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I think he meant that as he’s decent now, he could be much better without such a large gap in his CV- as the topic of the thread suggests. Do you really not think that with better experience he may have reached […]

Are you sure? He is a decent driver now

Yes, I’m sure. “Decent” simply isn’t good enough in Formula 1 these days. Senna might have out-scored Maldonado 14-4 before Spain, but he should have had twice as many […]

₤100,000,000 in total is still incredible. It amazes me how rich these F1 drivers really are.

Out of the sport. he probably would have had his chance, failed to impress, and been quietly dropped.

Are you sure? He is a decent driver now, he was out-scoring Maldonado 14-4 before Spain. If he had the racing […]

haha well of course it’s not 100m every year

One hundred million pounds sounds incredible, but it’s probably going to be one hundred million in total, rather than one hundred million every year.

However, where do you think he’d be if he never missed out on 8 years of his racing career?

Out of the sport. he probably would have had his chance, failed to impress, and been quietly dropped.

I’ve noticed […]

He’s not bad, but I’m not sure he’s good enough to be in F1. Call be cynical, but I just don’t think he’d have got as far as he has with his famous name. I’m not saying he wouldn’t have got anywhere, but […]

If he did full time karting in his teenage years, he would probably have already entered Junior Formula by 2000, when he was 16; and by 2005, when he was 21, he’d be in F1 already.
He would be a much better […]

I didn’t think Senna did any full time racing again until 2005.

I think he could be much stronger anyway. Who knows where he could have ended up.

I will take issue with this though:
“Even this year, […]

I’m not sure I agree with what @roald says about not having as much natural talent as the rest of the grid, I think he does have a lot of natural talent, but he’s less refined and experienced, due to the long […]

@robk23 – HAHAHA! I had that same strange thought!

When I read the title of thread I thought it was the latest extreme penalty issued by the stewards.

Hard to tell. All I’m going to say is he has about the least natural talent out of the entire grid in my opinion… he doesn’t seem like the racing type of guy either if that makes any sense.

Interesting… Just shows how good Alonso has been – 21 pts in quali but 61 in reality. Also how poor Schumacher has been 44 in quali and 2 reality

@raymondu999
Of course! Alonso is really just an average driver. F1 is really just building Alonso as a racing god to gain popularity and viewers in Spain! Button and Hamilton became champions in two consecutive […]

@Kingshark Yep.

It’s just that the drivers in the slower cars such as the McLarens and Red Bulls have made up the difference and overcome Alonso’s car advantage on the other more driver-dependent circuits […]