August 17th, 2013 (F1plus/Paul Godley).- No phrase has irked, frustrated and positively had me spitting feathers over the past 12 months more so than 'pay driver'. A term. A label. A tag. Hear those two words together and it'll immediately generate thoughts within many that sit uneasy in certain quarters. I'll get straight into it. My main gripe with the term is that quite simply, it's a non-term. Meaningless. Pointless. It seems that having financial backing now brings about it some kind of bad, unwanted label. That it's suddenly a bad thing. Bad for the sport, and bad for other drivers. To an extent yes, money over talent is never desirable, but in a sport where money matters, the money...
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