Comments on: 2009 F1 driver rankings part 2: 15-6

By: Soumya Banerjee

Soumya Banerjee — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:59:23 +0000

How was Massa the better driver if Ferrari’s wrong choice of tyres for Kimi in Sepang and all those unreliabilities did him in? Load of crap.

By: Soumya Banerjee

Soumya Banerjee — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:57:39 +0000

So Keith,it was kimi’s fault that he suffered all those mechanical problems at Sepang,Catalunya and China? With an engine whose only 90% he could use? All these teammate comparisions are crap. If they count for so much then we could just abolish the rankings system and base the championship on the difference of points between teammates.

By: Soumya Banerjee

Soumya Banerjee — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:44:25 +0000

Hey TerryFab, atleast Massa saw development.And he was ahead of Raikkonen mostly bcoz of reliability failures of raikkonen. What can kimi do abt it? frankly if we listen 2 people like you, we can just abolish the championship and just see how teammates fare relative to each other

By: Senor Paz

Senor Paz — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:27:00 +0000

Roland,

That is rubbish, Massa was on course for a podium finish in Australia when his engine failed. Actually you should watch the start of that race again, just brilliant opening few laps for Felipe (unlike 2008).

And to say that he ‘waltzed’ to fourth in Silverstone from 11th on the grid is just laughable. You presumably see no merit in Felipe outpacing Kimi in the first stint with more fuel on board either.

It is true that Kimi beat Felipe in Q3 with 2 extra laps fuel in Turkey, but why the hell did he finish the race ninth while Felipe finished sixth? I’ll tell you why, just watch the start of that race again.

Kimi’s victory in Spa was most impressive – no one disputes that – but I think it’s only fair to judge two competing pilots when they’re racing together. Who knows what Felipe would have done in the second half of the season when Ferrari clearly improved?

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:48:41 +0000

If you want to see how the drivers should be ranked it’s easy just look at the championship standings. I find it kind of funny that everyone heaps praise on Hamilton but shoots down Raikkonen who scored only one less point than Lewis in an under-developed car as compared to the other drivers who had update after update to work with. By the way Massa only had one podium in Germany.

By: Twynholm

Twynholm — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:57:19 +0000

Raikonnen’s ranking is quite bizarre. Have a look at the relevant details of every race in the first half of the season and you’ll find why he reached mid-season with fewer points under his belt than Massa.

Plus, Hamilton has not had a comparable team mate in Heikki unfortunately – this complicates his ranking also, does it not?

I certainly think Lewis’s first half was less than impressive and personally Kimi should be ahead of him in any case.

By: Alonso did not a thing 2009

Alonso did not a thing 2009 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:26:21 +0000

Kimi 9th?! F1 Noobs is better name for this site.

By: glue

glue — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:16:20 +0000

you’re mistaking him with Alonso the 12-lap-fuel-load-so-I-could-at-least-take-a-pole guy

By: John H

John H — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:07:44 +0000

He should have been well clear in 2nd place, just like Button should have been well clear in 1st.

It wasn’t just to do with a ‘small accident at the beginning of the Yas Marina circuit.’

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:53:43 +0000

Actually he came to live when Ferrari finally gave him a car that didn’t break down most of the time and when they stopped making strategic blunders.