Spyker MF1 wrote:Albers is not only Dutch but is a lot faster than Monteiro and doesn't have a habit of spinning the car for absalutly no reason.
This is the kind of thing that, if said often, might be acknowledged as true. Monteiro had, in 32 races,
1 DNF because of an unforced mistake. Spinning? Yeah, I remember him spinning twice this season when Sato hit him, once in Barcelona, while he was outperforming Albers in lap times and one silly mistake in the qualifying at Brasil. Do you recall anything else? Is this a shameful record?
Monteiro is no super-driver, ok - like Speed, Klien, Sato, Webber, Coulthard, Heidfeld, Barrichello (...) aren't. 2006 would always be a difficult year, given that Albers is a quick driver and was terribly underrated after his Minardi year. Furthermore, to get a fantastic drive as he did in Spa 2005 to get a 8th place in that crapbox that was still called Jordan would be difficult - furthermore if your teammate when isn't faster than you tries hard to smash into you (Monaco 2006, Albers).
But this is not a big concern. The Spyker still is a crapbox, they don't even have yet a title sponsor or money to build an interim car, will only start testing in February(!) and their comments on how pointless is to test when they already know Bridgestones - although every other 2006 Bridgestone client recognizes that the 2007 tyres are completely new and work very differently - are ridiculous. Bottom line - to worry about not having a portuguese driver in F1 driving a piece of junk, in the year after Montoya and Villeneuve were kicked out of F1 makes no sense.
i didn't know FIA was behind that