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20th July 2011, 19:22 #1
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Top 10 greatest drivers of all time.
I would like to ask a simple question. Who would you choose as your top 10 greatest drivers of all time? F1, American Open Wheel, NASCAR, or whatever it's up to you.
My list:
1. Ayrton Senna
2. A.J. Foyt
3. Mario Andretti
4. Richard Petty
5. Michael Schumacher
6. Dale Earnhardt Sr.
7. Rick Mears (Maybe a bit high to some but he is a hero of mine)
8. Jim Clark
9. Alain Prost
10. Nigel Mansell
Tough leaving off greats like Jeff Gordon, Michael Andretti, Jackie Stewart, etc. but it is what it is. I'm sure many disagree with my list, but I love Indycar more than F1, although I do believe Senna was a very special driver.
Well, I look forward to seeing what you guys think.Kyle Busch #18 M&M's Toyota Camry
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20th July 2011, 20:13 #2
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To make this more interesting, can I suggest that people should write a couple of sentences about each driver they list
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20th July 2011, 20:34 #3
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Originally Posted by D-Type
Senna - Great talent and car control, hard to find anyone who doesn't agree he is special.
Foyt - No matter what he drove (midgets, Indycar, NASCAR) he won in.
Andretti - An incredible career in both Indycar and in F1, the father of the Andretti dynasty.
Petty - 200 wins and 7 titles in a dominating career.
Schumacher - The most career F1 wins, 7 career World Championships.
Earnhardt Sr. - Raced as hard headed as anyone, yet still regarded highly by his peers for 7 championship titles.
Mears - Winner of 4 Indy 500's and holds the most poles at Indy (6).
Clark - Winner of the 500 in '65, 2 time F1 world champion, and 25 career wins. All this done in eight years.
Prost - 4 titles, 2nd all time in wins.
Mansell - Excelled in F1 winning 31 times and won the Cart championship and nearly the 500 in 1993.Kyle Busch #18 M&M's Toyota Camry
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21st July 2011, 05:14 #4
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I can't count. I have 11 in a Top Ten.
Sébastien Loeb - 7 WRC Championships
Jacky Ickx - 6 Le Mans 24 Hours, 1 Spa 24 Hours, 8 F1 victories, 1 Bathurst 1000
Eric van de Poele - 3 Le Mans 24 Hours, 5 Spa 24 Hours
Mario Andretti - 1 F1 Championship, the Daytona 500, USAC national dirt track champion, 24 Hours of daytona, an Indy Car Championship and 1 Indianapolis 500.
Graham Hill - 2 F1 Championships, 1 Spa 24 Hours, 1 Indianapolis 500
Tom Kristensen - 6 Le Mans 24 Hours, 5 12 Hours of Sebring
Michael Schumacher - 7 F1 Championships
Alain Prost - 4 F1 Championships (should have been 7)
Peter Brock - 9 Bathurst wins, 1 Bathurst 24 Hours, 3 ATCC, 1 Round Australia Rally
Richard Petty - 7 NASCAR Championships, 7 Daytona 500s... 200 race wins!
Steve Kinser - 20 US Sprint Car Championships
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21st July 2011, 16:33 #5
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21st July 2011, 20:07 #6
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Greatest of all time, such a list is subjective to the point of being meaningless.
It is odd, yeah right, that there are no pre-WW II or really pre-sixties drivers in these lists.
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21st July 2011, 20:25 #7
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Originally Posted by Bob RiebeDuncan Rollo
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21st July 2011, 20:37 #8
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Originally Posted by Bob RiebeKyle Busch #18 M&M's Toyota Camry
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22nd July 2011, 18:20 #9
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The only thing I'm always assured of reading these lisst is Senna being grossly overrated, and prost grossly underrated.
Anyway, Schumacher was better than senna when schumacher was just his first year or two into F1. which is when senna was supposed to be in his prime F1 years. If wet behind the ears schumacher is beating you prime years with an equal or worse carl there is no way you can be better than Schumacher.
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22nd July 2011, 20:21 #10
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Sebastien Loeb - Without peer in his generation.
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