Driver Myths Busted!
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I have started this thread because I regularly read opinions on various drivers which are either unfounded or outdated. I hope it goes some way towards a more fact based assessment of the 2015 grid!
1. Vettel is not a top driver, he only won because he had the best car. (Oh and he can’t race wheel to wheel!)
ZZZZ! Top drivers always end up at top teams spending top money to produce top cars. Are we suggesting that RedBull and now Ferrari are stupid idiots paying millions of dollars for his services?
Toro Rosso 2008, won a race in difficult conditions with a sub standard car. He is good in the wet; a mark of a good driver.
A qualifying specialist. 45 or so poles, outqualifying his team mates both in RedBull and Ferrari.
Malaysia multi 21 and Silverstone 2014. Two of the best sustained wheel to wheel, corner after corner battles I have seen for a long time.
Yeah, he’s rubbish!
2. Lewis Hamilton is weak minded, petulant and arrogant.
So was I in my twenties! Lewis is 30 now. 2nd WDC, good bad and indifferent seasons under his belt, personal and emotional upheaval behind him.
Look at the facts. He has become single once more to focus on his career. He represents himself giving his management company their marching orders. He is calm and completive. He is qualifying and racing better than ever. He manages his pace in races like a veteran. He is humble in victory but maintains a steely self belief.
Tattoos, chains, hip hop, dogs, jets….. irrelevant. He is polite, deferential, respectful, fast and successful. He’s grown and our opinions should keep pace.
And the next time I read ” yeah but in 2011″………@?*&!
3. Raikonnen can’t be bothered!
He would have quit if that were true!
His weakness is that he gets frustrated easily. He left McLaren because he got frustrated with reliability. A few less break downs and he would have won a WDC with them. He left F1 because he couldn’t get a race winning drive. He left Lotus because he got frustrated with the financial problems. Last year he got extremely frustrated with a chronic understeer problem.
People get frustrated when they care. When they don’t care they just shrug their shoulders and go through the motions. Kimi cares!
2008 was a dip for him but he didn’t quit F1 voluntarily. He got thrown out! He drove the wheels off a McLaren, drove the wheels off a Ferrari, drove the wheels off a Lotus and just now has driven the wheels off a Ferrari again.
He needs to get in a groove to perform so if he has an ice cream on a bad day it’s because he needs it!
4. Rosberg has lost the plot.
He has not been beaten by a team mate for a long time. This takes time to assimilate. Alonso went off the rails completely when Lewis was out performing him. Button had the humility to admit that Lewis was unbeatable when on form.
He is very fast over one lap but Lewis is untouchable at the moment and on his current form would beat any team mate, Vettel, Alonso and Schumacher included.
He hasn’t gone backwards, Lewis has gone forwards. One of the best drivers of modern times has just hit an all time high in performance levels and any driver paired with him would struggle to answer back.
So, let the arguments commence but I implore you to stick to facts that are current and relevant!
This is a very calm, measured, logical and sane assessment. I wish other social media critics were the same!
He is very fast over one lap but Lewis is untouchable at the moment and on his current form would beat any team mate, Vettel, Alonso and Schumacher included.
How can you know? Many seem so sure Alonso would have beaten Hamilton in this years Ferrari so why not in this years Mercedes too? Vettel was super close almost all race in Bahrein in a still slower car. Hamilton only took .4 out of Vettel his time in qualy whilst the car is on one lap still much more faster and more easy to drive. They all have their own ways and unless they actually sat next to each other in the same car you just can never know. Yes Hamilton did good in 2007 but that is 8 years ago and hardly has any ground in this discussion when the cars don’t even resemble each other in the slightest.
Further more, Rosberg isn’t that super fast over one lap. Together with some bad luck for Lewis in 2014 and him struggling with the rears saw Rosberg take some poles he would not had had if Hamilton was on top of his game. I wouldn’t say Rosberg is such a great qualifier as Malaysia and Bahrein this year already have proven. I think on a normal day for both Hamilton would never find himself in second.
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