Antonio Pizzonia to race at Hockenheim

Well, he's proven he has the speed. Now all he needs to do is combine this with the ability to complete the race on Sunday!

 

There's something poetic about Pizzonia having a go exactly a year after Jaguar sacked him. I've always felt Pizzonia was cut short by an inbalanced team that wasn't capable of running two cars. Seems as if they never were and still aren't. Williams was always keen on Pizzonia and it wasn't a surprise that Antonio was back at the wheel of a Williams a few months after he had left Jaguar, only to be the quickest during his testsession, just from the word go. In the final session at Jerez, he was quickest again during the final days. I think Pizzonia definatly has the speed, and perhaps a team like Williams can offer him an honest chance to proof his worth. If Antonio succeeds, I think we'll see him racing in F1 next year. If he doesn't, he will never get a chance ever again.

 

After seeing Pizzaboy flip that Jag with the reporter in it, I wouldn't let him drive a milk truck.

 

I thought I was the only one that remembered that.

 

Well said ! He was erratic and dangerous in F3000. Yes he has speed but that's not what it takes to race in F1.

He's another Zonta/Enge/Gene/DeLarosa type.

He's bringing money !!!!! It's a damn shame no one will give Davidson a chance.

He'd whip jungle boy in the Mercedes pace car!

Webber had the same car as Pizzaboy and was way faster and I am no Webber fan so before you start touting him as the next Schumacher...that hold little water with me. Webber is a decent F1 driver along the likes of Coulthard, Trulli, Fisichella and such. He is not in my opinion the next Alonso, Kimi, or Button.

Sad !

Regards,

Jon P. Kofod
www.flatoutracing.net

 

Patrick Head calls himself a 'fan' of Pizzonia, and I suspect he knows what he is talking about. It wasn't too surprising that Williams kept their faith and re-hired Pizzonia as their testdriver after Jaguar sacked him. May I remind you, by the way, that Justin Wilson couldn't do anything with the second Jag either. I'll agree that Mark Webber has a lot more to proof than being quick in qualifying before I'll look upon him as a future WDC, but stating that he drives the exact same car as Pizzonia is a little premature to say the least.

So he rolled a Jag. Gerhard Berger took Jean Todt's brand new Delta Integrale for a quick spin...and wrote it off.

 

PS, what exactly makes you think Davidson is a new star?

He is quick on a friday, but what do you know about the state of his tyres and fuelloads? Sato beat him in Formula 3 and Ant didn't make a name for himself during his two races at Minardi. I'll admit he has potential, but I see no reason to conclude that Davidson is a far better proposition than Pizzonia. In fact, I don't think he is, since Pizzonia knows the FW26 and is hella quick with it.

 

Umm, Fisichella absolutely destroyed Button when they were teammates.

 

Granted !!! But it was Button's second year (only fourth year in a race car) and the Benneton that year was a pig. The guy literally had one season of Formula Ford and one season of Formula 3 under his belt before F1.

Fisi at one time had world class potential and I still hope he gets a Williams drive but he well past his "sell by date". Like Heinz Harold Frentzen he was never in the right place at the right time (although at least Frentzen got one good chance).

I watched Pizzaboy race in F3000 and he was wild and eratic. Enge, Pantano, and Bourdais were not only much quicker, they were much better racers. And while at Jaguar Pizzaboy did nothing of particular note except crash that damn road car and two other Jaguar F1 cars.

Jon

 

I don't know, no one has proved to me that Fisichella is not a world class driver. He has never been outqualified over a season. I think a teammate has only gotten more points that him *once*.