Mercedes drivers told to obey team orders in future

[BDunnell]

So - for greater success in F1 you need to be a perfectionist. Being a perfectionist is not being lucky like some portray it. It is an additional depth in character that some may struggle to grasp, hence call it "pure luck".

Well, there's often a certain amount of luck involved. One thinks of Piquet's win in the 1981 championship — he was, one might say, lucky that Reutemann had such an abject final race (his car, Patrick Head has said, was absolutely fine). But you're right — it can't all be put down to luck. There is also a lot of rubbish often written about drivers who were successful through 'hard work' rather than 'natural talent', Graham Hill being a classic example. He had much more natural talent than he's often given credit for.