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30th May 2013, 12:22 #11
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I have always thought of Nico as one of the top tier drivers at least, ever since his fastest lap at his debut in a Williams, was it at Bahrain? What was lacking was probably his race pace, which has improved quite a lot now. His pole and flag-to-flag victory at China last year should have been indication enough that he's top class. I knew Lewis would have a tougher teammate than he's had at Mclaren.
But I think what's massively getting overlooked is that it's only been 6 races, and this is still a new team, a new car, new team members, new bosses, new environment, new everything for Lewis. Like Brawn said, it takes time to settle down. For example little things like how there are different and extra settings for brake diff or how the car behaves at its rear. There's a video of Lewis describing it during winter testing. Nico has been in the team since 2010, so is already well versed with these things and now it's second nature to him.
Considering all this, Lewis did a mammoth job outqualifying Nico in the first 3 races! Nico simply upped his game after the Chinese GP, and now Lewis has to do the same. Lewis is doing a MUCH better job than MS if we take qualifying positions and points table into account. I'd say Merc GP has the strongest driver pairing in Formula 1 and 2014 should be an interesting season.
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30th May 2013, 14:04 #12Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden2nd place in the big quizz challenge!
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30th May 2013, 14:26 #13
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30th May 2013, 15:10 #14
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30th May 2013, 15:36 #15
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30th May 2013, 22:31 #16
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This is "History"?
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30th May 2013, 23:05 #17
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It's a grey area isn't it? Schumacher has retired, so it can't be "current" F1. But Rosberg and Hamilton are still active so it can't be called "History". As Schumacher is, or should be, the focus of this threaid I suppose the needle just swings towards "History".
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31st May 2013, 18:21 #18
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Originally Posted by henners88
I'm not sure why people bring up the testing thing and somehow attributing his success to that. All teams were allowed to test in-season and simply having a large budget doesn't equal success otherwise Ferrari would have won the last three seasons with Alonso and Toyota would have been dominant in the mid-2000's.
It's becoming clear now that Alonso and Hamilton aren't the new Senna and Prost as predicted six years ago but the new Villeneuve and Hill. Maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but there's a lot of truth to it.
Hamilton was widely touted as the best driver on the grid before the season began, and now he's saying he can't figure out the brakes six races into the season??? Schumacher, Prost, Senna all figured out how to drive around problems when they found the setup sub-optimal. It was the tyres he blamed for being put away by Button in 2011, now the brakes in 2013. What's Mercedes paying all this money for?
Remember, he got beat by Button 2/3 years and now Perez looks to be slowly but surely getting the better of Button. I don't think this era is as strong as people have claimed in recent years.
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31st May 2013, 18:29 #19
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31st May 2013, 19:00 #20
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Maybe Schumacher's return wasn't all that rubbish?
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