The best Rookie ever thread.

[N I Tram]

Mansell was new to ovals though, and that represented a big part of the schedule in those days. Because Penske had the dominant car on road and street courses at the time, Nigel's wins mostly came on ovals in fact.

[Roninho]

But montoya did not have any oval-experience as well, and there where like 40% ovals on the schedule in '99. He won at 3 ovals that year, and had 2nd and 4th place finish.

Anyway, i remain at the thought that any driver with a bunch of F1-experience (or IRL) should not be able to run for roty. But that's personally, and i understand that Mansell was a semi-rookie since he never driven a oval in his life.