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[Gaz]

Anyone seen this?

http://www.castroldriverrankings.com/rankings/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indy Car Drivers..ahead of F1 drivers...hmm so are they saying if LH, MW or Alonso went to Indy car then Dario Franchetti, Scott Dixson and Jimmy Johnson would beat them.

[bud]

Australia up there in the Nations... i like that

[Gaz]

Australia up there in the Nations... i like that

Ah yeah..UK is on top must be correct then

[AKR]

Whats that driver nation rank based on? Sounds like a lot of rubbish. Italy 9th, Croatia 55th and Slovenia 66th. I am even amazed it showed Croatia and Slovenia along with a few other small countries. And Australia 2nd? Yeah right. In general Australians drive badly. A lot of them, (Not all, probally the Aussies of Italian and the like backgrounds are generally ok at this) but you get a lot that sit on a motorway/expressway/freeway on the right lane and going slow or doing the speed limit and not passing anyone. (Australians drive on the left so the left is the slow or normal lane and the right is the fast lane, in mainland Europe it is the reverse but same concept should apply). Anyway this is very bad. I have driven on their roads. Many times I would be doing even a slow 120 km/h and some idiot would be in the right lane doing 100 km/h and not actually passing anyone. And I then would flash my high beam at them and instead of moving over like they do in Europe, they sit there and do so on purpose even sometimes pressing their brakes. What idiots and bad drivers................................ In a nice little small European country called Slovenia for example, people do not drive like this at all but in fact stay out of the fast lane if not going fast or overtaking. So already Slovenians are better drivers than Australians. And if you want to put Italians in the equation, there really isn't any comparisons as Italians are the best in the world along with the Germans.

[bud]

oh shut up AKR

[AKR]

oh shut up AKR

I love playing with your mind. Although what I say has some truth I was actually joking around with you.

[bud]

oh shut up AKR

I love playing with your mind. Although what I say has some truth I was actually joking around with you.

Theres bad drivers of every race and nationality within Australia, even ITalians to suggest they are all good drivers just because of their DNA is just utter BS! aside this castrol ranking is based on RACING series not civilian drivers.

[AKR]

oh shut up AKR

I love playing with your mind. Although what I say has some truth I was actually joking around with you.

Theres bad drivers of every race and nationality within Australia, even ITalians to suggest they are all good drivers just because of their DNA is just utter BS! aside this castrol ranking is based on RACING series not civilian drivers.

I was stirring you and you took the bait as usual. Now going to racing. Castrol is British and to no surprise the Brits are ranked first. No problems, if I were Castrol I would do exactly that. Now if AGIP were to make a similar ranking I bet Italy would be first as well. These type of rankings are all rubbish. And the truth is as well you only really need one champion driver. The current best driver in the world is the Spaniard Fernando Alonso. A few years back and for a while it was the German Michael Schumacher. Thus in the last 10m years neither number one was either Italian, Australian or even British.

[bud]

its a point based ranking. its not nationality biased.

[AKR]

its a point based ranking. its not nationality biased.

Point based on what? What did Aussies win. The V8 Supercars? Big deal. It is just V8 Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores doing laps and most of the field are Australian anyway.

[bud]

its a point based ranking. its not nationality biased.

Point based on what? What did Aussies win. The V8 Supercars? Big deal. It is just V8 Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores doing laps and most of the field are Australian anyway.

would you research it yourself i dont even see a V8SC driver in that list so youre wrong yet again!

[headless]

Anyone seen this?

http://www.castroldriverrankings.com/rankings/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indy Car Drivers..ahead of F1 drivers...hmm so are they saying if LH, MW or Alonso went to Indy car then Dario Franchetti, Scott Dixson and Jimmy Johnson would beat them.

Yes
It would take a while for F1 drivers to get to grips.
If Indy car drivers came to F1 they'd get whipped.

[vaptin]

trulli ahead of alonso

[cap-dude]

List is useless

You can't compare the levels of competitiveness in different categories, never mind comparing how good the car underneath the driver actually is.

I mean how do they claim that Vettel and Button did better that Loeb.

[Denthúl]

Anyone seen this?

http://www.castroldriverrankings.com/rankings/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indy Car Drivers..ahead of F1 drivers...hmm so are they saying if LH, MW or Alonso went to Indy car then Dario Franchetti, Scott Dixson and Jimmy Johnson would beat them.

No, that's not what they are saying.

The rankings are based on scores calculated by some obscure method. It's not really a measure of talent but more like who scored the most points, had the best finishes, pole positions, etc. and it's also based on their qualifying positions, whether or not they led races and for how long, the number of positions that they made up during the race. Obviously, there are a lot more laps in IRL/NASCAR and it's possible to make up a lot more places during a race, so of course they would feature quite highly in the list.