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Originally Posted by grantp
Out of interest how many recent (say the last 10 years ish) relatively successful single seater drivers have NOT come to the fore via karting?
Of those, how many have not had big money behind them?
Finally, how many have arrived, run 2 or 3 seasons and then vanished from the scene?
Is the "race career" pattern significantly different to what it was in the era of the early days of FF1600? (So late 60s into the late 70s).
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Dont know the answer to any of that sorry, but i think the days of Jonathon Palmer coming from Modsports, Derek Warwick from Stock Cars, Martin Brundle from Grass track etc has long gone!!
Shame really.
Andrew Jordan went rally crossing first, i think and some decent tin top drivers started out in T- Cars.
More recently, a couple of decent drivers have come via the Nissan GT/ Playstation gaming academy. Jan Mardenborough (?) being the best known, i think. Maybr thst will happen more and more.