But was it not same issue with Alonso, Kimi, Seb and Lewis?
I agree that at times the immaturity does show but in terms of risk what bad transactions have the youngsters committed?
Bar Grosjean in his maiden years, Maldonado not fitting the criteria.
With the exception of Lewis, the others had been exposed to an F1 car. Seb spent nearly two years as BMW's development and third driver and had participated in 5 F1 practice sessions when F1 allowed teams to run a young driver on a Friday. Alonso had the odd test for Minardi throughout 1999 and 2000. Lewis made up for his lack of F1 exposure by being the oldest (22-years) debutant of the lot and having the longest junior career (6 seasons in winged single-seaters, including GP2).
For a direct comparison, in order to obtain his Super Licence, Kimi ran a full, error free, race simulation (300 km plus pit stops) in a private test at Mugello. Stroll, like all young drivers can now, earned his Super Licence without ever touching an F1 car. If Stroll was in Raikkonen's position, he'd have failed his test while on the other hand Kimi would not have been allowed near an F1 car because he did not have enough experience in the junior formulae. Seems a bit odd to me.
An F3 car has 150 kW, GP3s sit at 300 kW, GP2s at 450 kW while F1 cars pump out 750+kW. F3 to F1 is a massive jump and Stroll is showing us how big it is. Hopefully he comes right, I am a Williams fan after all, but its been a torrid time for him and the team.
Maybe teams should be allowed to run older cars intermittently throughout the season and let youngsters potter about so they can get a feel for F1?
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