Having a famous racing father is seen as an advantage to their offspring trying to climb the single-seater ladder 🪜 But while the pros are clear, the cons often weigh heavy ⬇️
They’ve been there, done it and worn the T-shirt in F1. But for ex-GP racers, helping their offspring up the single-seater ladder is no easy pursuit. While a famous name helps to open doors, the rest is decided on the trackYou don’t have to look far to find the inspiration for the helmet design used by newly crowned Formula Regional Oceania champion Charlie Wurz.
“What I’m learning myself is to let them come. If they are opening up and say, ‘What do you think about tyre temperatures or set-up direction, should I confront my engineer or should I not?’, then it’s easier to give a direction.” Having years of finely tuned insight is all well and good, but how advantageous actually is it for the prospects of their aspiring young F1 racers when – such is the nature of youth – the last person they often want to listen to is their parents?
“Sometimes we can’t afford to do as much testing as somebody else, but we compensate. We have our own simulator, we do a lot of training, we’re going to start doing a bunch of shifter karts, we’re going to do everything in our power to maximise his performance.” “I did learn quite quickly, I just sit in the motorhome and enjoy the coffee,” smiles Wurz. “The teams want to make sure, ‘please don’t engage with us with your experience because we have to build it up together ourselves’, and you have to respect that.”
For all of these dads, who are so accustomed to being paid to race, the experience of going back to chasing sponsors has been an eye-opener. “It’s not easy,” admits Montoya. A successful racing parent is therefore no guarantee of a smooth path right to the top and, as Wurz points out, “it gives disadvantages too”. He takes a balanced view of the pros and cons.
Wurz scored F1 podiums for Benetton, McLaren and Williams but knows reaching the pinnacle of motorsport twice over will be a challengeWhen Alex Wurz’s youngest son Oscar steps up from karting this year, he will be immersed in “doing all sorts of different things” including Formula 4 and touring car tests, plus rallycross.
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