maximilian
19th April 2010, 20:02
I thought since Karun Chandhok has his own thread, we should talk a bit about Bruno Senna as well.
I know it's early in the season, and the Hispania is probably as bad a car as you can get to try and impress people, but so far, he has been very invisible.
After being anticipated with quite some hype (narrowly missing the BrawnGP ride last year), his actual debut in F1 has to be considered rather lackluster, even weighing the fact he is driving a vastly inferior car [at least compared to the established teams], with his much lower esteemed team mate so far essentially being his equal.
With an eye on the other thread that talks about which driver is unlikely to get a seat in 2011, I was thinking that if this continues, Senna may well be out at the end of 2010 - especially if it's really true that he's not bringing significant sponsorship money to the team (even though we do see some Brazilian sponsorship on the car), it would seem hard to justify to keep giving him this special treatment if a basically pay driver a la Chandhok can deliver the same performance AND $6 million, or whatever...
What do you all think?
I know it's early in the season, and the Hispania is probably as bad a car as you can get to try and impress people, but so far, he has been very invisible.
After being anticipated with quite some hype (narrowly missing the BrawnGP ride last year), his actual debut in F1 has to be considered rather lackluster, even weighing the fact he is driving a vastly inferior car [at least compared to the established teams], with his much lower esteemed team mate so far essentially being his equal.
With an eye on the other thread that talks about which driver is unlikely to get a seat in 2011, I was thinking that if this continues, Senna may well be out at the end of 2010 - especially if it's really true that he's not bringing significant sponsorship money to the team (even though we do see some Brazilian sponsorship on the car), it would seem hard to justify to keep giving him this special treatment if a basically pay driver a la Chandhok can deliver the same performance AND $6 million, or whatever...
What do you all think?