[serius_06]

During my karting career, when I was seriously considering a career in motorsport, I talked with him on phone regarding cost and rules & reg. Seemed like a nice chap then.

Sounds intriguing! Why did your career stop then and what kind of a challenge is it to build a motorsport career in India - any chance of getting anywhere?

[Julik19]

Sounds intriguing! Why did your career stop then and what kind of a challenge is it to build a motorsport career in India - any chance of getting anywhere?

Not enough money. Only the rich have a snowball's chance in hell to get anywhere near F1 or even lower formulaes. You have to be either very influential or very filthy rich. Both Karun and Narain have really, really wealthy fathers. Narain's father is some industrialist I guess, who funded his son's motorsport career right from the very beginning, getting him to UK and rest of Europe etc. Narain even had a go-kart track in his backyard as a kid growing up.

I don't belong to a very rich family, and so had to give up, because the cost was a tad too much to bear. There are no real significant driver scholarships in India like there are in Europe and America. No sponsors interested in anything else than Cricket. So, a driver has to pretty much pay his way through everything, and it can be a very daunting task for someone even from a moderately rich family, forget about middle class. Besides, I don't think I was that good anyway.

[carfAball]

And I sort of agree with ioan here. They won't be scoring any points anyway, .

But the place where they finish at still counts in the run for the tenth place in WCC, even if they dont score points. So they did the right thing in not putting an incompetent fool in the car and instead preferred the obviously much better driver in Trulli.

[Julik19]

But the place where they finish at still counts in the run for the tenth place in WCC, even if they dont score points. So they did the right thing in not putting an incompetent fool in the car and instead preferred the obviously much better driver in Trulli.

I already said twice in this thread that I agree with Tony's decision on this. Apparently the TV revenue money that Lotus will be getting with the 10th place would be much more than whatever the group of sponsors would have paid for to get KC a drive for the weekend.

[Hervams]

I already said twice in this thread that I agree with Tony's decision on this. Apparently the TV revenue money that Lotus will be getting with the 10th place would be much more than whatever the group of sponsors would have paid for to get KC a drive for the weekend.

I think the achievement of beating their nearest rivals is also appealing. Money is one thing, but F1 in general is a massive hole in any teams pocket and getting position in the championship helps to get some of that money back. Having championship position is also a return on the effort put in, so we agree Trulli was the better choice for consistency.

[Biassasecumma]

Funny how Chandhok couldn't have done much worse than finishing last as Trulli did.

[vulikox]

In fairness Trulli did appear to get hit from behind on the first corner. He lost a bucketload of time recovering to the pits, then some more time having a wing change.

[serius_06]

Well, that's the unpredictability racing. You can hire Alex Yoong over Sebastian Vettel for one race weekend and Yoong could get a superior result if Vettel happens to get punted out immediately. But proven drivers are hired in order to have a higher general possibility of finishing upwards.

[illerlytoindy]

In fairness Trulli did appear to get hit from behind on the first corner. He lost a bucketload of time recovering to the pits, then some more time having a wing change.

Did anyone see who hit Trulli?

[vulikox]

Did anyone see who hit Trulli?

One of the HRTs but I didn't see which one.