Just occurred to me that no-one has mentioned Formula Two yet. Is that just because we haven't seen a driver make the step up yet? What about the format of the series itself? EDIT:
Looking into F2 it's got potential but it has its flaws. A lack of any current real benchmark, say against GP2 drivers, is one problem. Inaugural champion (and future Virgin tester *giggle*) Andy Soucek had finished 16th and 14th in his two seasons in GP2, and dominated the championship. Does that say that Soucek was a good driver in a poor field, or an average driver in a dreadful field? Incidentally, it was a certain Valtteri Bottas - then with only F3 experience to his name - who beat him to a Williams testing seat in 2010 onwards.
I think Robert Wickens (2nd to Andy Soucek) has more going for him. He beat Vergne in FR3.5 last year (They were team mates) but somehow ended up in DTM?
Strange, from what I can gather though he'll be part of the Mercedes Young Driver Programme that launched the careers of people like Frentzen and Schumacher, with an opportunity like that it's hard to turn down really. It is kind of weird that given his form over the last two years the only team to take a punt on him were Virgin and even then only as a test driver. Was reading about Dean Stoneman (2010 champion), he was set to go to FR3.5 but was diagnosed with cancer, poor bloke.
Wickens so needs to be in F1 ffs. F1 needs a USA vs Canada rivalry! Btw tomtom94 we dont need your common sense
so, FR3.5. No bad driving going on here.................. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103615 I mean, what kind of feeder series allows one driver to take his only title rival out of a race, thus making sure that he wins the title, and doesn't get penalised for it ....................
I'd imagine mentioning 1989/1990/1994 in the supposed pinnacle of motorsport would be rather too obvious at this point. From what I've heard, it was at least partly accidental and Frijns simply made the most of it.
