Quote Originally Posted by rjbetty
Whether Kobayashi is the driver to do that remains to be seen. This is a guy, who the simple fact is, did scrape a single 3rd place in what was a race winning car in 2012. I still don't quite understand the hype around this guy (he's good, but maybe about 15 drivers or so are better I'd say) and why so many people seem to think he should be fast-tracked into a Ferrari AHEAD OF NICO HULKENBERG?! Really?
I've read your posts on Kobayashi filled with vitriol and its clear to me why you don't rate him, you manage to dismiss the way in which he outqualified Perez pretty comprehensively, are unable to understand how Perez being on a desperate alternate tyre strategy due to failure to qualify well reaped rewards nor see how Kobayashi was plain unlucky to miss out on many good points finishes often due to Grosjean. I'm sure you're aware as you appear to follow Sauber closely that Kobayashi often had his tyre strategy requests turned down by the team in favour of Perez, after all the Swiss had his sponsors to please and the team wanted to split strategies to reduce risk.

Time to take a step back and tone down your dislike isn't it?

Nor do I see the 'hype' you mention. He's a very good midfield driver able to execute strategies very well and IMO deserves a seat in F1. Whether Caterham is the appropriate springboard is another matter, he will be expected to beat Eriksson so that achievement will be taken for granted, yet will find it difficult to score points like every Caterham driver before him. Impressing better teams is very unlikely.