Re: Narain Karthikeyan back in F1! News Narain Karthikeyan back in F1! 6 January Quote:
Originally Posted by Gansan So the TATAs are ignoramuses and are merely blowing up their money?
Let me put a hypothetical question. Assume for a moment there are foreign cricket (club) teams similar to football teams. An Indian with bags of money buys one such team, names it India Super Force (with no Indian players), that team plays a match with the Indian eleven at Mumbai. Which team would you root for? Which team do you think the crowd will root for?
I know that F1 team drivers are beyond nationality. But Indian crowds are not that mature yet. So if the sport is to become popular here, there have to be Indian drivers, even if they don't win. |
Quite the opposite. Tata have played a huge masterstroke by bringing in the guy who generated a lot more hype than Chandhok. Sponsoring Chandhok wouldn't have made the impact that hiring Karthikeyan did. Tata is a business, and barring the charitable work that they do, their aim is to make money, however ruthlessly it may be.
As for the hypothetical question, it is not comparable to the F1 scene as the Indian driver in question has got in through money and not skill. Quote:
Originally Posted by VW2010 Give a Ferrari to NK or a HRT to Alonso to judge a driver. The sport is completely based on how good your car is. We saw how good a car the Red bulls were last season and the catching up from Ferrari was a little too late. Kovalainen finished 20th in 2010 while he finished 7th in 2008-2009. He was driving a Mclaren then. |
Schumacher finished 7th in a Jordan. Webber finished in the points in his first race for a Minardi. Vettel made an impact in his first proper year driving for a Torro Rosso at a rainy Monza. Kovalainen, while finishing 7th, was thoroughly beaten by his teammate in the same car. So while one car finished 1st, the other one finished 7th. Don't know what more evidence you need that the driver is as important as the car. Quote:
Originally Posted by VW2010 The driver skills can be judged only in a car that has the pace to lead the front pack. Schumi was cribbing about the car the whole year and afterwards. He was slower than Rosberg and blamed the car. This is our famed champion blaming the car when Rosberg driving the same car was atleast 0.5 of a second faster and drove like someone who could have won a race.
How can one judge NK when he is driving the last four cars in the race. And Schumi/Alonso/Hamilton did not struggle to get into the F1 as NK did. What facility do we have to support a budding driver in India. We dont have facility to promote Hockey or for that matter any sport except cricket.
Am i proud to see NK in F1? "Oh Hell yeah"(Austin 3:16 style). |
See my post above about the car and the driver.
And Schumacher WAS slower than the previous years, no idea why you decide to bring that up to prove a point since that has been agreed upon by everyone. Unless you are the one who want to blame Mercedes for Schumacher's poor showing.
And just to put it in context, we have a 7 time world champion returning 3 years later, in a top team, getting thrashed by his teammate. And we have the Indian driver returning 5 odd years later, who has been racing trucks (yes, they are called trucks) and hasn't put his bum in an F1 car for over 3 years now. In the worst car on the grid. His only competition will be his teammate, and we will see what happens. Quote:
Originally Posted by Hatari Do realise that with his F1 race drive Narain did what other citizen on India has ever done before. DOESNT THAT IN ITSELF COUNT FOR SOMETHING AMAZING?
Give the guy some credit. |
The credit was given when he made his start on the grid a few years ago. Buying your way back into F1 doesn't deserve any credit, unless the credit is given to the sponsors for handing over the money. Quote:
Originally Posted by 2theMax Mods : I would suggest the thread be closed. |
I don't understand the point of creating the thread then, unless you wanted it to be an ensemble of people cheering on a guy for spending a load of money. But hey, that's what happens in India everywhere, so I guess I answered my own question.
Last edited by Amartya : 17th January 2011 at 12:14.
Reason: Edited post to remove an inappropriate word. Please avoid using words which have offensive connotations.
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