gav Wrote:
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> > I hope Jerome does well. He mentioned when doing
> the GP2 commentary that he was in talks over 2013,
> and a good result might put him in the shop window
> somewhat.
>
>
> The problem is, what constitutes a good
> performance? Qualifying for Q2? Top 10? Finishing
> within 30 seconds of Kimi? In a pack so tight,
> it'll be bloody hard to come out of the weekend
> with a stronger reputation than one went in. He'll
> have to go some to impress, but then it's Monza,
> so a bit different to every other track, so
> perhaps it won't be as much of a hindrance than it
> would have been at, say, Hockenheim.
>
> It's pretty impossible to judge performances for
> reserve drivers. Liuzzi, a driver who arguably was
> no more than a mid-field number-maker in F1 who
> hadn't raced that season, qualified in 7th place
> at Monza in 2009. Fisichella, a guy who'd raced
> season-long, was on pole and finished on the
> podium in the previous event, qualified 7th from
> the back at the same event.
I was sort of thinking perhaps a top 6 finish...bit ambitious perhaps but hey-ho...
That 2009 Force India was very good at Belgium and Italy. Liuzzi did get 7th, yes, but Sutil was actually 2nd on the grid for that race. Fisichella would probably have been closer to Sutil had he remained at FI, but of course the lure of driving a Ferrari at Italy was too big for him to stay.
Don't forget that the Ferrari that season was apparently difficult to drive. Raikkonen was used to it having driven the car for some considerable time, but Giancarlo had to align himself with a new chassis, a new engine and KERS.
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