Pastor returns?
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He's probably read the financial headlines in recent days and got excited when he read oil has hit $50 a barrel. Meanwhile, back in reality in Venezuela, people are starving.
And having seen Max crash at Monaco he thinks being crash-prone shouldn't be a "barrier" to getting back into F1.
I think this is overly optiimistic kite-flying by Pastor to try and make himself "marketable".
And having seen Max crash at Monaco he thinks being crash-prone shouldn't be a "barrier" to getting back into F1.
I think this is overly optiimistic kite-flying by Pastor to try and make himself "marketable".
IforB said:
Palmer is hardly any better on the not smashing it into a wall for no reason stakes. So would we notice if Pastor turned up again?
I don't think Palmer will be around long either. Ocon and Sirotkin are waiting in the wings. Potentially Bottas and/or Massa available, along with Kvyat, maybe the Sauber drivers too. I read in another article Pastor said that if he can't find an F1 ride he'd look at WEC / endurance.
What I can get straight in my head is why would any team (in any of those series) seriously consider him ?
In F1 the schedule is so busy and the development race so tight no team wants to spend time and money making a bunch of replacement parts for the stuff he's smashed up. The money side is one thing, but the time it takes away from other work won't help progress.
For the other series, they have even less resources. Their schedule isn't as busy, which makes it even more important to actually finish. I don't think his temperament behind the will would suit a busy track, I can remember him moving around in a race last year and afterwards Button shaking his head in a interview saying "you just can't do that". No-one wants to race wheel to wheel with the guy because they don't trust him.
Whichever series/class there must be a fairly long list of drivers you'd put ahead of Pastor?
IforB said:
Palmer is hardly any better on the not smashing it into a wall for no reason stakes. So would we notice if Pastor turned up again?
Sure we would - hitting a wall doesn't get much TV coverage for your sponsors, but hitting other cars like Crashtor always does gets far more air-time! I'd like to laugh, but there must be so many people with so much more talent who just don't have the level of funding he does (although I really don't know why?).
Why doesn't he try the BTCC with Matt Neal and Jason Plato - plenty of scope for crashing there!
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