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**serius_06** · 10-27-2011, 05:20 PM

Chandhok was so much out of his depth in the German Grand Prix that I quite understand, why Lotus doesn't risk putting him into the race seat again. I can also remember Chandhok crashing a car or two in free practices. I don't know, how much money could Chandhok have brought to the team (obviously the amount was insignificant compared to what Karthikeyan can bring to HRT), but there is not much to gain from having one of your cars coming home last.

I have to agree with those, who say that people have gone a bit overboard about Indian drivers for the Indian Grand Prix. Why not enter drivers based on that criteria in every GP then?

There is Brazilian Grand Prix coming up, maybe Luiz Razia should race for Lotus (he is a reserve driver, isn't he). Maybe with Valsecchi they should have entered two Italians for the Monza GP. Perhaps Ferrari should have entered Badoer for the Italian GP too. Doesn't matter that he would finish last, home Grand Prix after all... etc.

You know, F1 is not WRC, when in the past factory teams used to hire local specialists for certain events in order to maximize points total in the manufacturers championship. And even in WRC this strategy has pretty much died out by now. The best approach for getting results in F1 is consistency, constant swapping of drivers only disturbs the progress. In F1 feeling comfortable in a particular car counts more than knowledge of a particular circuit.

But there are no Hungarian, Korean or Chinese drivers signed as test or reserve drivers for any F1 teams, are there?

Ho-Pin Tung is Renault's "test" driver, isn't he?

What do you think, should he have entered the Shanghai race instead of Heidfeld?

10-27-2011, 05:20 PM	#14
serius_06 Join Date Oct 2005 Age 50 Posts 506 Senior Member	Chandhok was so much out of his depth in the German Grand Prix that I quite understand, why Lotus doesn't risk putting him into the race seat again. I can also remember Chandhok crashing a car or two in free practices. I don't know, how much money could Chandhok have brought to the team (obviously the amount was insignificant compared to what Karthikeyan can bring to HRT), but there is not much to gain from having one of your cars coming home last. I have to agree with those, who say that people have gone a bit overboard about Indian drivers for the Indian Grand Prix. Why not enter drivers based on that criteria in every GP then? There is Brazilian Grand Prix coming up, maybe Luiz Razia should race for Lotus (he is a reserve driver, isn't he). Maybe with Valsecchi they should have entered two Italians for the Monza GP. Perhaps Ferrari should have entered Badoer for the Italian GP too. Doesn't matter that he would finish last, home Grand Prix after all... etc. You know, F1 is not WRC, when in the past factory teams used to hire local specialists for certain events in order to maximize points total in the manufacturers championship. And even in WRC this strategy has pretty much died out by now. The best approach for getting results in F1 is consistency, constant swapping of drivers only disturbs the progress. In F1 feeling comfortable in a particular car counts more than knowledge of a particular circuit. But there are no Hungarian, Korean or Chinese drivers signed as test or reserve drivers for any F1 teams, are there? Ho-Pin Tung is Renault's "test" driver, isn't he? What do you think, should he have entered the Shanghai race instead of Heidfeld?
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