[Joe J.]

The way I see it is knowing how to drive the robot is only part of it you need to know the game rules before you can think about driving. My team always has the driver hopefulls take a test on the game rules. Their score on that is combined with their work time for that season and a robot driving test, the person with the highest collective score gets to be our driver.

If you want to drive go for it, let your team's driver selection process do its job, identify the best driver. Don't worry about there being rookie drivers there is always going be a rookie driver at some point, and from what I've seen they can do just as well as a seasoned vetran.