Talents want to follow Verstappen: 'At the expense of American racing'
Many young American racing talents are choosing a career in racing open-wheelers. That's because of the growing popularity of Formula One in the United States. Former NASCAR champion Kevin Harvick, among others, is concerned about this.
The fact that Liberty Media wants to grow Formula 1 in the US is no secret. Recently, the arrival of the Las Vegas Grand Prix confirmed the third US GP. With a view to a bigger calendar, more races in the US and more street circuits, Liberty Media hopes to increase the popularity of the sport. That seems to be working out quite well, as drivers in other racing classes such as NASCAR and IndyCar are concerned about the increasing popularity. NASCAR driver Harvick says the Netflix series Drive to Survive has also contributed in large part to that.
Talents want to chase Verstappen
Harvick is a big fan of the series and has watched all the episodes, but at the same time the American also wonders if Formula 1 is not saturating American racing. His son, Keelan, is an up-and-coming karting talent and dreams of later competing against his big idol, reigning F1 champion Max Verstappen. NBCSports quotes Harvick as worrying, "I live close to the karting track and none of those kids want to drive IndyCar; they all want to race in Formula One."
"They all want to drive for Ferrari or Red Bull. I was talking to Jim France [CEO of NASCAR, ed.] about how we can make sure all those young talents whose dreams don't come true still become racers. How can we get the great ones among them to NASCAR." Harvick says it's much harder to go down the path of the "open-wheelers. The young drivers would have to go to Europe, and not everyone has the money to take advantage of such opportunities. Harvick closes disappointed, "In karting, they don't have the dream of racing in NASCAR and they don't have the dream of racing in the IndyCar Series."
Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja. You make good garbage. Cream rises to the top and if not good enough, pay to play. What changed?
After they fail in F1, they can try Indy, then NASCAR if they totally suck at driving. F1: fast with turns Indy: Kinda fast, mostly lefts. NASCAR: Mostly just left turns
Difference of driving in a "round and round" vs F1 is night and day. Bluntly Nascar is boring and dramatically easier.
Liberty Media Name says it all. Perhaps the reason why there was so much "drama" last year. Orchestrated by the media. Liberty Media.
Its also possible, look at Michael, scratched for used thrown away tires of the rich. So ...STOP with the negative
One can become President but soon 30 can become F1 drivers, that's a 30 x 100% more chance
When the younger generation American kids find that it is more fun to drive a car by going round corners (both to the right as well as to the left) and having to brake hard and accelerate hard as well, they will gravitate towards the sport, compared to what they have been used to watching, ie. driving flat out going in counter-clockwise circles only!
There are 6 road course races on the schedule in Nascar this year.
Some on here have not coped with the point of the article. Bottomline, Max Verstappen is the superstar King of F1 after his brilliant display to become World Champion in 2021 in a slower car and is the inspiration the majority of up and coming drivers with dreams of joining F1.
Slower car? Only like 4 tenths faster in qualifying in jeddah and abu dhabi and then he crashed in jeddah and in the last 4 races had 10+ seconds put on him by Lewis. We know that Lewis won in 2021??by12 seconds?
Tristen who took the title tho if ham won by 12 points you need to go back to school to learn maths
Funny how you like to refer to stats hey. Look at stats and tell us who the best ever F1 driver is. Who has the majority of the record. Since you want to use numbers to back up your point. My point is figurative and not literal
Even without looking at stats it easy to see max won when he was the one who took the title home. He was the one presented with it at the awards. Not rocket science
Yes he was p10 because ghe pit lane was closed smarty. He would have come out P6 infront of Ocon if pit lane was open. Clearly you are not very smart. You asked who took the title. According to stats Max won the championship. Therfore you were referring to stats smarty.
Merc didnt have the fastest car in2017 or 2018 amd for a large part of 2021. What about 2007and 2008? Where he beat Alonso when Lewis was only a rookie
Can u read? We're did I mention stats. Learn to read before you reply. Lewis has the records no1 can disagree with that but records are there to be broken an tbh he onli got the records because he had a far more superior car than the rest. Look at him now a lucky p3 an a p10 he's team mate p4 an p5 rookie levels
Rephrase your question to read like this: Who won the title through Masi's manipulations (aka human error)?
In the end, the king maker was fired and the kinship was investigated and found out to be manipulated by Masi's error. Therefore the MAC is fake.
With a name like LH4real.. we all knew who's cck you like to gawk.
i wouldn't worry about kids wanting to drive in F1. Those dreams will be crushed as only an extremely limited amount of drivers in Europe ever get the chance.
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