[EricH]

The driver is nothing without the coach and the operator. If the three do not work well together for some reason, then you will not do well. A fair portion of 330's success from 2005-2008 is due to the fact that our driver, operator, and coach worked extremely well together.

Rules knowledge is important too. If a driver gets a lot of penalties, then they need to know why they got them. Also, if you have a question about a call, then the driver, operator, or human player needs to be the one to bring it up to the head ref. They can't do that if they don't know the rules.

Driving ability is nice, but not everything. It's the easiest to test, but there are finer aspects that can make life miserable, like coming back towards you front-first. It's easy to get messed up doing that.