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Sergio Perez. Mexico's greatest driver since Pedro Rodriguez?
Not that I want to get too carried away by his Thursday testing form but Perez has been a class act all the way through to F1.
He could so easily have been British F3 and GP2 champion by now if he'd had a bit more good fortune (and kept out of other people's accidents..). There haven't been a great many top line Mexican's since the early 70's but could Sergio be the first Mexican to win a GP since Pedro? |
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He won't even be the best of his generation.
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I have high hopes for both him and Guttierrez.
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Vettel and Sutil were both impressed by his lap times in testing recently, apart from that I don't know much about him
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I always liked Josele Garza and wished he had got that Minardi drive in 88 - he was very underrated.
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Agreed, Fernandez was pretty good. He was one of the front runners in Formula Ford over here in the late 80's but seemingly lacked the budget to progress to F3 or whatever?
Michel Jourdain and Mario Dominguez were alright, quick on their day, but Sergio has so far showed many glimpses of superstar potential in my book. His starting ability and further progress on an opening lap is reminiscent of Montoya and Hamilton, or even Alonso when he's in full on gung ho mode! |
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F1 is another story and time will tell if he will succeed. He has a good team for his learning years but I am sure he will be the equal of Kobayashi if not quicker. In Mexico we think Gutierrez is even quicker but I have a soft heart for Checo simply because he is from my hometown. Hopefully Mexico will have two race winners in the future. |
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T-Sport is not a midfield British F3 team. Sergio was leading the points by 32 after Monza, where he won both races from 14th on the grid. I think 2008 was a vintage year for BF3, so to have done as well as he did against the might of Red Bull and Carlin, who found a tweak for their three cars in the last third of the season, was very impressive.
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I had deliberately not mentioned Gutierrez as Perez is sort of one generation above him, but he is also looking a strong F1 potential.
Perez will surely have to deliver pretty quickly though, as Esteban is right behind him! I am sure the aim is for Telmex to have both of them in F1 long term, but there may only be enough room for one of them? It's not very often that a driver who is quick in both F3 and the next level up is slow in F1. I know that beinjg in the right car/team at the right time is paramount these days but I can't think of many who disappointed at the top having showed strongly below that (stefano Modena is a prime example) but that will be going a fair way OT!!! |
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That's because drivers fortunes are generally digited by F1 team managers, sponsors, manufacturers or even Bernie. How many #2 or lower team drivers didn't shine as they could because the impossibility to have privileges as other favoured drivers.
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Prost and Senna would probably have been equal, and Alonso and Hamilton probably had Hamilton as the favoured one, but they were pretty even, as are Vettel and Webber. I am open to suggestions where this was not the case, it is an interesting thought! Where has a clearly better driver been the number 2. |
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That was in the days of proper contracted #2 drivers though. Colin Chapman didn't have to trot out a load of old rhubarb about giving the drivers an equal opportunity, as Christian Horner has to do now. |
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Both Peterson and Villeneuve were massively quick at driving anything though poor at developing cars whereas Andretti and Scheckter were excellent. The point being that Peterson and Villeneuve would not have been nearly as quick without Andretti and Scheckter. Peterson and to an even greater extent Villeneuve were both prone to getting involved in "racing incidents". Scheckter and Villeneuve were equals at Ferrari, and I believe a myth was built up after the Monza race where Scheckter won and Villeneuve came second. Villeneuve and Scheckter I believe were treated as equals, shared a tremendous respect with Scheckter acknowledging that Villeneuve was the quicker, yet Villeneuve's determination to be the fastest on every single lap took its toll on the car and meant he lacked Scheckter's consistancy. In my opinion this was probably the greatest driver pairing of all time, only equalled (second to?) by Prost and Senna in talent, but they did not work together very well. |
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In my opinion Sergio will be "the find" of the 2011 F1 season.
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Could well have been, although Jones was the reigning WDC at the time.
Reutemann beat him in the points, and continued with the team in 1982,so it may have meant that by the end of the year he had done enough to have favoured status. Can you recall any specific examples of where Jones was favoured? |
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Telmex are for Mexican drivers the same as Red Bull are for pretty much anyone. They start their drivers very young, nut they have to keep delivering otherwise they get dropped. Salvador Duran is the prime example.
Perez was plucked from Brazil at a ridiculously young age, 14 or 15, and dropped in Europe to find his feet and prove his ability. As a result he has an inner steel that will be pretty useful this year. |
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I'm not entirely sold on Pérez, but I will say this about him: he's gotten better at every harder level of racing. His record in his earliest lower level series are pathetic, but as he got up to British F3 and GP2, he started to deliver. On the one hand, you wonder how good he really is because he's perfectly capable of producing a ****ter of a season, but on the other hand, seeing him raise his game to exceed his past form in an even more challenging series really shows a lot of promise from him. I think he'll have an up-and-down season for Sauber, but in time, he could be a contender if only because he's always gotten better in time.
I do think that both he and Maldonado belong, though, and I'm glad to see both get the shot (even if some may make Maldonado the scapegoat for who he replaced). |
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One poster in a different site said either Red Bull are sand bagging, the Sauber is a very quick car or Perez may be the next Senna. |
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Is Perez the fella who did that amazing comeback drive in BF3 a few years back? If so then he has got something special for sure.
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Perez may well be Mexico's greatest driver since Pedro, but that's more due to a lack of competition...
Sauber showing well in testing? Never seen that before... |
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