Bingo! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jens
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Bingo! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jens
^ :laugh:
I wouldnt be too sure of that.
Actually, Ralf was not disliked when he drove for Jordan, and indeed he seems popular with the engineers who have worked with him. I have read several comments over the years that he is shy-which comes across as arrogance, same could be said for Kimi...but isn't! -and that actually he is a very good guy to work with professionally and personally.
But driving for Williams, with the name Schumacher, after 1997 (when there were a few certain disagreements between Williams and the Schumacher family) didn't help his cause. Okay he could have been all 'PR offensive' but why!? He's there to race, and I don't think he cares for all the press/publicity side of F1.
As the point of the thread, all I was saying was that perhaps Ralf isn't the 3rd best driver in F1 (he himself did not claim this!), but there's really not much competition driver-wise except for the two Ferrari drivers and Alonso with regard to those who look like champion material.
I think Ralf's time (championship-wise) has long passed, but I don't think there's many drivers who he would get beaten by in equal equipment over the course of a race. Kind of like Gerhard Berger in many respects.
ralf is good i remember a certain spa race ina jordan ;)
and him being told not to pass his teammate. when he was in 2nd place
I dont think Ralf had too good a relationship with Williams after the first couple of years because of Montoya coming in, and he really was Franks golden boy at the time, and it must of affected him because in the last couple of years there he was rather an up and down driver, had some really good races that showed why he is in F1 and some really half hearted races. At Toyota I think he's in a bad situation were the car always has some aspect of its performance that isnt too good and it makes it hard for him to make an impression on a race, so its hard to tell how well he's doing. Plus, Trulli is a qualy specialist an always puts the car well ahead of were it belongs, so it appears that he's out racing Ralf at times.
Ralf Schumacher is too inconsistent. His statement that they are only two drivers ahead of him is ludicrous
Whichever way you look at it,i feel IMO Button,Massa,Heidfeld,Webber are all better than Ralf Schumacher along with KR and FA....
(not counting the rookies like Kubica,Hamilton,Heikki
remember one year ago when Ralfy went off the track 4x times in Austrailia (in the same spot.....)
yup, top shelf talent
not
Credit where credit's due, Australia was one of his better drives last year (3rd place... not too shabby).Quote:
Originally Posted by tsarcasm
Whatever is said about him he really isn't ever going to be good enough to be worth all that money
Everyone is worth what it gets paid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian McC
He might not be worth it for you but for sure he is worth it for Toyota.