Comments on: Adrian Sutil: the driver debates

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:43:00 +0000

Please Hoshiyar, stop talking along these lines. I am an Indian, and love F1 for all right reasons but I don’t tend to think this way. We Indians are known to always get charged up when something involving the country reaches our ears, I’ve seen countless powerpoint presentations listing how well the Indians have scored in international scene, how many Indians have been CEO’s of companies etc, but I think those are just being melodramatic or emotional charge instead of an inspirational one. Let me leave them there.
Giving chances for Indian drivers should be a highly possible one for a team co-owned by an Indian, but that should never make it easy for a not so good driver (Narain) because one is an Indian, instead of aspiring good drivers and experienced good ones (Adrian and Fisi). For a season or two, VJ has to play safe and improve the team, get some points along the line. Talking patriotism or politics is not going to be good in F1, atleast not now with a countless allegations and scandles lowering it’s image.

By: hoshiyar

hoshiyar — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:31:20 +0000

to have force india without a indian pilot is ridiculous…sutil is not even close to karthikeyan in terms of speed. narain can take the bull by its horn and come in front of fisi each and every time… to not even have tried him for the race seat… its clear where mallya’s priority lie ….making money… he’s just playing with the sentiments of ppl here….

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:01:13 +0000

I don’t think I’ll be in all that much better position to assess Adrian Sutil at the end of this year than I was at the end of 2007, since I think that Fisichella is seriously underrated at this time. At that point, I could see clear speed and definite room for improvement – but no clear idea as to where he was, let alone where he would go in future. About the only new thing I’ve discovered is that the Force India’s hydraulics system doesn’t seem to like him for some reason.

By: AmericanTifosi

AmericanTifosi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:26:49 +0000

Sutil may have a rubbish car but for a back marker driver I rate him pretty high. Unlike his former teammates and a few others I could name, he doen’t seem to cause stupid shunts. He is consistant as is possible for that car.

By: DanielPT

DanielPT — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:52:03 +0000

Well, the fact is that Sutil is being trouced by Fisichella, who is an average guy ( he can win, but not that often as he proved at Renault ) like the likes of Barrichello or Coulthard or Trulli. And to be considered more highly he should already be on par, at least, with Fisi. Or either Sutil is walking throught a bad year, which he cannot afford or Liuzzi will take his place, or Sutil is revealing his quality next to the first reasonable teamate.
Following the battles since the last Jordan year to now we will see that, perhaps, Fisi is the best driver they ever had since, well, Fisi! And that reveals the lack of quality drivers in that team!

By: Type-R-Avatar

Type-R-Avatar — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:37:25 +0000

First of he is an musician and that puts him high in my book

Secondly I believe that he has shown resilience against a very competitive grid and I would like to see him in a strong, nicely set-up, reliable car. He was unfortunate last week…

By: Freeman

Freeman — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:47:47 +0000

Yes Sutil, like any other F1 drivers, must have achieved success on their way up. Otherwise they won’t get to F1. To me, he’s occassionally quick, but my biggest impression of him is that he shunts or crash into others way too often.

If he keeps on doing that and only finishing races in unimpressive positions in uncompetitive cars, unless he brings in top sponsors, I guess his F1 days are numbered. Perception is everything in F1 right?

By: Manatcna

Manatcna — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:14:07 +0000

Everyone is allowed an opinion, and that is yours. I still think Sutil is, at the best, an average driver.
But time will tell.
btw – the "Or am I wrong?" referred to the Sutil point.

I mean no offence toward you personally, but if I have caused any, I apologise

By: Bbbut

Bbbut — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:02:06 +0000

"Or am I wrong?"

I am sorry to say, but this this case yes, you are wrong!
Judging drivers and especially those at the back of the grid only by their points is plainly stupid.

Points are the modus that decides the winner of the championship. If this system would be to rate all drivers then it would reward every driver not just the first 8.

In maybe 1 of 16 races a team like Force India has the realistic chance to score a point. And for that reason you want to throw away the other 15 results and than just look at this single race to rate the drivers?

Again, this is just ridiculously stupid.

By: Manatcna

Manatcna — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:40:21 +0000

Bbut
I’m going on the only thing that matters – points won.
Vettel 5 last year – against 3 for Liuzzi
If Liuzzi was faster, why did he score fewer points?
And, if I remember correctly the one point Sutil scored was more or less gifted to him.
Or am I wrong?