Danica 'dead set' on move to F1.

after you have finished the race dear, fetch me a beer and wash the dishes.

While Danica is a very attracitve woman and her driving skills are fair to middling, I don't thnk 'big boobs' would be her problem getting into F-1. I can only surmise that Jensen has never seen Danica

as far as i remember, they met just after jenson said that comment lol. would be brilliant to see Danica in F1 though.

Forget rule changes this would make F1 more interesting lol

She's not good enough!

i like danica a lot but i dont think she can be gud for f1........she mite need to do gp2 but even then i dont think she can be btr than yamamoto

Well, at least the woman has top-flight aspirations. Good for her.
Having said that, I dont think any graduates from American racing series like Indycar have either the technical knowhow or the skill to make the move to F1.
Look at all the drivers in the past who've done this - Andretti, Villeneuve, JPM, Zanardi, et al. None of these guys set the F1 scene on fire.
Sure, Andretti and Villeneuve won a title each, but only when their cars were the clear class of the field.

NB - Nothing but respect for Zanardi after losing his legs and then racing professionally. The guy even ran a marathon in NY!!

I'll betcha Danica could beat Jenson "Never Won" Button in the F1 Honda, given enough time to learn the ropes of F1

Ghost - Zanardi was in F1 before he was in Indycar then he went back again so I don't know if he counts. Villeneuve was very good at setting up a car. I recall that he applied his Indycar set-up knowledge to F1 by making adjustments to one corner of the car rather than simply front or rear as was the custom in F1. So far Bourdais looks a lot stronger than Vettel.

Prior to F1 or Indycar most of these guys have come up through the same series so their background is not that different. Is there even anyone in Indycar these days who came up through sprint cars?

The problem is most the Indycar drivers settled for Indycar after not getting a F1 drive.

I say what I said about Bourdais: Why the hell not? Just go for it! The minute you start getting complacent you're no longer a racer in my opinion anyway. The trasition looks pretty huge though, so she'd need a LOT of testing to get used to an F1 car. GP2 might even be a good idea but even then she'd have a disadvantage from coming from racing heavy cars on ovals rather than F3's - but the world would still consider anything but wins a disappointment. The easiest thing would be to stay where she's at - which is exactly why I hope she doesn't.

Side note: LOVE Vettels response to the question about fitness!

Mark,you said it yourself - most indycar drivers "settled" for Indycar after not getting an F1 drive. If I were to generalize (and I am) I'd say that the American series like Champ and Indyca comprise 2nd-string drivers in 2nd rate cars.
Dont even get me started about NASCAR - watching a bunch of cars go round and round the same oval for dozens of laps is the entertainment equivalent of watching paint dry.

I also disagree with you abt Bourdais v/s Vettel. I think Vettel is a much, much better driver - he's the most horrendous luck this season - he probably hasn't even completed half a race distance in four races.
Having said that, he needs to preclude misfortune by qualifying higher.

Ghost - my disagreement with you post was regarding your statement that these drivers don't have the "technical knowhow or skill". There are a very limited number of seats available in F1, hence settling for the next best thing. This does not mean that there are only 22 drivers in world capable of driving well in F1. The trend lately has been to give open seats to a young driver over an experienced driver.

On Vettel how many championships does he have in any series? So far Bourdais is doing much better than him so I don't know how you can say he is much much better. Vettetl seems to be getting worse not better.

Mark, the mark of a good driver isn't necessarily how well he's done in a feeder series.
Take Kimi. The guy came straight from Formula Renault into F1 and was given a provisional superlicense (after qualifying for it) only on the basis of Peter Sauber's word. He never went into GP2, and now he's a world champion.

Yes, Bourdais is doing better than Vettel right now, but that's because Vettel has had the most unbelievably bad luck so far this season.

But you said it youreslf ghost.
Bad luck caused by not qualifying high enough on the grid.
Did he ever outqualified Bourdais so far?
And champcar may or may not be a 2nd rate serie, Bourdais TOTALLY dominated it, and not just for some short amount of time.
As far as i'm concerned, looking at past achivment and actual performance, Bourdais do seem to have the upper hand on Vettel.
Just hope the german find a way to shake up that bad luck of his back, then we will have a clearer picture of who is the best of the Seb.

LOL!!!
With that Seb thing, i completly forgot i wanted to comment on Danica.
I do hope that she got a ride in F1, but coming from an almost exclusively oval serie, it may prove very difficult.
What other have said about trying to get a feel of GP2 first do seem to be the best way to circumvent this problem.
But on what Button said, i'm thinking of something. Look at how small those cocpit are, the driver got their arms very close to their bodies. Could a woman boob really get in the way? I'm wondering. Those car had been designed with male physionomy in mind, can a woman fit in and feel comfortable?

Yeah!

Unless, of course, they have their boobs in their armpits. DOH.

Danica in F1 is laughable at best. She would be a mid-pack driver even in GP2. She has never been truly competetive on a road course. Hell, Motegi is her first win in anything other than a kart. And no, I do not count that silly celebrity race toward anything. She is merely average.

About the boops problem: Milka Duno fits in a IRL car! So i think there is no "boops problem". And otherwise if i was a team boss, i'll give her any size of ****pit she wants....In a third car as a test driver! Just for fun!

in response to Marks earlier comment id like to point out that JV was not that good at setting up a car. For proof, please watch Estoril 1997.

to Ghost,
do you remenber 2001 and 2003? wasn´t JPM who give MS a run for his money??? he was the only one who dared (and passed) MS several times... yes, he lost out in 2003, but sure Williams and the FIA helped to ruin his run for the championship.

Ed, I originally liked JPM. He was quick, a straight talker, and didn't seem intimidated by anyone or anything. But where was the consistency? In F1, you have to be quick AND consistent, merely having one of those qualities isn't enough.

JPM was capable of the odd burst of speed and ba||sy overtaking maneuver, but that's about it. He couldn't sustain it. I got the impression that he was one of those guys who would make a move that depended too heavily on the other guy getting out of the way.
Very rarely did he make a CLEAN move that didn't need evasive maneuvers by the guy he was making the move on.

And again - consistency. He just didn't have it.