Should all sportscar fans be watching GP2?

[Simmi]

The question is only half serious. But does anyone watch this series?

A lot of jokes get made about F1 being a feeder series for the WEC.

GP2 is the real feeder series, and after 9 seasons the amount of ex-GP2 talent making up the current WEC grid is significant.

Olivier Pla, Toni Vilander (2 rounds), Neel Jani, Nicolas Lapierre, Lucas di Grassi, Mike Conway, Alvaro Parente, Filipe Albuquerque (4 rounds), Davide Rigon, Sam Bird, Oliver Turvey, Fabio Leimer, Brendon Hartley (multiple appearances), James Calado.

Plus guys who went GP2 via F1 to sportscars: Sebastien Buemi, Bruno Senna, Gianmaria Bruni, Karun Chandhok.

Don't forget other drivers like Alex Premat, Adam Carroll, Yelmer Buurman, Nelson Panciatici, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Ho-Pin Tung, Tristan Gommendy. There's plenty of fringe guys you can also name.


Obviously there's nothing new about this in terms of drivers going the single seater route and ending up in sportscars. But with the top three from last year's series racing at Silverstone in two weeks and also Le Mans - you know more guys on the grid are looking.

Of the current 2014 crop Jon Lancaster and Nathanael Berthon were at the recent ELMS test. Alex Rossi did Le Mans last year. How long before we see Jolyon Palmer in sportscars?