Originally Posted by wbr:
Mac is right.
Another myth thrown around here much of the time is the drivers need dirt experience. The two teams we know in Indycar say that dirt racing teaches drivers bad habits and to avoid it if you want to drive high downforce cars on pavement. Driving karts succesfully on road courses is much more important for the driver looking to indy than any dirt car experience.
I would agre with that to a point, but the two most dominate NASCAR Road Racers of the past 10 years are two of the best USAC dirt talents ever. To quote a great movie "What we have here; is a failure to communicate".
Everybody wants to label everyone else. Everything has to be catagorized. This person is this and they only know that. Racers are racers and the best can drive anything. I believe that Montoya could wheel a midget as good as anyone; the same as I believe Jeff Gordon could have been a hell of a F1 driver. Mario for example was a spectacular dirt driver as well as road racer, the same as many of his contemporaries. The reason was is because they just raced. Anthing, everything, anywhere at anytime. Saying a dirt driver picks up too many bad habits is like saying a pavement driver can't "feel" the car because he isn't used to it being loose.