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Scribe, why was Rosberg gifted a podium by others dropping out but you don’t point out Kubica benefited the same way in Spa – where he also lost position due to his own fault, like Rosberg did in China? Just seems a bit selective.

There is no denying Rosberg is a great driver, i rate him higher than Button, but for me he lacks the flair and aggession that kubica has.

So did Prost. Just saying.

Good point, I didn’t rate Kubica’s Spa driver that highly, he lucked out an had the oppourtunity to do better, however he was sensational in qualifying.

Point remains though, Kubica lucked into 1 podium, Rosberg lucked into all of them. An Australia and Monaco where far more impressive from Kubica then say, Sliverstone and Malaysia. Kubica has also done better when things haven’t worked out, Singapore being quite sensational, do you think Rosberg might have pulled of those passes?

As had been said above though, Driver X compared to Driver Y threads must be subjective if they are in different machinery. My opinion is that Rosberg has done a solid job and moved up the ranks when others have retired, while Kubica has forced himself into contention and made his own luck.

He might have. People tend to forget Kubica’s speed advantage at that stage of the race. Who knows?

I don’t see why Rosberg’s China podium was lucky. If it was Kubica I bet people wouldn’t say he was lucky and only made the same mistake the eventual race-winner did.

Again, to me neither has proven to be at the very top. Brundle comparing Kubica to Alonso was a rare blip by the man. Webber and Button? Sure. Hamilton and Vettel? We’ll see. I think Kubica will prove to be a better driver than Rosberg but at the moment it’s circumstancial.

Anyway personally, I think the gorilla’s better:

http://www.f1badger.com/2010/10/polar-bear-gorilla/

Kubica has same quality Alonso has – he can extract more performance from midfield car then other drivers. Once he gets a car that can challenge for the wins at every race he will be a very strong championship contender. Rosberg is a good driver as well but I don’t really see him pushing the car beyond its limits. He keeps his head down and does a good job – he is humiliating Schumacher this season after all but he lacks the spark that will push him a bit extra towards the goal. Besides, while in Williams he failed to capitalize when opportunity presented itself (Badoer-like mistake when cruising towards podium finish or even challenging for a win at Singapore).

My vote goes to Kubica as I think he has that certain “ingredient X” which I don’t see in Rosberg.

Sorry Alexi, but how can you make all these statements as if you know everything about drivers and who’s supposed to be better than who? Until Kubica partners Alonso perhaps one day it’ll be very difficult to compare both is you consider all the factors, either psychological or to do with their car, team and team mate. Also, I’m not sure how you attached the ‘nice guy but he can’t cut it’ label to Kubica? He doesn’t really speak that much or give away a lot of his personality at this stage, I don’t think. Both him and Kobayashi are clearly brilliant in their own ways, which they have proved this year. I don’t think we can put drivers on a definite scale as they’re all different, which like I said, is why a thread like this will encourage largely subjective posts.

“while Heidfelds singapore crash was avoidable.”

Yes, if Sutil had chose to put his brain in gear first rather than his car :P Using Nick as a measure is fine when discussing Kubica but not much with kamui when he’s had more time out racing than even Massa had after his injury.

What I mean by avoidable is slowing more when the yellows are out, especially on a street circuit….

And this still doesn’t change the fact that Heidfeld suck :p