So over the past 20 years or so, who would it have saved us from? Yuji Ide who was successful in Japan and had nearly 40 super license points? Was the issue there that he was inept or his team was crap and there wasn't much testing? Chandok and Senna? GP2 winners after all(but not very high) but same issues with their teams being terrible and them not getting any running ahead of time. You could have put the reigning F2 car in the Super Aguri or the Hispania and they'd still have been in the way.
There have been a lot of ride buyers but who has truly been unworthy?
Ide, Yamamoto, Yoong.
I do think you have a point that the reason why this happened is the teams were running on fumes. Thanks to F1 dramatically increasing in popularity and the budget cap and the scarcity of the 10 franchises, this isn't really a massive issue anymore. But it was an ongoing issue for a very long time before. It was worse in the 90s, we really had some dismal ones then, the Lavaggis and Deletrazes and Philippe Adams etc etc.
People the other day on the chat were mentioning (you can name yourself if you're lurking, mate
), quite rightly, that if it wasn't for the Superlicense points we'd probably have had Gelael, Roy Nissany, so we don't know for sure to what extent it has worked, maybe it's done more good than it looks like at first.
So idk I think I'm pro relaxing the system, certainly for some series like Indycar, but I'm not 100% sure of getting rid of it, I think there's pros and cons.
Edited by noikeee, 19 September 2022 - 22:25.