- 19 Feb 09, 12:02#90966
A lot of people tend to hold this same opinion, which I can kind of understand if you look purely at his points totals. However under the points system today he actually would have had some fairly healthy hauls with the amount of 4th - 8th place finishes he had, which would actually have been more of an achievement than for a driver today as he was not driving good machinery (probably the equivalent of somewhere between a STR and a honda from last year) and was driving in a field that had on average four - eight cars more on the grid than today. Plus, look in those years at some of the people he was driving against; Senna, Prost, Piquet, Berger, Alesi, Mansell etc.
Nakajima senior did make some silly mistakes and had a few crashes, but was nowhere near as bad as some people make out. I'd go as far as to say he was actually quite good. (having watched every F1 race he competed in).
As for the topic of this thread, Bruno Senna is not too far short of a phenomenon considering he has probably eight years less racing experience than almost everybody else he has been competing against in GP2. He is still improving and learning whereas a number of those he has been racing against until recently will have virtually reached their peak. Anybody who watched his Feature race win at Monaco or Sprint race win at Silverstone will conclude that he could be a force to be reckoned with in the right car. Whether the Honda / potentially Virgin car is that machinery however is highly questionable. If the car is off the pace (assuming he gets the drive), then he can only be judged on how he fares against his team mate, and I have a feeling that regardless whom that may be, he will come out on top.
What about Kazuki Nakajima. I just remember itv always going on that he was the son of an f1 driver. But wikipedia has led me to believe that Satoru Nakajima was s***
A lot of people tend to hold this same opinion, which I can kind of understand if you look purely at his points totals. However under the points system today he actually would have had some fairly healthy hauls with the amount of 4th - 8th place finishes he had, which would actually have been more of an achievement than for a driver today as he was not driving good machinery (probably the equivalent of somewhere between a STR and a honda from last year) and was driving in a field that had on average four - eight cars more on the grid than today. Plus, look in those years at some of the people he was driving against; Senna, Prost, Piquet, Berger, Alesi, Mansell etc.
Nakajima senior did make some silly mistakes and had a few crashes, but was nowhere near as bad as some people make out. I'd go as far as to say he was actually quite good. (having watched every F1 race he competed in).
As for the topic of this thread, Bruno Senna is not too far short of a phenomenon considering he has probably eight years less racing experience than almost everybody else he has been competing against in GP2. He is still improving and learning whereas a number of those he has been racing against until recently will have virtually reached their peak. Anybody who watched his Feature race win at Monaco or Sprint race win at Silverstone will conclude that he could be a force to be reckoned with in the right car. Whether the Honda / potentially Virgin car is that machinery however is highly questionable. If the car is off the pace (assuming he gets the drive), then he can only be judged on how he fares against his team mate, and I have a feeling that regardless whom that may be, he will come out on top.
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