Grand Prix Rejects

noisebox wrote:This is in Autosport this week - it's the top 10 drivers according to the current team bosses (ranked on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis):

1. Sebastian Vettel 76
2. Jenson Button 67
3. Lewis Hamilton 65
4. Fernando Alonso 39
5. Rubens Barrichello 35
6= Kimi Raikkonen 30
6= Mark Webber 30
8. Felipe Massa 19
9. Robert Kubica 10
10. Adrian Sutil 8

That seems a lot fairer to me. Hamilton maybe still a bit high, as with Alonso, but its more in line, imo

Alonso did a fantastic job with a bathplug piece of brass, because:
-Neither Piquet nor Grosjean were able to score points when even Bourdais did with the Toro Rosso (plus they were frequently trashed by almost the entire field). They're not great, but certainly they're not as bad...
-He got a pole and a podium, and missed other points-paying positions (perhaps a podium at Belgium and Hungary).
-He had to deal with all the Crashgate fuss from mid-season onwards.
-He qualified 10th at Interlagos with the worst car of the grid.

noisebox wrote:This is in Autosport this week - it's the top 10 drivers according to the current team bosses (ranked on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis):

1. Sebastian Vettel 76
2. Jenson Button 67
3. Lewis Hamilton 65
4. Fernando Alonso 39
5. Rubens Barrichello 35
6= Kimi Raikkonen 30
6= Mark Webber 30
8. Felipe Massa 19
9. Robert Kubica 10
10. Adrian Sutil 8

I call that vindication.

noisebox wrote:10. Adrian Sutil 8

No points for guessing where these 8 points came from...

Klon wrote:

noisebox wrote:10. Adrian Sutil 8

No points for guessing where these 8 points came from...

Ferrari? As compensation for having both Luca Badoer (in parc ferme) and Kimi Raikkonen (on track) smash into him?

I think Alonso could have done better this season, but why should he have bothered? As soon as he realised that the car wasn't capable of winning, and that crash-gate was going to catch up on the team, he had nothing to gain from Renault. An understandably average season imo.

The "real" Autosport rankings (i.e. as decided by them) are in as well, and it looks like it's only me and them who rate Hamilton as the driver of the year.