{"id":459162,"date":"2000-02-01T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2000-02-01T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=126099"},"modified":"2024-02-01T06:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T06:25:04","slug":"woulda-coulda-shoulda-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/woulda-coulda-shoulda-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Would\u2019a, Could\u2019a, Should\u2019a, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We posed the question two issues back, \u201cWho are the two Americans who would have been most likely to succeed in Formula One, but never tried?\u201d We gave early-1950s Cunningham ace Phil Walters as our first choice and asked you to guess the other. Well, here are the results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rick Mears\u2019 name came up often and indeed, the \u201cwhat-ifs\u201d are intriguing. In 1979, Mears won the Indy 500 and the first CART championship in his first full year with car-owner Roger Penske. Jackie Stewart touted the Californian to Brabham team owner Bernie Ecclestone, and in 1980, Mears tested in Europe and in the U.S. against Brabham driver Nelson Piquet. At Paul Ricard, Mears was only a half second behind the talented Brazilian. At Riverside Raceway, he was two to three seconds faster. Regardless, Mears passed on the opportunity, deciding to stay in CART with Penske. The following year, Nelson Piquet was World Champion in the Brabham. 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In 1979, Mears won the Indy 500 and the first CART championship in his first full year with car-owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":809673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,18114,18207],"tags":[17152,604,17143],"class_list":["post-459162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-people","category-special-feature","tag-car-culture","tag-f1","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Would\u2019a, Could\u2019a, Should\u2019a, Part 2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tim Considine reveals who he believes to be America\u2019s greatest untapped Formula One prospect.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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