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Originally Posted by ciaranob
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Originally Posted by tony20009
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What about "pay to drive" is so wrong re: Ms. Jorda? That approach to participating on an F1 team is not new. ( http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/21194933) Indeed, some very successful F1 drivers began their careers as "pay drivers."
- Niki Lauda
- Michael Schumacher
- Fernando Alonso
- Vitaly Petrov
- Sergio Prez
- Pastor Maldonado
- Bruno Senna
Besides, Lotus F1 is a new team. Odds are they need all the funding they can come by despite being owned by a Luxembourg venture capital firm. Indeed, Formula 1 racing is very much a corporate enterprise, and accordingly it applies a corporate business model.
It's naive to think that a corporate business model requires winning races. To the contrary, such endeavors need to generate cash flows and earn profits. If handing a seat on a test team to a lowly paid or unpaid driver in exchange for tidy sums of otherwise free financing doesn't make good business sense as a tactic for achieving near term business goals, then what on Earth does?
It's easy to sit before one's computer screen and write posts on B-posts that have romantic notions of sporting competition and podium glory underpinning them. Considering the longer term implications of bringing in a driver like Ms. Jorda are most certainly things that have crossed the minds of many an F1 Team owner. Regardless of the potential longer term consequences, the fact remains that a business must survive and prosper in the short term for "the long term" to ever arrive at all.
With regard to Ms. Jorda's specific appointment, I see the outcry against it as little more than sexism. Nonetheless, she's now on an F1 team. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see whether she ever competes in an F1 race and performs admirably.
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The key point you seem to miss is the 'untalented' comment - all of these other drivers demonstrated winning ability very early on whilst Jorda's driving record to date is truly dismal - basically has not won anything nor appears to show any promise of getting close to a podium. Thanks of the lecture on corporate business models :roll eyes:, but F1 teams are in the business to win as that is the #1 means of maximum publicity and profit - to think otherwise is truly naive. For me its about credibility and in this case a business direction that I certainly do not champion but to each their own. |
I would completely agree with you, if she was actually racing.