FORMULA DRIFT Long Beach April 8-9, 2011 Predictions?
By deadpirate i believe that EOS will prove that statement wrong bebop.
all of erics issues this year were vehicle related. that car never ran properly until long beach…then it caught fire. yet in prodrift, first round out eos wins.
dean kearney was battling an incompent team that insisted on using hariguchi suspension settings for a driver that isnt hariguchi. once that got sorted out, the motor blew up.
kearney had a rough year, but i think once he finds his groove you will see he is a better driver than you give him credit for
By Bebop I hope they can, especially EOS. No excuses if he fails next year.
Gotta remember, I’m a statistics guy… I look at what drivers have done not what they potentially could do. Now if Mad Mike doesn’t come back I will have alot of respect for him. He showed up and drove his best, gave a show for the crowd, represented his sponsors well, learned and went back home hopefully a improved driver.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I want FD to be filled with potential champions. Every weekend any driver can take it, if your not gunning for the championship give the crowd a good show(make them remember you). If your doing neither quite frankly your just taking up a slot. And if a driver is happy about that….ehhhh, I wouldn’t sponsor him. The “I’m just happy to be here” line is gracious but old, not enough drivers saying “I just want to win” or “I just want to make some fans”.
By Slapshotnerd nothing. It’s not Formula D’s obligation to get ANYONE to be able to compete here. They produce the most competitive series in the world, and the proof is in the pudding. Drivers from around the world are doing whatever it takes to compete here, and sourcing their own sponsorships. Did FD help Mad Mike or Freddy Aasbo with the NFS sponsorship? nope. Did FD help D-mac land the Falken gig? Nope. Did FD help Dean Kearney with the V-leds deal? nope. Did FD help EOS with Rockstar, Hankook, or Gardella? nope. All those drivers landed those sponsorships on their own accords. FD has honored the licenses of all of these drivers to help them drive here, which is the same thing they have done for previous D1 drivers (Miki, Yamanaka, Takatori, Orido, Yoshioka, etc). That’s all FD has to do is allow them to run IF they find sponsorship. Everyone else has worked hard for sponsorship, if a Japanese driver can’t afford to come, that’s not FD’s obligation or fault.
Each driver is given equal opportunity and equal access to negotiate their own sponsorship. If Sponsors don’t want to sponsor a driver because they don’t like the color of their eyes, the way they do their hair, or the brand of deodorant they wear, that’s their obligation. FD can’t change that.
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