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Originally Posted by SlowOne
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....  ) |
Haha good point, i'd also like to see the Virgin & HRT cars banned from a safety point of view too
I wouldn't say i'm looking back 5 years, more like 15-20 even, since the high downforce wings, and all the safety features came in - Mainly from 1994 i suppose but the cars since then have just become so good, it's rare to even see one get out of shape like the old days..... Even since they took away T/C the cars are still generating enough grip to pretty much nail the right pedal out of corners.
I think wet conditions are probably the only time we can really see a driver make up for a poor car, the likes of Suttil, Hamilton & Vettel have all been good at that over the past 3-4 years, and Schumacher was always pretty incredible to watch in the rain, especially when he lapped everyone up to 3rd in Spain
