What Would Grid Look Like...

[ESPImperium]

...if teams had to take part in old style "Non Championship" races and wernt allowed to put in their "Championship" drivers into their cars??

I have so far came up with a grid like this:

01/02: Red Bull-Renault = Daniel Riccardo/Jean-Eric Vergne
03/04: McLaren-Mercedes = Oliver Turvey/Lewis Williamson
05/06: Ferrari = Jules Bianchi/Daniel Zampieri
07/08: Mercedes GP = Sam Bird/Christian Vietoris
09/10: Lotus Renault = Romain Grosjean/Jan Charouz
11/12: Williams-Cosworth = Valtteri Bottas/Dani Clos
14/15: Force India-Mercedes = Antonio Felix da Costa/Yelmer Buurman
16/17: Sauber-Ferrari = Esteban Gutiérrez/Fabio Leimer
18/19: STR-Ferrari = Mirko Bortolotti/Carlos Sainz, Jr.
20/21: Team Lotus-Renault = Davide Valsecchi/Luiz Razia
22/23: Hispania-Cosworth = Josef Král/Michael Herck
24/25: Marussia Virgin-Cosworth = Robert Wickens/Mikhail Aleshin

Id like to see how many wrecks would be after that race, would be full of incedent for the race stewards!!!

[PlatinumZealot]

I Thinkg Garry Paffet deserves a chance. Luca Badoer deserves another on too.

[beelsebob]

I Thinkg Garry Paffet deserves a chance. Luca Badoer deserves another on too.

Paffet deffinately, and Senna is missing from Renault. I'd expect to see Chandhok there too.

[bot6]

How awesome would it be if they actually did this? Great for young drivers if they had a non-championship race just after the end of the regular season...

[donskar]

Well, in the dream world posited, anyone who attended would be a real enthusiast, because those "name" drivers would not draw a crowd! Being a reserve driver does not provide the path to the top that it once did. Remember when there were test drivers, and they actually got to drive the cars?

Non-championship races were regular events throughout the 60s, but with the teams' front line drivers behind the wheel. Also quite a few independents with year-old F1 cars and abominations like Cooper chassis with Ferrari V12 from a road car . . .

[Byronrhys]

Well if you wanted to attract the crowd with some 'name' drivers I would put Sebastien Loeb in a Red Bull, Valentino Rossi in a Ferrari, Jorge Lorenzo in the Mercedes and probably Bruno Senna and Marco Andretti in the Renault and thats just to name a few, could be a good charity event and fun.

[ESPImperium]

Danica Patrick, Jeff Gordon and some more NASCAR guys as well.

Suzie Stodart in a Williams too.

I was just making a quick grid with GP2/WSBR/GP3 guys but the likes of the above mentioned would totally make a massive draw for a "Non Championship" race or two.

[Byronrhys]

Hey and lets throw in the the normal GP drivers as stewards for good measure, lets see how they handle a race where people will probably make basic errors, too bad this won't happen until one of us becomes part of the FIA board

[ESPImperium]

Hamilton and Alonso on the same stewards pannel. Even better, Sutil and Trulli would be evtertaining. But would become stupid after a while.

[Mr Alcatraz]

Christian Klien in the RB7 would win the WDC, and RBR would win the WCC only racing a second car at European Races piloted by "The Ant"