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Originally Posted by chunterer
Those circuits you mention are in the top list of challenging tracks a driver needs to know before F1 aren't they, the others probably being outside of Europe anyway?
The leaving it late thing is a good summary, in fact I can only think of a small number of guys who either didn't have out and out F1 connections or a thick wallet. Maybe Glock, even if he had done a couple of races and some testing years before, is the only one in recent times?
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re: the circuits... yeah. i mean there's enough technology in simulators to be able to get a fair idea of a place before you turn up anyway, and since drs there's less emphasis on the fine art of finding places to overtake that aren't in the manual. so it's arguably a lot less important than before anyway?
re: drivers...yeah, glocks one of the very few isn't he? d'ambrosio is another whose wallet eased his way. di grassi too, though he ended up going in a different direction to his f1 affiliation. any others?