F1 Fanatic

I’m curious as to how you lot here, rate the current F1 Drivers.

There are 4 Tiers; Tier 1 being the best, and Tier 4 being the worst.

Tier 1:
Kubica, Hamilton, Button, Vettel, Webber, Alonso.

Tier 2:
Rosberg, Kobayashi, Massa, Sutil, Barrichello.

Tier 3:
Trulli, Kovalinen, Glock, Poomacher, Hulkenburg, Petrov, Luizzi, Buemi, Alguersuari, and Heidfeld (For now…)

Tier 4:
Yamamoto, Senna, Chandhok, Di Grassi, De la Rosa.

I look forward to your own hierarchy. :]

Tier 1
Fernando Alonso (Schumi in his old form)

Tier 2
Massa, Hamilton, maybe Kubica, Jenson for racing brain and craft, Webber, Vettel

Tier 3
Rosberg, Rubens

Tier 4
the rest but they have their own mini tier system. Basically very good drivers but nothing special.

in his own tier – Yamamoto.

Good thread by the way.

tier 1, hamilton , button and alonso.

after all they are world champions, webber, vettel and kubica havnt done it yet and it will be interesting to see which of the 3 actually do!

I have excluded herr s, as he is a has been and I never liked his ruthless/cheating streak

Most of the rest are mere journeymen and make up the numbers, bit like the premier league I suppose

Err, my excluding Massa wasn’t deliberate, I’d put him in Tier 2 in 08/09 form and in Tier 3/4 this year.

I’m suprised you have Alonso way out on his own like that Steph, that much better than Hamilton? 2007? All opinion of course.

I think 4 tiers isn’t enough tiers, Webber and Alonso don’t belong on the same tier, Vettle Kubica, Hamilton Button etc.

Vettle is fantastic over 1 lap, and at the front, he’s got the car to take advantage of that fact but almost every other aspect of his racecraft is lacking, true great, I don’t think so, get a Hamilton or an Alonso next to him he’ll crumble superfast. Webber’s a battler but again he doesn’t go beyond his car, Buttons a tactical wizz but again, can’t stretch beyond his car.

Controversial but I reckon if Truli was in the same car as Vettle he’d do just as well. Monaco 04.

Fair enough, add more Tiers if you like. Y’know, some interesting choices there; I guess we all agree the GP2 drivers who joined this year, are finding F1 life hard.

Tier 1:
Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel

Tier 2:
Button, Kubica, Massa, Rosberg, Webber

Tier 3:
Glock, Heidfeld, Hulkenburg, Kobayashi, Kovalainen, Sutil, Trulli

Tier 4:
Liuzzi, Petrov

The rest have yet to be tested to any accurate degree, in my book, that’s if you consider Yamamoto a driver at all (for the record, I am withholding judgement on Schumacher)

Sorry my reply is so late Scribe!

I’m taking everything into account not just this season and for me, Alonso is the full package head and shoulders above the rest. He is consistent (not as comfortable saying that this year), overtakes, works out strategy, moulds a team around him, is always there to capitalise when it goes wrong for the opposition and his only real let down is his qualifying although he seems to have worked on that.

Hamilton is still error prone at times although his level of maturity this year means he’s somewhere inbetween tier 1 and 3 for me on that level but I personally don’t think he can work out a strategy. It’s great because he has a team like Mclaren which is exactly what he needs but I think he’d find life harder in that area if he was at say, Williams. Just my opinion of course and I do have a great amount of respect for him but to me Fernando has a bit more substance to Hamilton’s wonderful style.

Tier 1:
Kubica, Hamilton, Button, Vettel, Webber, Alonso, Massa, Schumacher.

Tier 2:
Rosberg, Kobayashi, Sutil, Barrichello, Trulli.

Tier 3:
Kovalinen, Glock, Hulkenburg, Petrov, Luizzi, Alguersuari, Heidfeld, De la Rosa.

Tier 4:
Yamamoto, Senna, Chandhok, Di Grassi, Buemi.