True Gav, there was alot of abuse for Badoer, whilst competiting at a time when F1 is at its closest.
Most of the abuse, though came from us, and journalists, and thinking about it, what right do we have to judge another drivers performance. Its easy to sit behind a screen and say he could have done this/that/the other and though we'd like to think it we do not have a single clue about how to even get one of these things round a corner a tenth of the speed they do. Giancarlo is proving the transistion is harder than many first thought.
We all know when you get used to doing something for almost about 10months its very difficult to adapt in the few hours. In time Giancarlo will be there, but so would have Luca. The difference really being, Giancarlo will be there quicker.
For rookies, such as Jamie is totally different, he's had to come in and simply learn! Not unlearn then learn! As for Luizzi, he's stepped up well it would seem.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL