a season of Lights under his belt. He knew road circuits already when he turned up in ICS. Furthermore, he started his ICS career as full time driver at Chip Ganassi Racing. it's a different story to what King is going through, IMO.
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King is a better driver so I’m sure he will be fine
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King has got a good benchmark in Rossi, so he should do alright
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csOIfjtNSYw
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Scott without sponsor again. What da hell?
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I'm quite worried about the future of Santiago Urrutia. I wouldn't want him to be stuck for a third year in Indy Lights, while drivers like Binder and ZCD get seats.
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14 Jan 2018, 17:41 (Ref:3792705) | #146 | |
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Man they ought to have a race at Sebring. They look awesome gping through there. Cars do look better too.
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Something is wrong Naburu. I don't see him on entry list to Daytona, his name doesn't pop up on any virtual list for Pirelli WC... Indy Lights again? What's a point?! That one million bucks, if he wins it won't go far. Few ICS races, and you back to square one.
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Urrutia told me he's absolutely not interested in sports car racing.
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Neither King or Binder give much to help the reputation of Indycars. Just looking over the new guys this year, there's not a lot to get excited about is there? We're almost at a point where Formula E's field is as talented as Indycars. Certainly the back half of the field anyway, if you exclude the Penske drivers, Dixon, RHR, Bourdais. Formula E's rookies are Lynn, Jani, Lotterer, Blomqvist. That's some driving talent right there, you'd put them on any sports car team and expect them to win. Indycar... Wickens, Harvey, Kaiser, Binder, King, Veach, Leist. With the exception of Wickens you'd expect them to not finish. |
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