Following the puzzling announcement that the Lotus F1 team had decided to hire a driver who in their entire racing career had never scored a single outright podium and for the past three seasons has been languishing at the back of the GP3 grid, Jake Sanson and the #Pitbored team decided to discuss the decision in full, The debate got very heated very quickly!
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The entire Downforce Radio team and myself wish her all the very best at Lotus and for the rest of her career.
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The problem people have with Jorda is that her results suggest that she should can’t cut it at the GP3 level, so there is no reason why she should have anything to do with an F1 team. As if to confirm the suspicions that her driving ability is not at the center of her employment, Lotus is using her as the presenter for their factory tour videos. That’s not something we ever saw from Gary Paffett at McLaren. Put her in a VdeV car or as a silver driver in a GTE Am car or a GTD car in the States, and I’ll gladly support her, but her F1 role is at best just about a big check.