I watch the races - Everytime Michael gets in front it's because Nico's team screw him up or some other unlucky thing happens, like dud tyres or somebody ramming him off the track. Michael just has more craft but he sure aint faster than Nico! loln smikle wrote:Michael has been outqualified like 16 or 17 times out of 19. That is huge. And Nico on average has started like 3-4 places above.Mr.S wrote:that's what the media say... but Nico has the better race pace IMO - he's just unlucky in some instances. I hope if Merc wins this year it's with NicO.n smikle wrote:He definitely had a better race pace last year and hopefully the new tyres will suit him well. I dont think he will retire at the end of this year. I hope he doesnt.
Michael has had more DNF,more technical & KERS-DRS issues than Nico.
No use denying the obvious,Michael's race pace has been far superior to Nico. Especially if you consider after the first 5-6 laps where Michael has had to work his way through a mess of slightly slower cars when Nico had clear track & faster cars ahead.
The stats said it all. You can look at races like Hungary where Michael hit a wet patch & struggled or was that some other race??? But you see Nico starting at 7th & MSC started at 13th & by the half way mark they are like 7th & 8th with MSC breating down Nico's neck.
The reason michael can get so close to Nico is because Merc had no direct competitors until later in the year. A huge gap behind the front runners then another huge gap to the midfielders. The cars will always gravitate towards 7th and 8th.[/quote]
Well in that case I doubt what kind of races you actually WATCH.
If you wnat to say Nico is back because his team screwed up then I WANT examples. Tell me which races.
Just like that I can give you multiple examples where Nico's race pace was Below Average & MSC did exceedingly well.
India -> No let-downs from the team. Michael conserved his tyres,overtook multiple cars & from 13th became 5th while Nico could not hold off,his race pace was slow in the begining & then his tyres gave away.
Spa -> You can argue about the safety car & Michael's newer tyres but Nico race pace was off.
China -> Michael started was back on the grid & THIS WAS NICO's best race. Great race by Ros but an analysis will show that after overtaking all the cars MSC's race pace was almost on par with Nico.
Montreal -> The master of the wet strikes
Hungary -> Crap race from Nico,let a 20 second odd gap from MSC go through & MSC was breathing on his neck & hit a wet patch. NO BS screw-up from the team.
As a matter of fact I cant remember 1 single race where Nico has been let down. Nico has probably been the luckiest of all drivers. He crashed his car & it was repaired in time for Monaco. He was first to pit in Canada in the wet while MSC had to loose huge time running ond dry tyres.
The examples go on. Michael had more KERS & DRS failures. More accidents,worse Qualifying perforamances. Nico's race pace has been quite average in compared to his BRILLIANT QUALY performances.
The only race where Nico on merit beat MSC on race pace was Abu Dhabhi
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