Times Online engages in comedy, their best 50 drivers of all time list

[Garry Walker]

I know lists like that are very subjective and should not be taken seriously, but this is one is too much already.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...et=132&page=12

Button - 16th (!!!!!)
But guys like
Jack Brabham - 20th
Jochen Rindt -18th
Lewis Hamilton - 21st
Keke Rosberg - 24th

Not to mention that they have invented a new driver name - Bruce McClaren.

One could hardly make a worse list.

Comments?

[CNR]

this is a load of BS

28. Bruce McClaren

30.8.1937 to 2.6.1970

New Zealand

Grands prix: 101

Wins: 4

World Championships: none


McLaren was a precocious talent and a former youngest championship points scorer before he was usurped, appropriately, by Lewis Hamilton for McLaren. Killed testing a McLaren CanAm car at Goodwood. The name lives on although McLaren had no connection to the team that now bears his name under the stewardship of Ron Dennis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren

The current team was formed by the merger of Bruce McLaren Motor Racing with Ron Dennis's Project Four Racing in 1981. Shortly after the merger, Dennis organised a buyout of the original McLaren shareholders to take full control of the team. McLaren is part of McLaren Racing,

[Easy Drifter]

As you say subjective, but certainly some extremely strange picks and placings.

[CNR]

23. Alan Jones

2.11.1946

Australia

Grands prix: 116

Wins: 12

World Championships: 1 (1980)


Powerful and brave, looked more like a rugby player than a Formula One driver. Splendid relationship with Sir Frank Williams brought a first world title for the British team. But they were the glory days and there was only one more good season and a third place in the championship before his career petered out at Arrows and the ill-fated Lola-Haas outfit.

had signed to drive a ferrari before 1980 but lost the drive because they wanted an american driver

[gloomyDAY]

Not to mention that they have invented a new driver name - Bruce McClaren.

[ShiftingGears]

I know lists like that are very subjective and should not be taken seriously, but this is one is too much already.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...et=132&page=12

Button - 16th (!!!!!)
But guys like
Jack Brabham - 20th
Jochen Rindt -18th
Lewis Hamilton - 21st
Keke Rosberg - 24th

Not to mention that they have invented a new driver name - Bruce McClaren.

One could hardly make a worse list.

Comments?

Pretty hilarious. The writer was obviously having a romance explosion at the thought of Button.

[keysersoze]

Jenson wouldn't be in my top 100 before this year. Winning six races in a half-season and the WDC gets him into the 70s--maybe.

[ShiftingGears]

I just noticed that they didn't even get the country of the grand prix that GV was qualifying for right.

[raikk]

I know lists like that are very subjective and should not be taken seriously, but this is one is too much already.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...et=132&page=12

Button - 16th (!!!!!)
But guys like
Jack Brabham - 20th
Jochen Rindt -18th
Lewis Hamilton - 21st
Keke Rosberg - 24th

Not to mention that they have invented a new driver name - Bruce McClaren.

One could hardly make a worse list.

Comments?

surely they could of gotten an expert to do this and not the editors 12 year old kid that lives in the basement?

[F1boat]

Unfortunately media pushes modern drivers in front of old ones. You are living now and everything today is the best. So it is normal to push the current champion so far ahead. Although I like Jenson very much, in my opinion neither he, nor Lewis should be that close to Jack Brabham, if I am correct, a three times world champion?
The P1 IMO is also very subjective. Clark might have been most talented, I can't know, but when I check the stats I see two WDC against 5 for Fangio and 7 for MS.