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easy_rider911 said:
No drivers at present from North America, the rest of South America and India with none yet from Africa, Middle East, Russia, China, rest of Europe.
I wonder what kind of factors determine which countries the drivers come from. I imagine it's an advantage coming from a country where there is an established hierarchy of lower formulae which 'feed' drivers into F1, drivers from some countries may find it easier to attract their own individual sponsors who will indirectly bring money into the poorer teams, the geographical location of the F1 teams etc etc....
Would you like to see F1 open up with more drivers from different countries or are you happy the way things are?
Interesting point brought up
Like you said, the lack of feeder sports are the one of the main reasons why there is a slight lack of diversity in F1. The other problem is money. There are probably thousands of other people out there who would have been just as good as Hamilton, Alonso or Schumi but were never had opportunity to race due to lack of funding. Just look at all the F1 fan here on rennteam, the closest thing to an F1 car most of us have been in, is a gokart even that is expensive as hell. Driving a gokart for 2 hours is more expensive than what it cost to rent a Mazda MX5 for an entire day.
Karting and Formula sports are highly expensive and either your parents spread their wallets wide open or get lucky with sponsors. Some drivers like Rosberg, Piquet and Bruno are competing in motor sports only because their fathers or uncles were great drivers.
I wish that power brokers like Bernie, Webbi or Briatore would open up feeder programs in more countries to further open up Formula racing to the masses.