Comments on: Which rookies deserve an ’09 seat? (Poll)

By: salo

salo — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:44:46 +0000

Glock or Nakajima were not rookies. Glock drove in 2004 and Nakajima drove in 2007 (Brazil)

By: ice man

ice man — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:34:59 +0000

Well they all deserve to keep their seats some more than others. But i think vettel is a star of the future.
And i think if he was in the Ferrari he would be a good challenger for Hamilton.

By: PRIDE

PRIDE — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:53:35 +0000

THE FOUR OF THEM SHOULD STAY

I AM DISSAPOINTED WITH PIQUET. I THOUGHT HE WOULD GIVE MORE THAN ONCE A HEADACHE TO ALONSO. BUT HE IS IMPROVING EVERY RACE. SO HE SHOULD STAY. PROBABLY NOT EVERYBODY HAS THE OPPORTUNITY OF HAMILTON TO BE IN THE RIGHT TIME WITHE BEST CAR AND TEAMATE, ALTHOUGH I THINK HE IS GREAT.

I THINK GLOCK IS GOOD BUT NOTHING SPECIAL.

BOURDAIS DEFINETLEY NEEDS TO CONTINUE AND IF POSSIBLE BE IN A DIFFERENT TEAM. ITS HARD TO BE IN THE BEST AN GO TO THE SECOND WORST.
CONSIDERING VETTEL IS THE NEXT SCHUMACHER HAVING TWICE HIS EXPERIENCE I THINK HE IS NOT TOO BAD. AND WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN A TOP TEAM IN ANY RACE ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AND REGAIN THE POINTS AND BE EQUAL TO YOUR TEAMATE. YOU CAN SEE THIS WITH PIQUET. HE IS CONSISTENT AND FINISHES THE RACES, HE WAS FASTER THAN VETTEL IN THE OLD CAR, AND ALSO I THINK THERE ARE NO REPLACEMENTS. IF NOT THERE CAN BE LIUZZIS OR SPEED AROUND

NAKAJIMA IS REALLY BETTER THAN WHAT I EXPECTED. HE SHOULD STAY.

By: santori

santori — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:22:18 +0000

All of them. Though I’d prefer to see Bourdais in a team other than Toro Rosso, which seems a pretty unpleasant place to be.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:23:40 +0000

To rate each driver properly, people should take in consideration the whole environment including the team, the car, the experience in the series, the teammate, etc.

I really beleive Bourdais deserve another season. First of all he an Piquet are the only real rookies. Second he is in the worst team of all the drvers mentioned, and the new car has only two races well developed. I am sure that in the rest of the season he will be improving.

Although he has made it public many times he does not feal good with the car his pace is improoving (Last Jerez test) and in the last two races his qualy places has been not far from Vettel.

Piquet is the lucky one, although his debut was a disaster he has improved in the last two races including his last result.

Glock is ok, he is in a much better team as of this year but his team mate has outclassed him, and he is not a rookie.

Nakajima really deserves it, he is not a rookie by a race of last year, but has demonstrated to be head to head with Rosberg

By: qazuhb

qazuhb — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:23:31 +0000

Oh my! I did a Wikipedia search and found 25 Argie drivers, 19 more than those on my previous listing…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Argentine_Formula_One_drivers

By: qazuhb

qazuhb — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:18:03 +0000

F1Fan: You should add a humble 0.0001% Argentinian traffic to the breakdown Keith did. I’m a fan from the Fittipaldi/Lauda/Reutemann days, and find the information here much more balanced, fair and “objective” (if such thing exists) than that of the Spanish worshippers of the Asturian god. I think our country has been fairly well represented by Fangio and Reutemann in the F1 world, although we have had our fair share of lesser successful drivers (Froilán González, Marimón, Zunino, Guerra, Tuero and Mazzacane, I hope I’m not forgetting anyone).

By: DC

DC — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:01:27 +0000

I think it is more useful to compare the rookies against their teammates, who have the same equipment.

Fernando Alonso – 18 points
Nelson Piquet Jr. – 13 (72% of Alonso’s points)

Jarno Trulli – 22
Timo Glock – 13 (59%)

Nico Rosberg – 8
Kazuki Nakajima – 8 (100%)

Sebastian Vettel – 6
Sebastien Bourdais – 2 (33%)

By these measures, Nakajima is doing the best and Bourdais is doing the worst.

By: greg76

greg76 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:36:52 +0000

I voted for all of them.

Piquet and Glock both had difficult season starts but seem to have overcome their difficulties. Nakajima doesn’t do bad at all against an experienced and talented teammate, with a non-Japanese tendency to bring back the car home and in the points quite often.
It seems a lot of people are quite disappointed by Bourdais, but I still think he deserves a second chance.
The new car doesn’t seem to suit him and he is still something like 2 or 3 tenths behind his teammate, who is supposed to be the next big thing in F1. Anyway, Toro Rosso can’t put 2 rookies in their car next year, and Klien and Liuzzi won’t drive a Red Bull car any time soon. It doesn’t give that many options to Berger.

By: milos

milos — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:24:44 +0000

I would say all 4.

Nakajima is doing OK, although the same can’t be said about his team

Piquet seems to be turning his season around, if he shows some consistency in the rest of the races, he should be safe. But one can never tell with Flavio …

Glock took his time but he is now showing what he can do.

Bourdais – The guy is obviously struggling with the car, he admits it himself. I however think that he should get a chance with the 2009 car. Even more experienced drivers that him struggled with cars before – Barrichello after coming to Honda, Kubica after switch to Bridgestones, Heidfeld this year, even Kimi to certain extent …