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Originally Posted by telboy
I could've brought the Spa incident up, but didn't because that was simply crap weather and shumi not being able to see DCs slower car. He did go off on one and blame DC for it, but to be honest neither was at fault. It happened to Senna in Australia when he plowed into brundle in the same way....but Senna didn't go storming off down the pit lane to punch Brundle.
To be honest last year it was all down to the fact that Button had THE best car for half the year. As soon as the other team caught up Button was no where, and I really lost the will to support him towards the end of the year and started supporting Barrichello more as he was doing a better job with what he had.
So that proves how much the car and team is the winning combination.
Don't get me wrong, when they build next years merc around schumi he will probably rise to the forefront again, which again will show that it is the car and team that make the difference to wether a driver can win or not.
BUT, a brilliant driver can make a bad/average car a winning car, as Senna used to. Schumacher struggled to do that. Which is why he moved Ross brawn and all the other members of the Benetton technical team over to Ferrari when he moved there.
He is obviously a good driver otherwise he wouldn't be where he is. But THE best, I don't think so, no matter what the statistics say.
Just my opinion.  |
Nicely put Tel, i don't think these days anyone can make a bad car capable of winning though, i can't even remember the last time anyone really outperformed their car, people say Kubica has done it at Renault but i think Hungary proved with Petrov getting 6th that the car has always been good enough this year...
Schumacher definitely did it at Ferrari for those first few seasons, winning races that the Williams car was far more capable of doing so - I know they eventually became almost unbeatable but he still has some amazing drives and results with a couple of really bad cars....
I don't actually think he's the outright best ever, there's too many drivers to consider for that title and we'll never really know as hardly any of them got to compete against eachother - I just don't agree that he's "average" or only 10% of the package that won so many world titles, that is really just an insult to most F1 fans if you ask me - Why bother watching a sport if you honestly believe the driver is only 10% of it?
Why not take them out altogether and have the cars guided by Sat Nav?
I agree only a very good car can win these days, the Red Bull is far superior to the Mclaren at the moment but Lewis is just about hanging on to them through some great driving and generally being consitent - i still think he's got a good chance of winning this championship, and that would be a great achievement with this car but the car certainly isn't as slow as the Renault, Mercedes, Sauber, Torro Rosso, HRT, Virgin etc.... Nobody no matter how good they are would win in any of these on a regular basis (i.e unless there's freak weather, a big crash or something)!