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Has Davidson done enough?
Topic Started: May 7 2008, 02:27 PM (434 Views)
safc_fan89
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He thinks so. I don't. When I think of what he has done at Super Aguri, it goes 'qualify well, do nothing of particular note in the races'.

I wouldn't be surprised to see him end up as a tester again, but I think his hopes of finding another race seat are a tad optimistic. Who would take him? No top team, as there are capable drivers in non-winning cars. Only if another small team comes into the sport would he be a decent choice. And that certainly doesn't look like happening.
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Rams
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No, I don't think he has either.

I feel that the current Honda drivers would have done a lot better in last year's Super Aguri, scoring more than 4 points certainly.
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Luckily for him there are 4 or 5 drivers on the grid who aren't doing enough at the moment or who are likely to be retiring this season so there are going to be slots available next season which I don't think will all go to the current GP2 crop.

I think he has done a good job, he was ahead of Sato during the whole 2nd half of last season and his record so far this season was pretty good. I think he had a brilliant weekend in Bahrain for example.

Sato has the better stock value at the moment due to that race at Canada last season where he overtook Alonso(in my opinion Alonso did the sensible thing and yielded the position). Davidson was on for a better result in that race but hit a beaver, what was he ment to do, use the emergency stop? And that point in Spain, that was a race of attrition if I remember rightly?

He will get a test seat at worse but to be honest I think both Aguri drivers will get a seat in the near future. Sato first though because he is Japanese so he has a chance of joining Honda, Toyota or Williams(due to the engine in the back of it) and he may get the seat before this season ends, Davidson will have to sit on the fence and wait but most likely his manager's phone is red hot at the moment because over the half the pit lane will want him as their test driver but I think he will get another drive in 2009.
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SaveOurSilverstone
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maybe Force India will dump Sutil and employ Ant????
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Norbert
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Toyota might take Sato, either for their team or the team they supply engines for. Despite Honda blatantly trying to blame Sato's demise on Aguri Suzuki, it may provide a publicity coup for them to hire him. Having said that, as they have Nakajima on thier books courtesy of Frank, it isn't the be-all and end-all as Japan still has an F1 driver. However, this won't be lost on Honda, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Rubens cast aside for Sato next year - after all, the 'embarrassment' to Honda of the only Japanese driver on the grid being run by theior arch-rival may yet see Sato's bacon saved. It is a shame that Japanese manufacturers put such an emphasis on having a countryman powered by their engine - just go back to 1988 where Honda ditched Williams after Frank refused to be bullied into taking a driver to secure the engines (ironically, I think that may have been a certain other Nakajima?).
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Norbert,May 7 2008
04:06 PM
Sato's demise

You mean Sato not being good enough?
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Davidson didn't really do enough against Sato to get many of the top teams after him. However, he might be an option as a test driver or a race driver for one of the smaller teams should they change hands any time soon.
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TheCompleteGuitarist,May 7 2008
05:09 PM
Norbert,May 7 2008
04:06 PM
Sato's demise

You mean Sato not being good enough?

No, I mean the team that Honda created for him being lynched by Honda after another Japanese appeared on the grid and they could risk dumping him without too much bad publicity as they could blame Aguri Suzuki instead....

<dunce>
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SaveOurSilverstone,May 7 2008
11:03 AM
maybe Force India will dump Sutil and employ Ant????

I think they'd be more likely to give Narain Karthikeyan a drive.
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Norbert,May 7 2008
04:34 PM
TheCompleteGuitarist,May 7 2008
05:09 PM
Norbert,May 7 2008
04:06 PM
Sato's demise

You mean Sato not being good enough? . . . . .

No, I mean the team that Honda created for him being lynched by Honda after another Japanese appeared on the grid and they could risk dumping him without too much bad publicity as they could blame Aguri Suzuki instead....

<dunce>

. . . . . to hold down a seat at Honda
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Rob
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On the topic though I don't think Davidson has done enough to stay in F1. He may have been ahead of Sato late last year, but he was beating Sato, not a top or even second tier driver.
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Red Andy
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No, as much as I like Anthony I don't think he has done enough to race in F1 again. I always said that there must have been a reason Honda kept him as a test driver for all these years rather than giving him a chance with a race seat; last year and the first few races of this year have proven me correct, I'm afraid. Anthony may be an excellent test driver, but he definitely isn't a racer. He was unlucky not to score any points last year as he had good races in Bahrain and Canada, but unfortunately those days didn't come often enough to warrant Ant being picked up by any other F1 team in the future.
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You need to make those races count. Sato did, Davidson didn't.
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RJHSaints
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That's harsh. Rogue beavers aren't really anything you can do something about. <doh>
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Ah, but, can't you see? The beaver incident was all Ant's fault, I mean he was driving around with a bag of Beaver food in the cockpit. <sarcasm>
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