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Dave walker wasn't a bad driver, he won 25 of 32 races in his F3 championship winning season a year or so before, Senna's team-mates were pay drivers who did score points, multiple times. Fittipaldi finished in first, Walker 27th, that isn;t a great car, just a great driver.

 

I'd add, a great driver with a car that suited him but not his team mate... Probably. I wouldn't want to do Fittipaldi down but there must surely have been some other factor. I am guessing because I'm too young to remember (and I don't get to say that often )

 

Is he admitting he has no talent and money is getting him places

 

Or is he just saying that you need money to get into F1 nowadays?
One's like Maldonado I dont mind, but the ****ty ones like Karthikeyan don't deserve a grid spot.

 

Joe Saward thinks that Ma has signed with HRT for 2013

 

Bollocks! Got beat...

Andrew Benson ‏@andrewbensonf1
RT @joesaward: Ma signs to race for HRT in 2013, according to reports in China http://wp.me/ppB1o-2N5

 

Well if he does get on the grid then at least we'll have a reason to go to China, and the FIA's superlicence committee might earn their pay for the first time since they curtailed Yuji Ide's glorious career....

 

The guy is Alex Yoong mk2, he was over two seconds slower than De La Rosa the other day even Max Chilton was within a second of Glock. And are the Chinese fans really going to go mad for a guy running right at the back the Indians certainly have not with Karthikeyan

 

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Oh dear, it seems pay drivers are about to become more and more hated it seems.

 

I don't see why as long as they're good enough. Anyway, it's that same old argument: they're all pay drivers

 

Looks like the Ma thing was just rumours and not confirmed. He did a PR thing where he was celebrating being in an F1 car for practices and people took that to mean he was celebrating getting a drive.

 

To quote Billy Talent, surprise surprise.

 

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/11/14035.html
Valsecchi topped the final day of the YDT. I'm slightly disappointed with this years test. In recent years drivers were expected to match or better the quali time due to an insanely rubbered down track, but no-one really got near Hamilton's pole time. I s'pose it's partially down to the amount of components being tested but even so...

 

It isn't really a Young Drivers Test is it, it's just a late season car test with drivers on the periphery of F1 doing the testing, which was pretty much how it used to be. They should make all the drivers use the cars used on the Sunday with no new parts added.

 

This, especially given that Paffett and Prost are the wrong side of 30! It's a way for the FIA to re-introduce testing without it being explicit.

 

Vettel to be thrown out of the sport if he swears again during a live interview

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/20253052

Or maybe a just a fine............

 

Pretty sure I would lose all faith in humanity if he were to get thrown out of the sport for swearing...I mean seriously, are curse words that big of a deal? Its not like he has been accidentally swearing all the time. He apologized and now it shouldn't be a big deal. I dunno, I think its silly, but maybe thats just me

 

Pretty sure ASC was kidding about being thrown out.

 

Yea you're probably right