He won 13 GPs in 15 years in the sport after spending more than half his career driving Adrian Newey cars. He’s basically Sergio Perez of the late 90s.
He won 13 GPs in 15 years in the sport after spending more than half his career driving Adrian Newey cars. He’s basically Sergio Perez of the late 90s.
Gilles Villeneuve only had six wins in his career.
https://racingnews365.com/coulthard-on- ... the-carpetBut the Scottish ex-F1 driver turned broadcaster reckons Russell is in for an eye-opening year alongside Hamilton, as his lack of experience at being an F1 frontrunner will trip him up on occasion. "I also think George is in for an awakening," Coulthard said. "He's still a puppy and puppies occasionally pee on the carpet."
To be fair, I don't see Russell being on the receiving end of "British bias" much. Hell, Russell barely even gets love from Mercedes' own "fans" despite driving excellently this season.AR3-GP wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024, 02:17FWIW, David Coulthard used this metaphor to describe George Russell a few years ago.
https://racingnews365.com/coulthard-on- ... the-carpetBut the Scottish ex-F1 driver turned broadcaster reckons Russell is in for an eye-opening year alongside Hamilton, as his lack of experience at being an F1 frontrunner will trip him up on occasion. "I also think George is in for an awakening," Coulthard said. "He's still a puppy and puppies occasionally pee on the carpet."
So it is not strictly british bias (other than the coddling of #4 ).
only in the second half of the season, after upgrades.
Gilles only drove like 60 GP.Seanspeed wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024, 00:59Gilles Villeneuve only had six wins in his career.
And DC is easily the worst driver in F1 history to attain 10+ wins. It's insane how utterly mediocre he was, getting outpaced by almost every teammate he ever had, over and over and over again, and simply got ultra lucky to find himself in a bunch of front running cars where he could occasionally pull off a win when the Mclaren was the class of the field that day and his teammate was out of luck.
Good choice! Fuoco is an excellent driver, one of the best from Ferrari's WEC crew this season. Happy to see him getting a chance in an F1 car.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024, 13:35Antonio Fuoco prepares for Abu Dhabi FP1 in F1-75 at Fiorano
https://scuderiafans.com/ferrari-antoni ... t-fiorano/
As Bearman is no longer considered rookie with 3 races this year, Ferrari needs another driver to test in FP1. Afterwards, there will also be a dilemma who to put in the car for post-season Young Driver Test
https://cdn-1.motorsport.com/images/mgl ... f1-75.webp
DC never convincingly beat any of those if you were really watching, though. He was slower than all of them, basically every season, and only scored more on the odd occasion largely through better luck.Cs98 wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024, 18:07Gilles only drove like 60 GP.Seanspeed wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024, 00:59Gilles Villeneuve only had six wins in his career.
And DC is easily the worst driver in F1 history to attain 10+ wins. It's insane how utterly mediocre he was, getting outpaced by almost every teammate he ever had, over and over and over again, and simply got ultra lucky to find himself in a bunch of front running cars where he could occasionally pull off a win when the Mclaren was the class of the field that day and his teammate was out of luck.
DC beat Hakkinen twice, beat Kimi, beat Webber. He's not an all time great but far from mediocre. If we want to brand his career as mediocre we will have to judge someone like Charles similarly, at least judging by what he's done so far. I don't think that's fair.