- 02 Jan 11, 19:04#232535
The Frome Flyer: Smoother, Smarter, Calmer, Winner.
Jenson Button: Professor, Chauffeur, World Champion Racing Driver.
By my criteria, Button genuinely is the best driver on the grid. Those criteria just happen to be differently weighted than most people's - for instance, I find that there are so many very rapid drivers in F1, I value flatout and 1-lap pace very little. Especially since these are probably the attributes that are most able to be improved simply by having a better suited car.
If Schumacher doesn't win a race in 2011, he should retire before he does any more damage to his heritage. He should realise his heritage and prestige belong to us who watched him all those years almost as much as they belong to him.
Kobayashi is wildly overrated.
Adrian Sutil is also wildly overrated.
Vettel, outside of when he's racing, or talking about it, is actually pretty likeable.
There is something fundamentally different about the US Racing scene compared to the racing scenes of the rest of the world which makes a successful American driver or team in F1 in the future very unlikely.
Sebastian Bourdais was, and is, radically underrated.
Williams will never win another title in its present form.
Force India will never win one in its present form either.
The abolition of the Team Orders rule is going to cause a major controversy within three years which will require someone to be penalised for brining the sport into disrepute. If this is Ferrari or (Less likely) McLaren, expect the entirely predictable arguments to play out again, complete with the charming "completely pointless reference to the events of 2007" which always comes up no matter how irrelevant those events are to the topic at hand or hypocritical the sentiment.
If F1 is to have a sole tyre supplier, the deal should have gone to Avon/Cooper, not Pirelli (But Pirelli were the right choice over Michelin). That being said, the F1 Tyre supply issue really ought to be a free for all, with teams able to source tyres from any manufacturer willing to build a tyre to F1 rules.
The idea of a mandatory pit stop is farcical. Especially when the Option tyre is far from marginal.
KERS is a pointless waste of time. In order for it to be relevant, it would have to be entirely open for free development by the teams. All this limiting its use and power and so on makes it worthless even for its intended "push-to-pass" function (Itself mostly a joke) as if all the KERS behave in exactly the same way on output, they cancel each other out both on average and on aggregate. And don't bother with that "oh it's tactical" thing, because it patently is not. And if we want tactics in F1...MAKE THE OPTION TYRE MARGINAL, REMOVE THE MANDATORY PIT STOP AND/OR REINSTATE REFUELLING.
If Schumacher doesn't win a race in 2011, he should retire before he does any more damage to his heritage. He should realise his heritage and prestige belong to us who watched him all those years almost as much as they belong to him.
Kobayashi is wildly overrated.
Adrian Sutil is also wildly overrated.
Vettel, outside of when he's racing, or talking about it, is actually pretty likeable.
There is something fundamentally different about the US Racing scene compared to the racing scenes of the rest of the world which makes a successful American driver or team in F1 in the future very unlikely.
Sebastian Bourdais was, and is, radically underrated.
Williams will never win another title in its present form.
Force India will never win one in its present form either.
The abolition of the Team Orders rule is going to cause a major controversy within three years which will require someone to be penalised for brining the sport into disrepute. If this is Ferrari or (Less likely) McLaren, expect the entirely predictable arguments to play out again, complete with the charming "completely pointless reference to the events of 2007" which always comes up no matter how irrelevant those events are to the topic at hand or hypocritical the sentiment.
If F1 is to have a sole tyre supplier, the deal should have gone to Avon/Cooper, not Pirelli (But Pirelli were the right choice over Michelin). That being said, the F1 Tyre supply issue really ought to be a free for all, with teams able to source tyres from any manufacturer willing to build a tyre to F1 rules.
The idea of a mandatory pit stop is farcical. Especially when the Option tyre is far from marginal.
KERS is a pointless waste of time. In order for it to be relevant, it would have to be entirely open for free development by the teams. All this limiting its use and power and so on makes it worthless even for its intended "push-to-pass" function (Itself mostly a joke) as if all the KERS behave in exactly the same way on output, they cancel each other out both on average and on aggregate. And don't bother with that "oh it's tactical" thing, because it patently is not. And if we want tactics in F1...MAKE THE OPTION TYRE MARGINAL, REMOVE THE MANDATORY PIT STOP AND/OR REINSTATE REFUELLING.

The Frome Flyer: Smoother, Smarter, Calmer, Winner.
Jenson Button: Professor, Chauffeur, World Champion Racing Driver.