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22 Nov 2010, 20:56 (Ref:2794439) | #101 | |
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I think that Charles Pic is in good position to get a seat at addax team.
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he hasn't carried that sponsorship on his car this year, so i'm not sure what your point is.
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you could isolate anyone who wasn't in the top 10 of any series and say they're not worthy of their sponsorship. it depends what the sponsor is looking for and who they're related to.
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If Rosenweig actually stayed in a series for more than one season then I reckon he could do alright. He's shown flashes of speed in his 3 seasons to date and stacked up surprisngly well against his team mate Brendon Hartley in the F3 Euroseries in 09, he only lost out something like 6-4 in qualifying, and this was while Hartley was the reserve driver for Red Bull and Toro Rosso. And Jake did get a pole at Spa in the World Series this year. True, he ain't a world beater and isn't as good as Newgarden and Edwards as you say, but he could be ok with a bit of continuity. He should stay with Carlin in WSR next year and try and become a regular points scorer.
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23 Nov 2010, 14:01 (Ref:2794706) | #107 | |
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Day 1 – morning session 1. Michael Herck DPR 1:48.447 (28) 2. James Jakes - Scuderia Coloni - 1:48.530 (21) 3. Robert Wickens - iSport International - 1:48.761 (19) 4. Andrea Caldarelli - Racing Engineering - 1:48.869 (25) 5. Josef Kral - Barwa Addax Team - 1:48.889 (27) 6. Esteban Gutierrez - ART Grand Prix - 1:48.955 (20) 7. Sam Bird - Ocean Racing Tech - 1:49.106 (18) 8. Stefano Coletti - Trident Racing - 1:49.137 (15) 9. Roberto Mehri - Arden International - 1:49.164 (19) 10. Rodolfo Gonzalez Racing Engineering 1:49.194 (25) 11. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova Racing 1:49.217 (19) 12. Charles Pic Barwa Addax Team 1:49.288 (13) 13. Joylon Palmer iSport International 1:49.764 (25) 14. Jan Charouz ART Grand Prix 1:49.970 (27) 15. Kevin Ceccon Scuderia Coloni 1:49.981 (30) 16. Fabio Leimer Rapax 1:50.112 (10) 17. Nathanael Berthon Dams 1:50.254 (25) 18. Ivan Samarin Dams 1:50.470 (30) 19. Julian Leal Trident Racing 1:50.684 (12) 20 Nicolas Marroc Ocean Racing Tech 1:50.757 (25) 21. Jake Rosenzweig Super Nova Racing 1:51.440 (20) 22. Simon Trummer Arden International 1:51.593 (20) 23. Armaan Ebrahim Rapax 1:53.914 (28) 24. Camilo Zurche r DPR 2:33.817 (1) |
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Day 1 – Afternoon session 1. James Jakes Scuderia Coloni 1:47.790 (19) 2. Esteban Gutierrez ART Grand Prix 1:48.209 (27) 3. Charles Pic Barwa Addax Team 1:48.302 (36) 4. Rodolfo Gonzalez Racing Engineering 1:48.302 (20) 5. Robert Wickens iSport International 1:48.408 (20) 6. Stefano Coletti Trident Racing 1:48.413 (27) 7. Josef Kral Barwa Addax Team 1:48.426 (24) 8. Michael Herck DPR 1:48.555 (19) 9. Andrea Caldarelli Racing Engineering 1:48.635 (26) 10. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova Racing 1:48.657 (16) 11. Joylon Palmer iSport International 1:48.836 (21) 12. Sam Bird Ocean Racing Tech 1:48.849 (19) 13. Kevin Ceccon Scuderia Coloni 1:48.870 (13) 14. Roberto Merhi Arden International 1:48.947 (27) 15. Jan Charouz ART Grand Prix 1:49.575 (28) 16. Nathanael Berthon Dams 1:49.767 (31) 17. Ivan Samarin Dams 1:49.950 (25) 18. Julian Leal Trident Racing 1:50.050 (8) 19. Simon Trummer Arden International 1:50.056 (29) 20 Nicolas Marroc Ocean Racing Tech 1:50.651 (15) 21. Armaan Ebrahim Rapax 1:51.073 (23) 22. Jake Rosenzweig Super Nova Racing 1:51.419 (8) 23. Fabio Leimer Rapax 1:51.605 (3) 24. Camilo Zurcher DPR — (—) |
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Bottas will be competing in GP3 next year, very odd decision but its almost safe to say that he will seal the title in 2011. Interesting how gutierez who made the switch a year earlier has now leaped ahead of him and moved into GP2. Id also assume that funding played a part in this decision.
