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Future Stars

After the price ceremony in Martinsville, Truls Lillebo was asked a series of questions about the future and the wrangling between Diesel and younger drivers.
Here is the summary of what the down to earth Norwegian had to say:

I'm really happy to win here in Martinsville as it was my first oval win, and I even got to beat Grandi. Allthough he didn't seem to be at his best with a quali at P7.

When it comes to Eduardo, I've got to say I'm a bit astounded. I never imagined he would be this arrogant. However i do agree that he is way better than the guys who thought they were the best, and also way better than me. Everyone can beat a F1 driver when they have a bad race/quali like i did.

My manager and I actually did a lot of research to the matter of training speed of the upcoming youngsters and compared them to the racers in F1. And the results points to that Diesel will be a very weak F1 driver in a few seasons.

Average single skill increase(like pace) per day:

Grandi: 0,76
Di Rado: 0,66
PSG: 0,61
Jukna: 0,56
Diesel: 0,32

As you can see, he's far behind both older and younger competitors, now let's look at some guys who might be seen in F1 soon at age 23 or less:

Rapido: 0,63
Gnojarzowski 0,57
Abramowicz 0,52

And some youngsters who have a way to go, but learning very fast:

Suchar 0,66
Marko 0,65
Tundra 0,65
Bezrukov 0,63
Novikov 0,61
Budellacci 0,60
Berger Jr 0,59
Monteiro 0,58
Lamy 0,58
Italiano Jr 0,58

And the Norwegian tag team:
Solberg 0,59
Lillebo 0,59

A lot of others are also close to or as high, but I can't make name them all. This is the future! The future stars of racing.