Comments on: 2008 F1 drivers rankings part 1

By: Solid Snake

Solid Snake — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:09:19 +0000

Glock behind Webber boggles the mind

By: michael counsell

michael counsell — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:07:14 +0000

I forgot about Webber but I’ve changed my mind about Raikkonen. Glock should be 7th between Raikkonen and Heidfeld (also ahead of Kovalainen).

Other than that pretty much spot on, although I would probably rate Sutil and Fisichella behind Piquet to be honest.

By: michael counsell

michael counsell — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:04:37 +0000

Glock 12th!!! What he was probably top 6 or 7 in the second part of the season, ahead of Raikkonen, Kovalainen, Heidfeld given the cars at their disposal and Trulli given his experience and definitely better than Rosberg.

By: Alex Cooper

Alex Cooper — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:15:22 +0000

Timo Glock has really impressed me this year. He’d be up there with Massa for most improved driver throughout the year in my line-up.

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:45:17 +0000

Actually, I think I was a bit generous to Piquet Jnr. Swap him with Nakajima.

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:18:39 +0000

It’s a hard job – ranking the twenty best drivers on the planet, but I pretty much agree with your list Keith, although I’d swap Trulli for Glock, and shuffle the order around a bit. Here is my bottom twenty:

20. Button (I know the car was a dog, but Rubens managed to do something with it ! Someone who has been with the team for more years than I can remember now really should have fared better in even the worst car)
19. Fisi (again the car was not great but seasoned driver should have been able to do more with it)
18. Sutil (yet to see what all the fuss is about. Pretty much anyone could have achieved the results – or lack of – he did this season. Monaco was the exception, but one swallow does not a summer make.)
17. DC (should have retired one year earlier. A good driver in his day, but this year was not his day)
16. Nakajima (stayed out of trouble. Mostly. About the best that can be said for his season)
15. Trulli (looked increasingly desperate with some moves, and the dreaded Trulli Train featured at way too many GP’s for my liking. Close to being beaten by a rookie.)
14. Rosberg (Again the car was a bit of a handful, but a driver of this calibre – and I do think he is very good – really should have done more with it. Made quite a few rookie errors as well, and he should be past that by now)
13. Piquet (It was always going to be hard to shine in that car, and being paired with the best driver in F1 currently was always going to be a challenge. Was probably not as bad as Fernando made him look).
12.Barichello (Flattered that car & managed to extract a little something from it on occaison. The most experienced man in F1 deserved better from Honda)
11. Bourdais (shone at times, had pretty bad luck at others. Took awhile to adapt to the STR3, which counted against him. Better luck next year)

By: Striay

Striay — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:54:47 +0000

I think glock should have come higher up his season was good, yet not fantastic.

BBC F1 next year not for foreign users why? I live in spain damn.

By: sumedh

sumedh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:48:20 +0000

Nick Heidfeld not Bourdias; my bad..

By: sumedh

sumedh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:44:40 +0000

Let me guess; the top 6 would be Vettel, Alonso, Massa, Kimi, Lewis, and Kubika. Not in any particular order. All of them performed admirably. You said you will mention the top 4 in part 3.

So the 2 drivers whose name would come in part 2; I guess; would be Vettel and Kimi. Kimi should be behind Vettel in my book.

Trulli, Webber, Bourdias, Heikki should be 7-10. Of these; I think Trulli performed best.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:30:11 +0000

For me, Piquet and Glock are both placed too low.

I’d rate Glock’s season above Rosberg’s, which had a couple of great drives but was pretty erratic, or Kovalainen’s which, for whatever reason, slumped badly (I think Rosberg and Heikki are very good, by the way. I just don’t think their season’s were very good).

And I wouldn’t rate Piquet behind Button, Sutil, Fisichella or Coulthard. Maybe Nakajima. It was the pace of his team-mate which made him look worse than he was.

I totally agree. Piquet Jr. is way too low, why should Button, who did absolutely nothing along the year, be ahead of him? Ans Nico ahed of Glock? No way! What Nico did? A luckly second place? The same as Piquet…