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**TerAlelmlor** · 11-20-2009, 12:30 PM

With all due respect St. Devote 'American' covers one heck of a lot of drivers including several current signed F1 drivers.
Massa and Barrichelo are American drivers!
JV and Paul Tracy are American drivers.
Now US drivers is a totally different situation.

USF1 do have a serious problem living up to their hype about employing US drivers. Outside of Scott Speed I doubt any US driver has a required super licence and few have the qualifications for one.
I wish them well but their PR is coming back to haunt them.
I really hope they can employ at least one talented up and coming US driver in a test role. There are quite few.
Against that they need a test driver who knows what a F1 car needs and understands set ups extremely well. Untested rookies are not that answer!
In the hard school of F1 teams need the to have the absolute best feed back they can get. Someone who has never driven a F1 car or anything like one just cannot give the feedback required.
You have to have a baseline to compare your info from. Computers are invaluable but the seat of the pants is still required,
If it wasn't the current F1 teams would never bother to test.

11-20-2009, 12:30 PM	#14
TerAlelmlor Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 591 Senior Member	With all due respect St. Devote 'American' covers one heck of a lot of drivers including several current signed F1 drivers. Massa and Barrichelo are American drivers! JV and Paul Tracy are American drivers. Now US drivers is a totally different situation. USF1 do have a serious problem living up to their hype about employing US drivers. Outside of Scott Speed I doubt any US driver has a required super licence and few have the qualifications for one. I wish them well but their PR is coming back to haunt them. I really hope they can employ at least one talented up and coming US driver in a test role. There are quite few. Against that they need a test driver who knows what a F1 car needs and understands set ups extremely well. Untested rookies are not that answer! In the hard school of F1 teams need the to have the absolute best feed back they can get. Someone who has never driven a F1 car or anything like one just cannot give the feedback required. You have to have a baseline to compare your info from. Computers are invaluable but the seat of the pants is still required, If it wasn't the current F1 teams would never bother to test.
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