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26 Oct 2012, 20:11 (Ref:3158192) | #76 | |
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i'm not kicking you off the forum. you've got a cute fluffy polar bear in your avatar.
being fair tho, it does seem daft, backwards and annoying for anyone of one nationality to support someone from a different country other than their own, but *if* there are potential investors, then i'm sure they have their reasons. actually... what do rich kids *do* in the states? rich sons in the uk go and play with karts, daughters muck around with horses, but what do they do there? |
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29 Oct 2012, 14:19 (Ref:3159553) | #79 | |
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Felipe Nasr and Rio Haryanto with Carlin.
Riccardo Agostini (Italian F3 runner-up), Daniel de Jöng and Luca Filippi (who else...) with Coloni. That's the last time GP2 will see a Coloni car in the track. Daniel Abt and Stéphane Richelmi with Lotus. Kevin Giovesi (who?) and René Binder with Venezuela Lazarus. Glad to see they are looking outward of the socialist country - or just trying to make some money to pay for the ultraexpensive things in Venezuela. |
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Giovesi won the Copa in F3 Open and he drove a part season in Italian F3 and Formula Renault 2.0.
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I like this a lot. Nasr's very good and will get there in time. Haryanto's been rushed up too quickly, in my opinion, but there's some potential there I think. In a Maldanado-esque way, with Haryanto. |
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FINAL LIST: Addax: Jake Rosenzweig and Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Dams: Nigel Melker and Arthur Pic Racing Engineering: André Negrão and Gianmarco Raimondo iSport: Pal Varhaug and Facu Regalia Lotus ART: Daniel Abt and Stéphane Richelmi Caterham: Lucas Foresti and Alexander Rossi Coloni: Daniel de Jong, Luca Filippi and Riccardo Agostini Trident: Marcus Ericsson and Julian Leal Venezuela Lazarus GP: René Binder and Kevin Giovesi Rapax: Stefano Coletti and Daniel Juncadella Arden: Simon Trummer and Mitch Evans Ocean: Kevin Ceccon and Ramon Piñeiro Carlin: Felipe Nasr and Ryo Haryanto Not a bad list, I must say. Fingers crossed expecting for a great 2013 season. |
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Pineiro getting a run out for his birthday?
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Nice to see Kevin Ceccon on the list.
Ericsson testing F3.5 then GP2, still not decided on where to go next year? And he did so in a dominant fashion. He took the class win 11 times out of 14(2 of them were DNFs). He even put a real challenge at the outright classification sometimes, finishing 3rd overall on the dry at Monza. Granted, it's hard to say just how good is the F3 Open field right now, and even more so the Copa class. |
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29 Oct 2012, 20:19 (Ref:3159739) | #86 | ||
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One thing Varhaug has done, though, is get the interest of investors, something Edwards/Newgarden couldn't. I'm sick of hearing that American drivers are "disadvantaged;" you can't be disadvantaged when you're from a first-world country and had the means to drive racing cars. They just didn't hustle hard enough to make it. We can't all have GP2 rides. Varhaug's a tough sell, but he's seemingly selling. The platform of "sponsor me because no one else will" didn't seem to work for the two boys you mentioned. Just my opinion. Nothing against any of them. At least Edwards is getting paid to race and Newgarden might go somewhere in the States. Better they got on with that quicker than wasting their time chasing impossible dreams; Red Bull would have dropped Edwards eventually, and Newgarden couldn't go back in time and not drive for a shoddy Carlin team in GP3's year one. EDIT: I guess this means Varhaug's my new favorite driver. |
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Barcelona day 1 times: http://www.racer.com/filippi-sets-gp...rticle/266042/
Coloni swansong, as Filippi(morning) and de Jong(afternoon) go fastest... |
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31 Oct 2012, 00:18 (Ref:3160391) | #89 | ||
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I think Coloni doesn't care about development work anymore, and they went only quali laps... Beside them, Ericsson, Melker and Richelmi seemed pretty good.
The best newcomer I think is Quaife-Hobbs, he was fast both sessions...but Juncadella's third place is also great, and Rossi... |
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Giovesi was pretty good too, if you keep in mind Lazarus' difficult maiden season.
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6 Nov 2012, 13:44 (Ref:3163357) | #91 | |
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Tiago Monteiro was racing in in Japan but Monteiro's Ocean was on the bench at Barcelona. Peter "TT" Thompson is sniffing in the paddock again. You expect us to believe he was just an innocent bystander?
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Has anyone heard anything about the prospect of there being an American GP2 championship? Various European sources are reporting that preparations are being made.
http://fr.espnf1.com/usa/motorsport/...ce=twitterfeed It would be exciting if it happened, though GP2 Asia wasn't a huge success. The series could support F1 at the Canadian, Brazilian and United States Grands Prix (though the Canadian Grand Prix currently takes place in the middle of the regular GP2 season). When and if F1 comes to New Jersey, Mexico and Argentina, there could also be support races there. Other than that there's the WTCC races at Sonoma and Curitiba, Formula E races in Rio de Janeiro and Miami (not sure how well it would go down though, petrol cars supporting electric). |
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An epic failure I predict, just as with Asian series.
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All it would need to be is better than IRL Lights and Atlantic to survive. Frankly that wouldn't be too difficult and I suspect a load of journeymen Europeans would do it and act as reasonable benchmarks for the Americans etc
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I had shared some ideas about an American GP2 here:
http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135577 I really do think it would be good to get a series to get some of the South American drivers in the F1 ladder. Even those who make it to Europe, like Guerrieri, end up in the U.S. eventually, which is a shame. That said, I'm not sure if it will be any easier for these South American and North American drivers to get into a GP2 in the Americas. It will still require funding. On top of that, who will run the cars? If there is nothing to lure IndyCar teams away, and if it is more expensive than Indy Lights, they won't have any U.S. ones, so that leaves you looking to Canada, Mexico, and South America, where I'm not as familiar with racing teams. I do think a focus would have to be on outside the U.S., too. The U.S. F3 Championship wasn't exactly a winner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...e_Championship We also had a Formula Renault 2.0 championship here that didn't last. |
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I don't expect him to be driving there in 2013, but Cecotto, Jr. is going to be testing for Arden.
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Rather than American GP2 Series, bring us back Formula 2 Codasur.
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First day of testing, Nasr and Ericsson draw first blood.
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