F1 Fanatic

Yes, but I like the sound of Brundle’s technical things.

As someone who has the choice of BBC or Sky, I think maybe I’ll watch the pre and post race stuff on Sky and the race on the BBC. I love Edward’s commentary, but I do hope he’ll continue doing the BTCC when he can.

This is specifically 2011 performance.

Webber, Schumacher and Rosberg are all too high in my opinion. I’d put Perez, Sutil, Alguersuari and Di Resta in front of all of them.

No, it’s not that the midfield is less inspirational. It’s just that people like supporting anyone who is at the front, even subconciously. I personally don’t really care about the front-runners and concentrate on […]

What I mean is that there is a tendency to rate drivers in the front-running teams higher than those in the midfield when in fact the midfield driver is doing a better job without the results to show for it. If […]

Maldonado, D’Ambrosio and Kobayashi should probably be higher. Webber, Massa and Glock should be in this section.

I personally feel that Raikkonen will be absolutely thrashed by Grosjean (with his fans still making excuses) and will leave by mid-season. Then all his fans will say how cool he is just for doing that.

No, he doesn’t deserve a top 8 ranking. He only got the wins because of the car. If he had been driving for a midfield team and had had so many incidents then everyone would be calling for his head.

Still… he wasn’t quite as bad as you seemed to suggest. I mean, he was usually reasonably close to Liuzzi and was very close to Ricciardo. I don’t remember him doing anything completely stuoid either.

But how do you explain Singapore and Brazil then? And as it happens, I wasn’t too impressed by Schumacher either.

I didn’t necessarily mean that Senna was faster all the time. But when he beat Petrov by over a second in Spa and Singapore, and by eight tenths in Brazil, that raises questions about Petrov’s speed.

@Keith Collantine

I know, I wasn’t blaming you. It’s not only FOM though that seems not to care – many more casual fans can only name the front-running drivers and don’t care one bit about anyone not fighting […]

@Keith Collantine
I know, I didn’t notice that thread for some reason. Even if I had nominated it though it wouldn’t have got any support due to the general disregard for the midfield and the even more general […]

It’s dissapointing that this seems to focus far too much on the top teams. If it was a free choice, then I’d go for Maldonado around the outside of Kobayashi at Stowe at Silverstone – or Kobayashi’s late-braking […]

I’m sorry, but Hamilton swerved towards Maldonado too. Also, you could argue, by his greediness he was endangering Maldonado. He actually made contact with him at the last chicane. Bear in mind that Maldonado was […]

Sutil and Di Resta. If Sutil finds a better seat (which I think he deserves) then Di Resta and Hulkenberg, but I think that would be a terrible line-up. Hulkenberg didn’t impress me at all in 2010