Grand Prix Rejects

Lest we forget, Michael Schumacher went to Jordan with a Checque from Merc.... Seven Times World Pay Driver.

kostas22 wrote:However the best example of an F1 legend having to pay his way into the sport has to be...

HWNSNBM

But didn't his sponsors pull out at the 11th hour at Minardi, with fans coming together to support and secure the drive? I remember hearing about that back in 2004.

I meant a driver who was a pay driver when they won the world title. I know that a fair number of F1 drivers start as pay drivers.

But I think USF1 has the money to get on the grid and to last the whole year, I just think they don't have the knowledge to be any quicker than ... well, 10 seconds off the pace.

Cynon wrote:I meant a driver who was a pay driver when they won the world title. I know that a fair number of F1 drivers start as pay drivers.

But I think USF1 has the money to get on the grid and to last the whole year, I just think they don't have the knowledge to be any quicker than ... well, 10 seconds off the pace.

I think Fangio could be the case, since he had strong national govern backing when in F1 (and he won 5 out of... eight seasons?)

RejectSteve wrote:

kostas22 wrote:However the best example of an F1 legend having to pay his way into the sport has to be...

HWNSNBM

But didn't his sponsors pull out at the 11th hour at Minardi, with fans coming together to support and secure the drive? I remember hearing about that back in 2004.

Yes, his representants created a HWNSNBM backing club after his sponsor, Mol Rt, reduced its support. This happened when HWNSNBM signed for Minardi.

HA!
Sorry to bump this thread, but, speaking of HWNSNBM...

I've found the real reason why USF1 have signed López.
Before 2010, López was winning in TC2000, the Argentine national touring car championship, and look what I found, you see, there was another driver competing in TC2000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximiliano_Baumgartner

Waris wrote:HA!
Sorry to bump this thread, but, speaking of HWNSNBM...

I've found the real reason why USF1 have signed López.
Before 2010, López was winning in TC2000, the Argentine national touring car championship, and look what I found, you see, there was another driver competing in TC2000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximiliano_Baumgartner

There. And I thought it as all a big mistake.

Waris wrote:HA!
Sorry to bump this thread, but, speaking of HWNSNBM...

I've found the real reason why USF1 have signed López.
Before 2010, López was winning in TC2000, the Argentine national touring car championship, and look what I found, you see, there was another driver competing in TC2000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximiliano_Baumgartner

Wow, it's like an epic mash-up of Max Papis and HWNSNBM. Now all we need is Yuji-Denis Inoue.

Phoenix wrote:

BigG80 wrote:

Cynon wrote:Are you suggesting that we had a pay driver win the World Championship?

Yes, Niki Lauda. He started as a pay driver too....so I've heard.

Yes..sort of. He took a large bank loan to buy himself a seat at March. I think he returned it with the money he got signing for BRM in 1973.

Nigel Mansell remortgaged his house TWICE (it may have only been once though...) so he could carry on racing in a competitive F3 car, which then caught the eye of Colin Chapman at Lotus, and then the rest we know about....

watka wrote:

Waris wrote:HA!
Sorry to bump this thread, but, speaking of HWNSNBM...

I've found the real reason why USF1 have signed López.
Before 2010, López was winning in TC2000, the Argentine national touring car championship, and look what I found, you see, there was another driver competing in TC2000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximiliano_Baumgartner

Wow, it's like an epic mash-up of Max Papis and HWNSNBM. Now all we need is Yuji-Denis Inoue.

So that driver would swerve back and forth and eventually end up flipping the safety car over in the gravel trap?

thehemogoblin wrote:

watka wrote:

Waris wrote:HA!
Sorry to bump this thread, but, speaking of HWNSNBM...

I've found the real reason why USF1 have signed López.
Before 2010, López was winning in TC2000, the Argentine national touring car championship, and look what I found, you see, there was another driver competing in TC2000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximiliano_Baumgartner

Wow, it's like an epic mash-up of Max Papis and HWNSNBM. Now all we need is Yuji-Denis Inoue.

So that driver would swerve back and forth and eventually end up flipping the safety car over in the gravel trap?

That would be epic indeed. He'll hopefully be driving a StefanGP car at the time.