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[FRAFPDD]

First post!

I gotta say, i dont see how anyone can find Vettel or Webber the unluckiest current driver in F1 considering the advatange they have with their car....

Three drivers take my vote,

Lewis Hamilton- Not only has he lost around 25 odd points through mechanical failures, he succumbs to these failures after outperforming the car's potential by a mile, not to mention he was punted off in Australia by Webber and lost out to a second place through dodgy team tyre calls (china, i think?)


Fernando Alonso- cant stand him as apersonality, respect him greatly as a driver, hes had to put up with engine failure and the safety car saga in Valencia and the Silverstone debacle, although he has jumped a start this year and inherited two wins....

De La Rosa- You dont need an explanation

[myownalias]

Many say Mark Webber, not because of this year because that would be silly given that he is leading the world drivers championship; but all the past years he has been in F1, I believe in the last 10 years he has suffered more mechanical failures than any other driver in F1 and never even had a sniff of a win before Red Bull!

[Hammer278]

Didn't want to start a new thread about this, but it's an interesting read:

REVEALED: F1's most – and least – reliable teams of 2010
Sat, 14 Aug 11:00:31 2010

Buzz Up!
Research has revealed which have been the most – and least – reliable teams in the F1 2010 World Championship, and the results may surprise.

Having failed to complete a mere three of the 1,474 laps thus far – falling short when Fernando Alonso’s engine let go almost within sight of the chequered flag in the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang back in April – Ferrari receives the award for the most reliable of the twelve competitors, though the fact that Felipe Massa is the only driver in the field to have finished every race and yet still sits a distant sixth in the title standings is something of an indictment of the Brazilian’s disappointing campaign to-date.

Perhaps unexpectedly given its well-documented early-season reliability woes that at one stage looked like derailing its challenge right from the start, next up are championship leaders Red Bull Racing, concluded the analysis by German publication Auto Motor und Sport. The 101 laps that Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel have neglected to cover can be attributed to two accidents – and both high-profile and spectacular ones at that, in Istanbul and Valencia – and a wheel-nut failure for the German in Melbourne.

“Inevitably when you push the boundaries there are a few issues, and unfortunately we’ve had a couple of issues,” RBR team principal Christian Horner had remarked last month. “We had a spark plug failure in the first grand prix that unfortunately prevented Sebastian from winning that race. We had a wheel-nut issue, but also both Mercedes and McLaren have had failures at different grands prix. We had a brake issue in Barcelona but Sebastian still managed to finish in third, so in terms of absolute show-stoppers we’ve only had one mechanical DNF. We’ve had no more, or less, than our competitors.”

For all that Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button appear to have stayed in the reckoning through sheer consistency despite not having the fastest car out there, the McLaren-Mercedes MP4-25 has been far from bulletproof either. A last lap wheel rim failure cost Hamilton second place in Barcelona, transmission woes hobbled the 2008 world champion in Hungary last time out and Button similarly suffered in Monaco when his engine blew as early as the second lap – making the Woking-based outfit only the fourth-most reliable of 2010, behind Mercedes Grand Prix, the sole team aside from Ferrari to have had no driver error-induced DNFs.

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I didn't expect McLaren to be 4th, but both drivers have done a fantastic job to stay in the hunt thus far. So has Alonso, with a struggling Ferrari at some races this year. These guys make Redbull look a bit like spoilt brats...given all the candy but somehow spilling half of them into the sandpit.....

[Big Azza]

New driver - Karun Chandhok.

http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=383255&FS=F1