QUOTE (BMW_F1 @ Jan 9 2010, 18:43)
That does not matter, I can find you a dozen or more posts from people wanting to see Paffet drive in f1, remember when mclaren had plans to have a B team? Wasn't that the plan to give paffet his chance ? - he's also been linked to Prodrive.
Prodrive a small funded team with a driver like paffet was not a problem but now suddendly it is for usf1.
And I have no idea if DTM is better than T2000. Perhaps those guys down there in Argentina are way better drivers than DiResta, Ralf and co. And did Lopez drive for a top team in GP2? I don't remember.
It's hard to compare dtm with tc2000, Turismo Carretera and TRV6, the three biggest series in Argentina, but saying that DTM is more competitive is pure prejudice. When foreign drivers such as Jacques Villeneuve, Alain Menu, Robert Huff, Fabrizio Giovanardi, Rykard Rydell, Anthony Reid, Jordi Gen茅, etc. has come to race in the special TRV6 and TC2000 races some of them really struggle to find pace (Villeneuve and Giovanardi, for instance), others adapted quickly and were competitive, thou not better at all that the Argentinean guys (like Menu), but of course they were just "guest drivers" without the same time of testing that the local drivers (except for Reid, who was one of the main developers of the latest TC2000 Honda Civic 07, and still was a bit slow). Another point of comparison could be the FIA-GT round at Potrero de los Funes in 2008: Ricardo Risatti raced alongside Marcel F盲ssler in a Corvette and after a few laps he was as fast and even faster than the swiss in the same car. Now consider that, no so long ago, F盲ssler was a top DTM driver and that Risatti has showed nothing relevant since he returned to Argentina even when he had the chance to race as a works Chevy driver in TC2000. Or Cristian Ledesma who, if I'm not mistaken, never raced in Europe (even when he tested a F3000 car in Vallellunga in the 90s, almost breaking the track record. The team -I cant remember which one was- was excited about him and completed a part of the budget for him to race, but Ledesma was unable to reach the other part of the money) and, in his first contact with the Corvette by SRT he was running faster than the main driver of the team and getting one of the best results for them that year.
http://www.corsaonline.com.ar/2010/01/09/N...a-argentina.phpAccording to Corsa, Peter Windsor is flying to Argentina in January 20th and will announce L贸pez the next day. He will meet with Argentina's Tourism Office boss Enrique Meyer, with ACA president Jorge Rosales, and with the sponsors supporting L贸pez. In the previous days to that, L贸pez will be in Austria and the UK training with a F1 simulator.
