rec.autos.simulators

If you don't understand stock car racing or road racing move to Canada! :) <G>

Vinc

If you don't understand stock car racing or road racing move to Canada! :) <G>

by Vinc » Sun, 05 Sep 1999 04:00:00


I think it depends upon what the team consider to be the best choice
between a fair fight between team mates, and the world championship,
especially when there is also a driver from another team that can
still win it (es. Williams in 1981 and 1986, WC Piquet and Prost)
--
---------------------------------------------------------------------

   Home-page : http://www.racesimcentral.net/
    Il sito di ISF1mod : http://www.racesimcentral.net/
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Peter Ive

If you don't understand stock car racing or road racing move to Canada! :) <G>

by Peter Ive » Sun, 05 Sep 1999 04:00:00



Yeah, what I should have said was F1 is global whereas Touring cars is
generally restricted to a single country.

Sure, this does happen in the lesser F1 teams who, due to financial
considerations, bring in a driver who comes with a financial package as
a result of sponsorship, etc.  However, with the bigger teams, there's
no reason to overlook a really talented driver, although I can't
actually remember an instance where a 'complete unknown', in F1 terms,
is brought in out of nowhere.  I think generally, what they tend to do
is to take them on as a test driver.  I think that's how Wirtz got his
chance with Benetton.

I don't doubt it.  There's no way that all those 22 drivers in F1 are
the best there is.  Though I hope that, as in all sports, the cream
generally does rise to the top.

I'll take your word for it.  I was only surmising that every driver,
given the chance would love to drive an F1 car.

--
Peter Ives

Fredrik Th?rnel

If you don't understand stock car racing or road racing move to Canada! :) <G>

by Fredrik Th?rnel » Mon, 06 Sep 1999 04:00:00


> >First off a small correction. Theres swedish, german, australian and probably
> >a few more touring car series in the world.

> >F1 drivers sure get paid more. But I think that there are two kinds of
> >drivers. Those who go for wealth and fame, and those who go for a kind of
> >racing they enjoy. I can clearly see how the latter kind would go to touring
> >cars, rallycross or other kinds of racing and stay with them - even if they
> >could move on to formula cars - just since that's the kind of racing they want
> >to do.

> HAHAHAHAHHAHA

> You really think a TC driver would turn down a F1 ride making minimum
> 2-3 M a year for a TC ride making $100K  to  500K a year.

As can be seen by anyone with the ability to read, yes I do. Not everyone
views their bank balance as the sole point of their existence.

We could argue the issue of how many percent of the TC drivers who would be
willing to switch over if given the opportunity until kingdom come and not get
anywhere. Most, many, some, few... Doesn't matter, as long as not ALL would. I
don't think all would, and I in fact doesn't think most would either. Either
way, I've made my point. What point are you trying to make?

What part was it that was hard to understand?

Again, I can't see what part was hard to get. The trickiest word being
'convinced' I think that's a sentence most ppl should be able to grasp.

Well, that depends. I live on planet Earth, orbiting the star Sol. From your
responses I take it you don't. What is your location? And how did you tap into
USEnet?

Somebody, get on the phone to Goonhilly, Cape Canaveral, Woomera and Jodrell
bank. We've made extraterrestrial contact! :D

Cheers,
    /ft


rec.autos.simulators is a usenet newsgroup formed in December, 1993. As this group was always unmoderated there may be some spam or off topic articles included. Some links do point back to racesimcentral.net as we could not validate the original address. Please report any pages that you believe warrant deletion from this archive (include the link in your email). RaceSimCentral.net is in no way responsible and does not endorse any of the content herein.