Get your point, but...
You're looking back over the last five years or so from your post. Those guys go back the last 60 years!! For those 60 years I've picked four or five things - or one every 10 years or so. Just because it hasn't happened for the last five or ten years, doesn't mean it is not going to happen again.
As for it all being so close - in qualifying may be. In the race we have just witnessed a couple of races where the winner lapped everyone up to the top ten which, even if you discount the bottom six, is a BIG gap. Where the points count, the gap is a big today as it ever has been over the last 60 years - and there are no points for qualifying!!
The advantage of the definition I was given of greatness is that it does not rely on comparison, it relies on absolutes. It's a good game, and it's great that we all differ, and have the wit and imagination to reason our corner.
Oh, and at the risk of getting the Schui guys back in, there is one safety risk we can improve - get Schumacher off the track!!
(Puts on tin hat and runs away....
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