Esteban - 4 years in car racing and 84 races - GP2 Bottas - 4 years in car racing and 94 races - GP3 |
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Groan, another decent driver having resorted to that rubbish because he can't get the money to be where he should be.
IMO his big rival really is Ricciardo (not Guttierez, although your brief stats are telling), and to a lesser extent Merhi as they were the big contenders in Eurocup FR2.0 3 years ago. Look at where Ricciardo is on the verge of compared to Bottas and both having supposed support from F1 teams!! I guess Williams think it's better from him to be racing (in front of them) in an ox-cart than a serious single seater like FR3.5 or GP2. |
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May be next year Herck will start winning regularly? If drivers like Bottas and Turvey can't afford it, then it won't surprise me! What about Herck vs Jakes for the championship?
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Has Marcus got access to the sort of funding that the current top teams require though? I find it quite difficult to say 'top team' as if David Sears outfit isn't anymore?! One of the most successful entrants at this level in the last 15 years. Mad world when they can't be competitive, as with Dams, although the French team was much better in 2010 than in previous seasons it has to be said. |
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Have the GP2 teams stayed in Abu Dhabi since the last round? If they haven't it must have been a logistical nightmare. They must have stayed there. Who pays for all of it?! All the team personnel staying in Abu Dhabi for a good 2 and a half weeks, it must cost a bomb.
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All the teams came home as they had to get to Paul Ricard for the Shakedown last week. Can't see why it should be a logistical nightmare, getting 10-12 people on a plane in Abu Dhabi just under 2 weeks ago and then getting them back on a plane a week later, it's what they do all year for the European rounds. |
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They usually have 2 weeks for European rounds without any testing in-between, so this 2 weeks certainly will have been harder logistically surely, bearing in mind the distance? They got to Abu Dhabi on the 10th or 11th of November for the final round, and leave on the 14th or 15th. Fly a longer distance than usual then test at Paul Ricard on the 18th with the new cars. Then presumably fly back to Abu Dhabi on the 21st or 22nd, test on the 23rd, 24th, 27th and 28th. Then fly back to Europe! There must be more logistics. It's not the same as when they raced at Silverstone back in July, then had a 2 week gap until Hockenheim. Much shorter flights, drive etc, and they could all go home in-between for over a week.
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nah, it's easier than having to get a truck full of stuff from barcelona to monaco for those back to back races in time to be fully set up and have the cars ready for thursday practice. the only pain in the butt would have been having to divide their tools to send one lot to abu dhabi and keep them there whilst having enough kit to go to paul ricard and build and rebuild the new cars...
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The flying longer distances doesn't really make a difference as teams tend to allow the Airlines pilots to worry about things like that. A weekend between races doesn't mean the teams have 2 full weeks back at base and often with double headers the team will fly back home for a day or 2 and then fly to the next circuit. For a normal race weekend teams arrive at a circuit on Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning and leave on Sunday night or Monday morning This means they get only 8 or 9 days back at base and that's only for those who are flying, the truck may take 2 or 3 days to get to and from base to circuit, this means between some races the team might only have 3 or 4 days to work on the cars before the truck has to leave for the next meeting. Of course for the British teams Silverstone is easy for logistics Especially for Arden as they are close of enough for people to go home each night. So very few hotel rooms needed and no flights. I'm sure the flight chaos caused by the ash cloud earlier this year caused a bigger logistics nightmare than they've had from this. |
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