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I have updated the list I did last year of driver gradings. It is much longer now because it covers ACO, GT3 and IMSA. I'm pretty sure most of it is right, but there may well be some dodgy information in there.
One oddity is that Karun Chandok has been downgraded from Platinum to Gold, which can't be right, surely. So, if you should be working but would rather waste your time messing about with filters on Excel, follow the link below (hope it works). http://1drv.ms/1BvnYrx Movers and shakers: Gold to Platinum Kevin Estre Jann Mardenborough Martin Plowman Nick Tandy Jordan Taylor Silver to Gold (a selection, potentially significant for crew composition in LMP2 and GTE-Am) Johnny Adam Ben Barker Paul-Loup Chatin Maurizio Mediani Christoffer Nygaard Sean Rayhall Fernando Rees Jeffrey Segal Matthieu Vaxivière Mirko Venturi Gold to Silver (potentially significant for crew composition in LMP2 and GTE-Am, although lots of these guys will have been downgraded because of inactivity) Rui Aguas Martin Brundle Andrew Davis Casper Elgaard Tommy Erdos Alain Ferte Gabriele Gardel Philip Giebler Luke Hines Jonathan Kennard Jan Lammers Anthony Lazzaro Jos Menten Shogo Misuyama Fabio Onidi Darryl O'Young Harold Primat (got to be useful to someone) Lionel Robert Boris Said Stephen Simpson Tim Sugden Other thoughts SMP will have 3 Platinums to share between their two cars: Minassian, Salo and Aleshin, which means two Platinums in one car with a Silver or a Bronze. Strakka will have their usual line up of two Platinums and a Silver. ESM have two Platinums (Ryan Dalziel and Scott Sharp). Not sure if they will split them across the two cars. |
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Thanks for the analysis. |
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Thanks for that, much appreciated.
Lots of the 'gold' to 'silver' are age related too, I believe. Some really good ones there though, Primat is a good spot and could be highly sought after. |
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That silver to gold transition is a real killer. It could end the career of Sean Rayhall and at least stall the guys who don't have funding.
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Thanks for this Mike.
Quite a few Silver -> Gold that perhaps have been in the wings for a while (Mies, Mediani, Nygaard, Chatin, Palttala, Rugolo, etc.) That's another 10-15 very good drivers that will be fighting for pro seats. On the other side Primat, Hines, Onidi, O'Young all just became that much more valuable. Just to make sure, are the "new" drivers all previously unrated? I'm not sure that Rob Barff has only just appeared on the ratings, and at Silver as well. Tom Dillmann also stands out but I get the feeling Signatech are already on the case ... |
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Jeff Segal, Boris Said, Harold Primat? Scoop them up quick. Christoffer Nygaard, Sean Rayhall—possibly very important for some teams but these are very good drivers—can't complain. Jordan Taylor? Interesting. I need to check what level his brother is.
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Ricky is a Gold.
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rumour mongerers in the single seater forum have dillmann in formula renault 3.5 this season, fwiw. you couldn't do a dual campaign with that and elms due to a couple of clashes, but wec might work skipping the wsr hungary round for le mans.
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There's a test day clash too with WSR. I don't think he has his "rookie laps", even though he was pounding round in the Supercup race last year. Being a silver he can't take advantage of the new platinum role and skip it. What he thinks he'll achieve in WSR I'm not sure... |
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Vaxiviere made it work for the most part.
No real reason to think Dillmann couldn't do the same. A clash is just a clash, easy enough to hire someone else for a race. Lord knows there will be far more drivers than seats left over when the music stops. |
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This happens a lot of the time anyway for Le Mans so I wouldn't be surprised if Dillmann does double up and skips the WSR Hungary round. There's more than a few good silvers to go around those spare seats.
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Interesting stuff - thanks a lot Mike
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he's competing under the jagonya ayam banner with sean gelael, so it's funded by gelael's old man. free drive
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last year there were a total of 3 clashes between elms, le mans and formula renault 3.5 (spa wsr & le mans test, hungary wsr and paul ricard elms and estoril elms and jerez wsr). this year there's the hungarian one i pointed out before, the test day and the estoril/jerez one again too. in theory you could actually do half the jerez wsr meeting (friday and saturday) and all of the important bits of the estoril one on sunday. another example of combining the two is oli webb - he started off the season doing 3.5 alongside elms, then gave up after the monaco round to "focus" on elms. i think dillmann is more able than both him and vaxiviere though. it's all hypothetical anyway. but i think 3.5 and elms lmp2 are a very natural combination for a driver with a bit of backing looking to multitask, establish a good reputation in sportscars and gain some experience. |
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Link to the updated list, as at 17 Feb. Notable additions are Michael Christensen (Platinum) and Marco Sorensen (Gold).
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Cheers, always appreciated, I do like to keep this handy. You know, for when I win the lottery and need an 'am' co-driver. Or something like that.
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In related news, if one hasn't heard, FIA does charge you a fee to have your rating re-evaluated.
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1) has been a Works Driver, paid by a car manufacturer, with results to match 2) is a driver whose performances and achievements, despite not being covered by one of the definitions above, may be considered as Platinum by the FIA |
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