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[Jameseh]

I'm a fan of Nakajima and I hope to see him in the FW32 next season, hopefully alongside Buemi, who moves to Williams when STR gets bought out and Nico moves to McLaren in my fictional world of F1 driver movement.

[zurich_allan]

Thought it might be time to re-visit this thread after a couple of months. Any fresh opinions or changes of opinion? Now 34.5 points to 0 in Rosberg's favour (and it would have been substantially more but for Rosberg's silly mistake in Singapore!).

I've firmly now made my mind up that Nakajima just isn't good enough. Luck does come into the equation at times, but cannot forgive an entire season of not scoring (presuming that the trend continues and I'll hazard a guess that it will!) with the margin that now exists. It's not like Rosberg has been sneaking into 7th and 8th all season long with Kazuki just outside the points. Rosberg has been comfortably in the top 6 for the majority of races this season at least at some stage, and often Nakajima doesn't even at any stage of a race enter a points scoring position.

I can hear myself sounding harsh here, but I genuinely feel like Nakajima is costing a team that I have loved for years points (and therefore also money and pit ranking for 2010) that another driver might make a better attempt at.

Sorry Kazuki You're a nice guy, but I've heard before that nice guys don't often make winners in F1...

[7UpJordan]

Well, to describe Nakajima you would need two five letter words comprising of four vowels and six consenants. You won't need Carol Vorderman to work this one out either.

[vaptin]

Is one of them badoer?

[cap-dude]

I defended Nakajima a while ago, but now I take it back.

He just isn't quick enough. Nothing to do with crashing, we've seen very few crashes from him actually. Surprising considering how wild he was in GP2. He is the only driver to have driven all year long, and not scored a point.

At least year, when the williams car clearly wasn't good, he managed to pick up some points. But the Williams is better this year, and he's done worse. Nakajima is as good as gone.

[Gaz]

I defended Nakajima a while ago, but now I take it back.

He just isn't quick enough. Nothing to do with crashing, we've seen very few crashes from him actually. Surprising considering how wild he was in GP2. He is the only driver to have driven all year long, and not scored a point.

At least year, when the williams car clearly wasn't good, he managed to pick up some points. But the Williams is better this year, and he's done worse. Nakajima is as good as gone.

Tell you what tho is good at thinking up excuses that involve the car

[7UpJordan]

I defended Nakajima a while ago, but now I take it back.

He just isn't quick enough. Nothing to do with crashing, we've seen very few crashes from him actually. Surprising considering how wild he was in GP2. He is the only driver to have driven all year long, and not scored a point.

At least year, when the williams car clearly wasn't good, he managed to pick up some points. But the Williams is better this year, and he's done worse. Nakajima is as good as gone.

Tell you what tho is good at thinking up excuses that involve the car

Especially when the car is good enough for poles and maybe even race wins and he can't even get it in the top 10.

Tell you one thing though, Benetton had a similar situation 20 years ago when Herbert got ditched by Flabio, Emmanuel Pirro took his place and was constantly qualifying just about dead last whilst Nannini was always towards the front. But then again that's more like a Badoer performance.