F1 Drivers Moonlighting

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Originally Posted by bella

is one or two drivers a season doing a race with a team they're aligned with through sponsors really that regularly though? i'd like to see it more as well, but with the f1 calendar getting bigger and bigger it's a bit harder to fit something in and do it justice unless you're someone like alonso.

Not really - they don't do testing any more and have the life of Riley compared to their Seventies counterparts .Huge money and a fraction of the risk.

It wasn't unusual to combine F1 with, Indy 500 , Can Am and sports prototypes- and rallying too in Vic Elford's case . But as most people who watch F1 don't seem to have much of a clue about life outside F1 , or the sport's history , they started bleating about diluting the brand and similar guff when Alonso decided to do what his predecessors did .