so my ranking

1-Hamilton.
2-Massa.
3-Alonso.
4-Kubica.
5-Raikkonen.

Yet Kimi himself is of course also part of the issue – his trouble sometimes keeping up with Massa the primary symptom he is not quite on top form.

Massa also got beaten by Heidfeld in Sauber AND Fisichella in Sauber. He only beat Villeneuve by 2 points…the only teammate he has beaten. A washed up villeneauve.
Also, he lost his ride in 2003 to be a test driver for Ferrari.

So, beaten 4 out of 5 years and he is in a Ferrari?

A driver has a greater, chance when in a competitive car, of making it to the front if he finds himself towards the back end during the early portions of a race but except for events like sudden rain or accidents and safety cars, its unlikely any driver can recover to a higher finishing position, if he finds himself at the rear end during the middle portions of a race.
Also, because of the frequent changes of the regulations, its no longer sensible to compare last year’s racing with this present season. Last year all drivers qualified with the fuel they raced with. but this year, only the top 10 driver do so, thus a driver who for some reason after qualifying in the top 10 finds himself towards the back at the starts would almost never make it too far forward.

Given RK is only 2 points behind, in a car that is clearly not within 2 points of the other 2, he gets my #1.

Lewis #2.

Kimi & Massa =#3.

easy…..

Second of all, while Kimi’s car was unreliable, it was also in a class of it’s own when it did finish a race. That’s why he was able to be so much faster than anyone in 2005.

I remember Kimi going from 20th to 2nd in some races

I don’t remember Raikkonen starting 20th and finishing second in an F1 race. He’s done 22nd to third and 17th to first though, both very impressive.

I don’t understand any of the stuff about the steering wheel. Perhaps see this post about Interlagos ’07 though.

And correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it Lewis who destroyed the most cars in testing?

I’d like to see the stats on that if you have them…

Sorry to say that but you really seem not to understand F1 nor know much about F1. Looking only on numbers is good for TV infos but not for discussing which driver is better, especially on “F1fanatic” named site.

You say that Kimi started carrier in Mclaren and so do Lewis – and you compare their achievements on that field. I think everyone knows here how huge difference is between this two periods and car’s performance so I will not explain it here – but put Lewis in early XX century Mclaren and he wouldn’t do nothing special – it would be gr8 for him if he could maintain let say 70% of Kimis pace, couse I remember Kimi going from 20th to 2nd in some races…

You said that Lewis wouldn’t have made mistake on Silverstone in Kubica’s place – you figured it out after seeing him destroing his race with his steering wheel buttons (twice ), crashing Kimi on pitlane or maybe after not even making through the pit lane entrance last year??? And correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it Lewis who destroyed the most cars in testing???
It’s really shameles that people like you underastimate such bralliant drivers like Kubica and their achievements.

And I’m wondering how you can compare consistency and reliability of Kubica with a driver who has (or will have) special designed steering wheel on which buttons are hidden from the driver in a certain way????/ Yes, yes, your GOD LEWIS is going to have such nice gadget That’s something special about Lewis I must admit

Ok, let’s stop irony, hope you don’t feel offended in any way couse it wasn’y my goal. Conclusion is – Kubica has done the best so far this season and anyone claiming differently is clearly blind…