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The differences between F1 and GP2
05 June 2009GP2 is proud to call itself 'Formula One's strongest feeder series', with seven of the twenty current F1 drivers having made the jump from the championship formerly known as F3000 to the top step of the motorsport ladder at one point in their career. Toro Rosso's Sébastien Buemi, the most recent man to do so, talks us through the principal differences between the two championships.
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| Buemi scored two race wins and finished sixth overall for the Arden team in 2008 |
"I would say, from the point of view when you are driving the car, it is not such a big difference," commented the Swiss driver on Thursday. "Okay, you are faster, you brake later and you carry more speed into the corners, but I think it is more the way you work with the people around you; it's quite a big difference because you work with only one engineer in GP2 but when you arrive in F1 you have got so many people around you and, if you want to be competitive, you need to be doing a good job with all of them - I think this is the biggest difference and it is what takes a bit of time to be learnt."
Despite the inevitable mishaps, such as removing both himself and Nelson Piquet's Renault in the early stages of the Monaco Grand Prix, Buemi has enjoyed an impressive season so far in 2009, which includes scoring points in his first race as well as in China. "I think you see there is some potential here and there," he continued.
"In the end when you want to do the lap time you just need to use everything. After the race it is always 'I could have been better there, and there as well.' I think this is experience, just to be able to take everything together and then to put it in the qualifying lap, as this is where it counts."
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Paul Ricard
