We’ve said it before but it seems like its finally happening to the much loved self styled veteran racer Nelson Piquet Jr is finally getting the chop and that Hungary will be his last race. Romain Grosjean the French Swiss might be taking over – Is he fast enough? I wonder. Considering he was a close runner up to Lewis Hamilton in GP2 – that is quite surprising. One only has to again compare Kovy the runner up to Rosberg and you can see that the latter is clearly a better driver – more gifted and more natural.
Makes you wonder if GP2 is necessarily the finishing class for Formula 1? Why is it that some drivers succeed and yet others flounder? Is the gap between F1 and GP2 too great? Or do we all blame the lack of track time for the poor acclimatisation of GP2 drivers to drive in F1?
Certainly Lewis Hamilton and Timo Glock have shown their places are well deserved. Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica are non GP2 and came from World Series by Renault but then they were the F1 Friday drivers for BMW. Its easy to blame track time until you realise Nelson and Kovy both had 1 years testing with Renault so perhaps a combination of factors.
One things for sure is that F1 magnifies the difference between fast drivers, the fast and precise drivers, and the greats (fast, precise, consistent and god damn lucky!)