|
| Site Partners: | SpotterGuides | Veloce Books |
| Related Sites: | Your Link Here |
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 09:49 (Ref:664705)
|
#1 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,721
  |
Whatever happened to..?
It's astonishing how quickly young drivers in the junior formulae can go from the Next Big Thing to yesterday's news. I offer as examples:
Toshihiro Kaneishi James Courtney Ryo Fukuda Andre Lotterer Peter Sundberg Will we see any of these in top-line single-seater drives, or has the fickle finger of Fate moved on? |
||
|
__________________
Interviewer: "Will the McLaren F1 be your answer to the Ferrari F40?" Gordon Murray: "Hmm... I don't think we have anyone at McLaren who can weld that badly..." 
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 09:51 (Ref:664707)
|
#2 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 1,389
|
courtney is kicking butt over in japan
Lotterer is soing something but not sure what. no idea for the rest |
||
|
|
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 09:57 (Ref:664713)
|
#3 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,721
|
Well, Lotterer in driving for Satoru Nakajimi in Formula Nippon and GTs, but since his brush with Jaguar, I haven't heard him linked to any F1 teams, and his CART opening with JAG seems to have fallen through. It seems odd that, for example, Marko Asmer is testing with Williams-BMW while competing in FFord, whereas Kaneishi, Fukuda and Sundberg all won F3 championships, and appear to be off the F1 radar. Fukuda was with BAR for a while but I think has been dropped.
|
||
|
|
__________________
Interviewer: "Will the McLaren F1 be your answer to the Ferrari F40?" Gordon Murray: "Hmm... I don't think we have anyone at McLaren who can weld that badly..."
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 10:02 (Ref:664717)
|
#4 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 1,622
|
Kaneishi is in his 2nd year of formula nippon, looks like he is stuck in there
Last edited by flor; 18 Jul 2003 at 10:02. |
||
|
|
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 10:10 (Ref:664723)
|
#5 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 2,223
|
Fukuda was quietly dropped by BAR at the end of last year I think. He's currently in FNippon doing not very well (only 1 point after 5 rounds.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 10:55 (Ref:664757)
|
#6 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 674
|
Peter Sundberg tested a F3 car with Nissan engine before the season, but he isnt driving in japanese f3
|
|
|
|
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 11:24 (Ref:664778)
|
#7 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 13,000
|
Heading to Japan isn't a total disaster though, guys like Salo, Irvine, Firman and Frentzen made it to F1 from Nippon, so maybe Lotterer, Kaneishi and Sundberg will get someone one day.
|
||
|
|
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 11:30 (Ref:664785)
|
#8 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 674
|
totally agree with that...especially for lotterer, he will find the backing one day to get to cart...and he´s still very young...
but sundberg is in f3 a bit too long, he was there 5 years i think...but maybethe can get to japanese gt championship, you´re payed for racing there, and dont have to bring money, which is definately a good thing |
|
|
|
|
|
18 Jul 2003, 14:32 (Ref:664978)
|
#9 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,721
|
But Formula Nippon - Ralph Firman notwithstanding - isn't the F1 nursery it was in the mid-1990s. Takagi went BACK to Nippon after failing in F1 and is now profitably employed by Mo Nunn in the IRL, but I doubt we'll see him in an F1 car again. Satoshi Motoyama, the runaway championship leader in FNippon, is a career-Japanese driver - doubt he'll race outside Japan. Lotterer might break out, but Fukuda's career has fallen apart badly for a man who won the French F3 title and tested for BAR. Courtney needs to win the All-Japan Formula 3 championship and then get out of Japan - F3000? Dallara Nissan? CART? - if he wants to progress.
|
||
|
|
__________________
Interviewer: "Will the McLaren F1 be your answer to the Ferrari F40?" Gordon Murray: "Hmm... I don't think we have anyone at McLaren who can weld that badly..."
|
 |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| DC and JV. What happened? | Adam43 | Formula One | 27 | 7 Apr 2005 06:40 |
| What happened to IRL On 5? | Coops | IRL Indycar Series | 4 | 20 Mar 2005 18:52 |
| What's happened to F3-GT? | Gabrielle | National & International Single Seaters | 6 | 4 Feb 2004 12:03 |
| What happened? | kmchow | Touring Car Racing | 1 | 2 Aug 2002 03:33 |
Linear Mode
