Aston Martin launches Driver Academy, signing Spaniard Mari Boya

[lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world]

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[ohulancutash@feddit.uk]

This seems like a significantly expensive waste of everyone’s time.

[sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz]

Motorsport in general? Or Aston signing this particular guy?

[ohulancutash@feddit.uk]

Having a driver development programme when one driver is welded to his seat and the other one drank at the fountain of youth.

[bright_side_@lemmy.world]

1. yes but 2. an investment into the future is surely not too early for alonso towards the end of his career

[bob@feddit.uk]

Unfortunately it's how every big team operates now.

[microw@piefed.zip]

Driver Academies are useful for other purposes as well. Binding juniors to yourself to at least have the leverage/managing relationship, controlling which competitor team in F1 or which other motorsports series they end up at. Aston benefits from having drivers for their WEC program for example.