Frank Montagny replaces Yuji Ide from the European GP

[RE30B#16]

Very harsh in my opinion. The poor bloke gets put in an F1 seat with bugger all testing and no experience in F1 and is expected to go fast on tracks he has never seen before. All they are doing is screwing the poor blokes career up. He has done well in Formula Nippon and given enough time I reckon he may have done ok. At least he was agressive and not just following everyone else around like midland do.

[GhoGho]

Very harsh in my opinion. The poor bloke gets put in an F1 seat with bugger all testing and no experience in F1 and is expected to go fast on tracks he has never seen before. All they are doing is screwing the poor blokes career up. He has done well in Formula Nippon and given enough time I reckon he may have done ok. At least he was agressive and not just following everyone else around like midland do.

Used to be that a F1 Supelicense was only issued after the required number of hours in an F1 car had been reached, usually through testing.
How he came to get a license without the required time, I dont know.
I think when they made an exception to the rule for Kimi a precedent was set.

[Julian Mayo]

Very harsh in my opinion. The poor bloke gets put in an F1 seat with bugger all testing and no experience in F1 and is expected to go fast on tracks he has never seen before. All they are doing is screwing the poor blokes career up. He has done well in Formula Nippon and given enough time I reckon he may have done ok. At least he was agressive and not just following everyone else around like midland do.

Used to be that a F1 Supelicense was only issued after the required number of hours in an F1 car had been reached, usually through testing.
How he came to get a license without the required time, I dont know.
I think when they made an exception to the rule for Kimi a precedent was set.

Then how come I couldn't get a drive

[GhoGho]

Used to be that a F1 Supelicense was only issued after the required number of hours in an F1 car had been reached, usually through testing.
How he came to get a license without the required time, I dont know.
I think when they made an exception to the rule for Kimi a precedent was set.

Then how come I couldn't get a drive

Hours behind the wheel of a Ute dont count

[Julian Mayo]

Used to be that a F1 Supelicense was only issued after the required number of hours in an F1 car had been reached, usually through testing.
How he came to get a license without the required time, I dont know.
I think when they made an exception to the rule for Kimi a precedent was set.

Then how come I couldn't get a drive

Hours behind the wheel of a Ute dont count

Harumph....broke the over 3 litre record in a vauxhall cresta in my first hillclimb.....(using the nom de plume M Mousse......I was 15).....took out 60ft of wire and posts on the second run.....the corner post hurt the car a tad)
got to within .05 of the outright record in a Ferrari 250LM at a certain antipodean track which is still in use (albeit in shortened form..Jack Brabham Corner no longer exists)...at 18yo........then got drafted.....jeez you can have fun in an APC.....til they bust you back to footslogger for "wilful misuse of military equipment".........2 year ago stayed within .02 of a certain SBS driver in SS utes around Oran Park.....kept my kid alive and SAFE in a 1440 Km dash in ten hours in the Northern Territory....(Damn, those Cape Buff are BIG ..........etc .....etc
So how come Ide/Kimi can and I cannot

[GhoGho]

Then how come I couldn't get a drive

Hours behind the wheel of a Ute dont count

Harumph....broke the over 3 litre record in a vauxhall cresta in my first hillclimb.....(using the nom de plume M Mousse......I was 15).....took out 60ft of wire and posts on the second run.....the corner post hurt the car a tad)
got to within .05 of the outright record in a Ferrari 250LM at a certain antipodean track which is still in use (albeit in shortened form..Jack Brabham Corner no longer exists)...at 18yo........then got drafted.....jeez you can have fun in an APC.....til they bust you back to footslogger for "wilful misuse of military equipment".........2 year ago stayed within .02 of a certain SBS driver in SS utes around Oran Park.....kept my kid alive and SAFE in a 1440 Km dash in ten hours in the Northern Territory....(Damn, those Cape Buff are BIG ..........etc .....etc
So how come Ide/Kimi can and I cannot

See you in the bar

[rah]

Harumph....broke the over 3 litre record in a vauxhall cresta in my first hillclimb.....(using the nom de plume M Mousse......I was 15).....took out 60ft of wire and posts on the second run.....the corner post hurt the car a tad)
got to within .05 of the outright record in a Ferrari 250LM at a certain antipodean track which is still in use (albeit in shortened form..Jack Brabham Corner no longer exists)...at 18yo........then got drafted.....jeez you can have fun in an APC.....til they bust you back to footslogger for "wilful misuse of military equipment".........2 year ago stayed within .02 of a certain SBS driver in SS utes around Oran Park.....kept my kid alive and SAFE in a 1440 Km dash in ten hours in the Northern Territory....(Damn, those Cape Buff are BIG ..........etc .....etc
So how come Ide/Kimi can and I cannot

Well I can see you know how to race, but you left out how much sponsorship dollars you can bring to the team.

[Julian Mayo]

Harumph....broke the over 3 litre record in a vauxhall cresta in my first hillclimb.....(using the nom de plume M Mousse......I was 15).....took out 60ft of wire and posts on the second run.....the corner post hurt the car a tad)
got to within .05 of the outright record in a Ferrari 250LM at a certain antipodean track which is still in use (albeit in shortened form..Jack Brabham Corner no longer exists)...at 18yo........then got drafted.....jeez you can have fun in an APC.....til they bust you back to footslogger for "wilful misuse of military equipment".........2 year ago stayed within .02 of a certain SBS driver in SS utes around Oran Park.....kept my kid alive and SAFE in a 1440 Km dash in ten hours in the Northern Territory....(Damn, those Cape Buff are BIG ..........etc .....etc
So how come Ide/Kimi can and I cannot

Well I can see you know how to race, but you left out how much sponsorship dollars you can bring to the team.

$2:73 and a used bandaid

[Julian Mayo]

Yammy replaces Frank after the French GP