Imagine Piquet reverts back to his slop form and Renault, despite his huge financial backing, decides to ditch him. Who, then, for a team-mate to Alonso? I’d say Davidson, but I’d hope he ends up in a better situation than Alonso’s number two. Roman Grosjean, most likley, but if Giorgio beats him soundly for the GP2 title…..

Pair up Pantano with Alonso in 2009.

Crazy, yes, and I know it will never happen, but consider….
- He’d be dirt-cheap to sign, and there would be no question he’d be the number-two man in the team. Essentially, another Fisi in some ways.
- He’d bring a great deal of racing experience, even if it’s not much F1, but it would be more than many other rookies.
- If he succedes, great- keep him for a year or two and let him contribute to the WCC. If he flops, just write him off and bring in Big John.

Again, it’s crazy, and it’s about a million to one odds that it would happen. Then again, for those of you here in the U.S., I would suggest you see a shrink just a few years ago if you told me Brett Favre would be on bad terms with the Packers, and could end up playing for the Bears or Vikings this season….

Of all the drivers currently in GP2, Pantano may be the most ready to come into an F1 team and contribute right away. After all, if the guy’s still doing well after an apparently rocky career, he must have something working for him. So, I fell he should at least be considered highly by some teams for at least a test seat.

The tough thing is that he dose have age against him, and with so few seats to go around, most teams would be hard-pressed to bring him aboard when younger, more exotic talents are rising up the ranks. If he dosen’t break back into F1, he should indeed look at the IndyCar series, as perhaps he could establish something there.

The lack of seats makes the amount of available talent a bit frustrating, doesn’t it?

If Pantano did move back to F1, he wouldn’t be the first guy to do it as we have seen from Glock. But the difference with Glock was that he was regularly testing F1 cars before getting a race seat. Pantano, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have attracted any attention from F1 whatsoever. I do think that it slightly unfair, but that’s the way it goes. Like I say, there are other GP2 drivers who probably have better long term prospects even though Pantano looks pretty handy at the moment.

Pantano has driven well this year but if he was that good surley he’d be on a developmental contract wiv one of the big teams, his only chance of an F1 drive is to win the title by a huge margin like Robert says.

There are sadly however younger and better (in terms of F1 scales) in guys like Di Grassi and De Grosjean and of course Bruno Senna, who i believe will drive for STR next year or at the very least get a testing drive wiv them. Daniel mentioned about Di Grassi and the guy will drive in F1 in 1-2yrs. Has a very good attitude for a young guy and after months testing iv Renault thought he’d go back to GP2 to race instead of testing. Renault clearly gave him the thumbs up to do so and if anything were to happen to Alonso/Piquet that ruled them out of a race then Di Grassi would get the call up now if im being honest. Very solid driver and dosn’t take risks which is rare in terms of a young driver.

In conclusion Pantano unless he wins the title by a margin (which he wont) wont be in F1 next year, a drive in America though as several have said wud look far better.

Agreed wiv Smith in regards 2 Klien/Davidson getting another crack at F1, however Klien will hav less choice wiv his row wiv Red Bull

But unlike Pantano’s rivals, Senna and Di Grassi, he looks like the kind of driver that could certainly handle racing in F1 next year. The others may need more time, but then again, jumping into an F1 race seat certainly didn’t harm Nakajima….this is a difficult one.