It's been bugging me for a while, but looking again at the driver line-ups, I have to say that a lot of them seem to be pretty second rate, a lot of them are just bigheads with bigger pockets.
Obviously there are exceptions; it's very predictable that either Cappello, Tom K, Mc Nish or Biela, Pirro, Werner are odds on to win. All these guys are top flight and so is Joest. But what of the other teams?
Lister, a rubbish car from a rubbish designer (Andy Thorby, responsible for the big Panoz cock-up a few years ago), with a pretty dreary driver lineup.
Pescarolo, why do they all have to be French? They're not too bad an outfit but really Henri, broaden your horizons! The odd foreigner wouldn't water down the essential Frenchness of your team.
Swiss Spirit, waste of time showing up.
Creation, good bunch but how are they really expecting to match Audi with that driver line up?
DfH sorry RfH, it's all looking a bit tired, uncompetitive and out of date really.
Looking at LMP2, some okay drivers but no stars (except Wallace who is pushing it a bit on age) and most are just pay-to-drive hacks.
And finally, what really bugs me is that Aston Martin cannot find it in their hearts to find room for even one British driver out of the six in the team, even with a car numbered 007. And of the drivers chosen, well, just compare Picini or Tropinat to anybody in the Vette team and they simply don't stack up. In fact, I'd rather see Oliver Gavin and Corvette win than an Aston driven by three foreign blokes. I'm not a jingoistic or overly-patriotic person but is it too much to ask to dig out a hard racing Brit?
