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PostPosted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 5:53 pm 
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Monday & Tuesday's preseason testing at Suzuka will be live streamed on YouTube

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:25 pm 
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i'm just curious since i don't follow this series:

according to you how come no good Japanese driver has ever emerged from that country?

- they have great circuits where to learn how to race
- they have a great motoristic tradition
- they have at least six big motor companies worldwide succesful
- they have top class enginers and know how
- they have proper formula series like this one
- they're a rich and popolous country
- they had many good motorbikes pilots

how come not a single top class driver has ever emerged from this country? it is a mistery to me.


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cambridge wrote:
i'm just curious since i don't follow this series:

according to you how come no good Japanese driver has ever emerged from that country?

- they have great circuits where to learn how to race
- they have a great motoristic tradition
- they have at least six big motor companies worldwide succesful
- they have top class enginers and know how
- they have proper formula series like this one
- they're a rich and popolous country
- they had many good motorbikes pilots

how come not a single top class driver has ever emerged from this country? it is a mistery to me.


What I always heard is that some Japanese drivers, had some trouble communicating with foreign engineers and mechanics, due to difficulties with the english language, but I really never knew how much of that is true and how much is just speculation, as we have drivers like Sato who are outside Japan for a long time and we have several foreign drivers who join the Japanese series and succeed there!

By the way, Andre Lotterer the fastest driver on the Super Formula grid, just set the series unnoficial record at Suzuka during the pre season tests this week, with an incredible lap at 1:35.1! The pre season tests are set to continue at the end of the month, this time at Fuji. As soon as the pre season tests are over, I'll be posting the new 2017 season thread with all the information regarding teams, drivers and all news ahead the following season!

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:37 pm 
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a big reason is that Europeans don't like most outsiders so it takes a strong willed person on top of a talented driver to do business there. Coupled with the exclusivity of the sport, the fact that having a mature ladder actually HURTS the likelihood of a talented driver coming through (familiarity is why Konayashi made it as far as he did), and then you have diet, and no country in Europe that shares a language with Japan, and there you have a collection of reasons why.

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