Yes Ii do. You've made the same comment before. So someone is successful in a junior career but doesn't (yet) make F1, but it's ok because plenty of successful junior careers failed in F1? What kind of logic is that.
In case you haven't noticed, many things have changed since the Prost and Senna days. At the time F2 wasn't a sub-branch of F1, but several INDEPENDENT series , not specs series. There were several chassis constructors, several engine providers, etc ... Bernie attached GP2 (as it became) to F1 as a feeder series, and it became a specs series. Rosberg and Hamilton were the first graduates. If you look at the list of winners, not all of them made it to F1, because there was no seat available every year, and the next promotion brought new talents. So, if you missed your turn, hard luck. Max Verstappen was soon in the Red Bull organisation, and they promoted him straight from F3, without going through F2. This is why I said that doing well in F2 is no guarantee of success in F1, because the facts prove it. Look at Albon, Mick Schumacher. But you have average drivers in F2 who got seats in F1: Tsunoda, Zhou, Latifi, Mazepin, etc ...
Yes, absolutely. He had his eyes on him for many years and sponsored him through the lower series for that reason. That was a rare case where a newcomer in F1 landed a seat in a top team. That doesn't happen very often; Gilles Villeneuve and Jacques Villeneuve may be the exceptions.
You missed my point. I talked about Piastri not because his F2 season but because he won three championships in a row as a ROOKIE. Some serious clues that there is a reasonable percentage of a generational talent in the making. Would love to see him next to Bottas for instance. The Vandoorne syndrome isn’t valid for everyone I guess..
Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Montoya, Jody Schecter, Emmo, Clay Regazzoni, I'm sure there are others.
Congratulation to Lance Dtroll who finished 10th at the French GP, and ahead of Vettel. Are we witnessing an Aston revival for the rest of the season?
Trackside Both Astons and Mclarens looked plain slow. Visually so slow I wondered some sort of mechanical issues for them !
The Astons are not competitive, we know that. But one managed to finish in the points (just 1 though), which is better than in 7 previous GPs this year !
What was particularly impressive was the way Stroll made up all those places and elevated himself to 10th.
Stroll has regularly done well on the 1st laps in his career, whether that's a talent, or proof that he qualifies worse than his car I don't know! He got to 10th on the first lap in France I believe, but stayed there at the end. I think his points this year are all from 10th place finishes, so I don't think the Aston Martin is going anywhere higher this year.
Mike Krack: Lance Stroll is at Aston Martin on merit, not because of his father : PlanetF1 Otmar made a similar comment shortly before he left . . .
