Comments on: F1 links: Massa’s charity and Mirko Bortolotti

By: John Spencer

John Spencer — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:00:37 +0000

Thanks Keith, I understand the 1995 thing now.

By: beneboy

beneboy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:47:41 +0000

I’m with John, Webber is a great bloke but he’s only a good driver.

He may have a physical disadvantage due to his size but the bad luck argument just doesn’t cut it with me.

Coulthard hasn’t really pushed him this season and I can see Vettel beating him consistently next season, and I thought this before Webber had his accident too.

Missing the winter testing, preparations for next season and the added weight of KERS are all going to count against him in a season where he’s teamed up with one of the best young drivers out there.

Daniel, in Murray’s defence Jacques is an easily forgettable driver, I remember him more for his moaning than his driving and always forget he’s won a World Championship.

By: daniel bone

daniel bone — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:27:00 +0000

love the way murry says he is the only man to win on his second championship, forgetting Jaques Villneuve

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:14:51 +0000

John, I think Hughes means Heidfeld out-scored Webber in the races they did together. Heidfeld missed the last five races of the year due to injury, prior to which he was 28-24 up on Webber.

By: John Spencer

John Spencer — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:06:59 +0000

Mark Hughes is a respected F1 journalist whose opinion is always worth reading. But has he drifted into a parallel universe? In 2005, Nick Heidfeld scored 28 points to Mark Webber’s 36. That’s what the formula1 site says, anyway. How is that Nick out-scoring Mark? Surely, Mark’s problem (apart from the whole bike car leg snap crackle pop business, and the relative obesity of both Webbo and the KERS system) is that people like Mark Hughes keep referring to his ‘traditional ill-luck’.

If you’re rational and understand probability you know that persistent bad luck is either a feeble excuse or simply improbable. So you might think twice before writing off all his DNFs as bad voodoo. Alternatively, if you’re superstitious and believe that Webbo really is prone to bad luck, then you’re not going to want him driving one of your cars in case his bad karma loosens the wheelnuts.