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Formula One Rookie of the Year:

Nelson Piquet
No votes
0%
Kazuki Nakajima
1
4%
Timo Glock
6
25%
Sebastien Bourdais
4
17%
Sebastian Vettel
13
54%
#84362
Discounting Vettel, seeing as he did half of the previous season, I'd say it's between Bourdais and Glock. I can't vote, though, because I think they both did an equally impressive job.
#84365
Over the course of the year, Glock did a decent job. Most people didn't rate him, but he proved them he is a solid driver.
#84426
Denthúl wrote:Discounting Vettel, seeing as he did half of the previous season, I'd say it's between Bourdais and Glock. I can't vote, though, because I think they both did an equally impressive job.
Glock is even less a rookie than SV - check his bio!
#84430
bud wrote:I voted Bourdais as he was the only true F1 rookie deserving of the vote.

Glock and Vettel already had racing experience in F1 previously
At the same time, how long has SB been racing champ cars? From a racing experience POV at an upper echelon racing series, SB is a veteran.
#84432
bud wrote:Way and look how hard it was to adjust to F1 for him! F1 is a totally different ball game
Yeah, well, maybe he's not F1 material after all. Look how JV adjusted just fine and he wasn't even an exceptional driver...
#84434
darwin_dali wrote:
bud wrote:Way and look how hard it was to adjust to F1 for him! F1 is a totally different ball game
Yeah, well, maybe he's not F1 material after all. Look how JV adjusted just fine and he wasn't even an exceptional driver...
Yeah but he had the best car in the field by miles.
#84435
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
bud wrote:Way and look how hard it was to adjust to F1 for him! F1 is a totally different ball game
Yeah, well, maybe he's not F1 material after all. Look how JV adjusted just fine and he wasn't even an exceptional driver...
Yeah but he had the best car in the field by miles.
And SB had the exact same car as SV...
#84437
darwin_dali wrote:
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
bud wrote:Way and look how hard it was to adjust to F1 for him! F1 is a totally different ball game
Yeah, well, maybe he's not F1 material after all. Look how JV adjusted just fine and he wasn't even an exceptional driver...
Yeah but he had the best car in the field by miles.
And SB had the exact same car as SV...
And your point is?
#84438
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
bud wrote:Way and look how hard it was to adjust to F1 for him! F1 is a totally different ball game
Yeah, well, maybe he's not F1 material after all. Look how JV adjusted just fine and he wasn't even an exceptional driver...
Yeah but he had the best car in the field by miles.
And SB had the exact same car as SV...
And your point is?
My point is YOU brought the difference in cars into the discussion - and I say there was no difference in cars for SB and SV and yet, SV drove circles around SB.
#84439
darwin_dali wrote:
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
bud wrote:Way and look how hard it was to adjust to F1 for him! F1 is a totally different ball game
Yeah, well, maybe he's not F1 material after all. Look how JV adjusted just fine and he wasn't even an exceptional driver...
Yeah but he had the best car in the field by miles.
And SB had the exact same car as SV...
And your point is?
My point is YOU brought the difference in cars into the discussion - and I say there was no difference in cars for SB and SV and yet, SV drove circles around SB.
Yeah but I was referring to what you said about JV. He adjusted fine because his car was the best in the field by miles. Thats what I was trying to say.
#84440
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
Rivelution wrote:
darwin_dali wrote:
bud wrote:Way and look how hard it was to adjust to F1 for him! F1 is a totally different ball game
Yeah, well, maybe he's not F1 material after all. Look how JV adjusted just fine and he wasn't even an exceptional driver...
Yeah but he had the best car in the field by miles.
And SB had the exact same car as SV...
And your point is?
My point is YOU brought the difference in cars into the discussion - and I say there was no difference in cars for SB and SV and yet, SV drove circles around SB.
Yeah but I was referring to what you said about JV. He adjusted fine because his car was the best in the field by miles. Thats what I was trying to say.
I know that's what you were saying, I took it already one or two steps further: In your logic then, if a car is not way better than the rest, a rookie should have much more trouble to adjust to F1. This seems to be true for SB as he did have trouble and his car was subpar to the front of the grid teams. Only problem is that SV drove the exact same car and did way better than him and adjusted just fine to F1.
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