There is a tendency to hire drivers for the fastest cars and bike streamliners that have not worked their way up through the ranks of land speed racing or in developing the vehicles. This is sorta odd and I cannot explain why. There have been many close to disaster events that skilled and experience drivers somehow made the right decisions and survive, like Arfons and Breedlove. It seems many of the less seasoned drivers do not. Having an experienced "old hand" like Andy Green at the wheel is a big, big, asset to this effort.