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**OrefZorremn** · 12-26-2010, 11:52 PM

Hmm, I think d'Ambrosio is a better driver than the GP2 results have shown, considering the circumstances and also performances against team-mates (Kobayashi and Grosjean). When Kobayashi joined F1 and impressed instantly, I immediately started wondering, whether d'Ambrosio may actually be good too, but simply the team was hopeless. D'Ambrosio also held his own against a proven GP2 front-runner Grosjean at the end of 2010.

In any case, I consider d'Ambrosio to be better than the other alleged contender for the Virgin seat - van der Garde - who has been driving for top teams and done nothing.

Cant help feel that this is a bad decision. DAMS needed to drop him for a race and get Grosjean in to find out if their car was any good in GP2 (it was, Grosjean allmost got poll in his first GP2 drive for more than a year, about half a grid better than Jerome had been doing before that).

Erm, at the end of the season the form of DAMS clearly improved, so did d'Ambrosio's results. I don't remember Grosjean getting a pole, but in that race, where he was close to the front and finished on the podium (Spa), d'Ambrosio was actually in the race lead before engine blow-up!

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Di Grassi? His season was like I kinda expected - got beaten by Glock like in 2007 in their GP2 title battle. Overall Lucas proved himself to be a man in the same way as in GP2 - consistent, rarely makes mistakes and never really puts himself into a bad light, but... never shows anything special either. He was never going to have a fruitful career in F1, but at least he got the honour to be part of the show for a bit and make up the numbers. Better than nothing, I guess.

12-26-2010, 11:52 PM	#11
OrefZorremn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 526 Senior Member	Hmm, I think d'Ambrosio is a better driver than the GP2 results have shown, considering the circumstances and also performances against team-mates (Kobayashi and Grosjean). When Kobayashi joined F1 and impressed instantly, I immediately started wondering, whether d'Ambrosio may actually be good too, but simply the team was hopeless. D'Ambrosio also held his own against a proven GP2 front-runner Grosjean at the end of 2010. In any case, I consider d'Ambrosio to be better than the other alleged contender for the Virgin seat - van der Garde - who has been driving for top teams and done nothing. Cant help feel that this is a bad decision. DAMS needed to drop him for a race and get Grosjean in to find out if their car was any good in GP2 (it was, Grosjean allmost got poll in his first GP2 drive for more than a year, about half a grid better than Jerome had been doing before that). Erm, at the end of the season the form of DAMS clearly improved, so did d'Ambrosio's results. I don't remember Grosjean getting a pole, but in that race, where he was close to the front and finished on the podium (Spa), d'Ambrosio was actually in the race lead before engine blow-up! -- Di Grassi? His season was like I kinda expected - got beaten by Glock like in 2007 in their GP2 title battle. Overall Lucas proved himself to be a man in the same way as in GP2 - consistent, rarely makes mistakes and never really puts himself into a bad light, but... never shows anything special either. He was never going to have a fruitful career in F1, but at least he got the honour to be part of the show for a bit and make up the numbers. Better than nothing, I guess.
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