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| F1: Lollo Rosso signings spark feeder series war |
by Mathias Olaf Uncertain
3rd Jan 2012 |
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The news that Lollo RossoTORO ROSSO
 Sebastian Vettel takes a frankly astonishing first win for both himself and his team at Monza in 2008. Forged from the remnants of Minardi, Toro Rosso is Red Bull's junior F1 team. The arrangement lets Red Bull (a) try out unproven young drivers and (2) take cocky french multiple Champ Car champions down a peg or two. The team benefits from an unspecified amount of help from its senior team but is still free to plough its own furrow. In 2007, for instance, it used Ferrari engines rather than the Renault power units favoured by Red Bull, which proved, if nothing else, that the Ferrari team must have had one hell of a chassis. Toro Rosso has yet to inspire the same level of support enjoyed by Minardi, although it was on the right lines when a senior manager occasioned a physical assault upon the wholly objectionable Scott Speed. Keep it up, lads, and we'll put our not inconsiderable weight behind you.
British F3 cites the fact that Richandstrange and Eric-And-Ernie were its 2009 and 2010 champions respectivelike in support of its claim to be "the world's leading Grand Prix feeder series", while WSxR emphasises the historic moment of having former rivals from its ranks going on to compete in the same F1 team as "cementing World Series by Renault's reputation as the springboard for reaching motor racing's top table", a veritable smorgasbord of metaphors.
Both serieses are claiming the credit for delivering the young drivers to F1, conveniently ignoring the facts that (a) they were probably chosen by Lollo Rosso on account of the fact that both of them are members of the Red Rag Junior Team, and (2) it's only Lollo Rosso, for fuck's sake.
Interestingly, while the GP2 series insists that it is "the strongest Formula 1 feeder category", both FIA F2 and the F3 Euroseries are tight-lipped as to how effective they are on the Road To F1™. But who is right? Which feeder series really is the best when it comes to delivering Formula 1 drivers?
dotdotdotcomma's finest minds are now irrevocably committed to calculating the answer to the Ultimate Question Of The Road To Formula 1.
So watch this space.*
* But it's probably best not to hold your breath, as regular readers who have been waiting for this information for the last five years or so will already know. Breathe, Virgil! Only seven-million-four-hundred-and-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-five years to go...,
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