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USGP
Topic Started: Jun 15 2009, 12:43 PM (595 Views)
Rams
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How do you think USGP will do next year? I expect them to struggle, perhaps hilariously, although they may well beat the other pikey teams on the grid next season as they've had longer to prepare.

Here is the first nail in the coffin, they are going to hire young American drivers with no experiance of F1 or the circuits:

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news...615102218.shtml
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<think>

Well, they may prove me wrong, but I suspect that they might be somewhat along the lines of the ill-fated lola F1 team.

I do find it awfully ironic that a US F1 effort is headed up by a Brit. If I didn't know any better, I would suggest that it is a shameless marketing opportunity
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I’d have liked to have seen them do it 10-12 years ago and select Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart as their drivers
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Why have national F1 teams when we have a perfectly good A1GP series for them to compete in? It's retarded. Same goes for Force India, too.
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RJHSaints,Jun 15 2009
10:46 AM
Why have national F1 teams when we have a perfectly good A1GP series for them to compete in? It's retarded. Same goes for Force India, too.

Marketing. I expect the US based driver system to last about a season.
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Marco Andretti to drive one car
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Lord Tau
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I heard Danica Patrick might drive one of the cars.

But this was ages ago that I heard that.
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I heard the same but the current rumours for her are moving to a different IRL team or going to NASCAR. The F1 link seems to have gone really quiet

But I’m not sure who else they could pick
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They could try and rope in Scott Speed. He's got F1 experience. :s
On the other hand he also has experience of getting into fisticuffs with his boss <think>
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RJHSaints,Jun 15 2009
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Why have national F1 teams when we have a perfectly good A1GP series for them to compete in? It's retarded. Same goes for Force India, too.

At least with Force India though it's just in a name. Sure they may put an Indian driver in the team in time, but they're not just going to chuck a couple in just for the sake of it which is exactly what USGP are doing. Force India are as mulitnationial as anyone else, whereas USGP are trying to "Americanise" as many things as possible.
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Rams,Jun 16 2009
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RJHSaints,Jun 15 2009
04:46 PM
Why have national F1 teams when we have a perfectly good A1GP series for them to compete in? It's retarded. Same goes for Force India, too.

At least with Force India though it's just in a name. Sure they may put an Indian driver in the team in time, but they're not just going to chuck a couple in just for the sake of it which is exactly what USGP are doing. Force India are as mulitnationial as anyone else, whereas USGP are trying to "Americanise" as many things as possible.

I think the USA seem to think they have something to prove.

I don't follow racing in the USA. I like F1 and it is effectively all I can see. But American drivers have not fared that well of late in F1. Even as far back as Eddie Cheever it seemed that the American drivers struggled to make an impact here whereas Europeans who went to the states tended to do well.

Bourdais and Wilson of late Franchitti and Mansell in the past, even Zanardi. Can't say if it had anything to do with the car as I didn't follow their careers.

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stradlin24,Jun 15 2009
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I’d have liked to have seen them do it 10-12 years ago and select Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart as their drivers

Don't forget that series cross over doesn't always work. Look at Zanardi and JPM.
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JPM wasn't exactly a failure in F1, was he?
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ELUSIVEJIM
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If USGP want to have ANY chance in F1 they need to go for drivers who are not racing in the US.

Apart from Montoya there has been NO drivers who have come from Champ Car etc who have done well in F1.

Just like Bourdais or Michael Andretti these drivers are good in the US but come F1.

I really feel that this team is a BIG mistake for F1
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I have absolutely no doubt at all that had Jeff Gordon or Tony Stewart been in an F1 car when they were in their early 20’s they would have been as good as anyone today and I’d challenge any F1 driver to achieve what they have achieved in US Motorsports. JPM has yet to get a NASCAR cup series oval win despite a lot of F1 fans claiming he’d walk it over there. Let’s not forget that Tony Stewart is an IndyCar champion, 2 time NASCAR cup series champion, USAC triple crown champion and International Race of Champions champion (that’s real IROC, not that thing they have in Wembley stadium) He’s not a ‘one series driver’

Some of the problem is that a lot of people have this miss-guided view that every single professional driver in the world aspires to be in Formula 1. Therefore if you don’t ever race in F1 then you’re a complete non-entity. I don’t think we can really call the likes of AJ Foyt a non-entity and the same goes for Stewart and Gordon, these are world class drivers, easily as good as the current F1 bunch but they have simply decided to take a different direction. And I doubt F1 would have ever be able to handle a young Tony Stewart, he’d have rocked the boat way too much over there

Michael Andretti and Alex Zanardi didn’t go from Champ Car to F1, they went from CART to F1. Bourdais went from Champ Car to F1.

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