kostas22 wrote:eurobrun wrote:I think people should hating on Bruno Senna.
I think they should continue, as he is a gloryhunting clown. He has deliberately used the Senna name to get himself to F1, even though his name in a typical English language format is Bruno Leali (in Portuguese the mother's maiden name is also included in their offspring's full name). Therefore he has deliberately gone against convention to use the Senna name, as if it were a brand. Yes, I know, Ayrton did it too, but he did it to hide the fact he was racing from his parents when he was young (his true surname being da Silva).
He does not have the talent to cut it in F1. He is riding along on Embratel money and his uncle's surname.
Didn't the CEO of OCX, which is another of Bruno's sponsors, boast at one point that he effectively bought Bruno's seat at Williams? One thing Bruno has been very effective at is attracting sponsors, since asides from Embratel and OCX, he also has some sponsorship from Gilette (and I think that he also has another personal sponsor, which I cannot remember off the top of my head) - combined with those comments from the CEO of OCX, it goes some way towards explaining the attitude that many have towards Bruno.
As to his relative talent, personally I would say that he is a competent driver - he may have done fairly well in junior series (although he didn't really shine quite as brightly as some of his contemporaries, like Grosjean, Di Grassi or Perez), but he hasn't found his footing in F1. True, Maldonado may have been much more erratic in that same period - he may have won, but he has also crashed out and wasted multiple potential points finishes - such that Bruno is not that far behind Maldonado in the WDC (18 v 29 points).
Yet, Bruno's poor single lap pace - he is yet to qualify higher than 13th place - means that he consistently finds himself stuck in the midfield, and that puts him at a strategic disadvantage during the races, not to mention leaving him vulnerable to first lap crashes. On average, he has lost slightly more ground than he has made up at the start, and I also cannot recall him really making much progress through the field either in terms of passing other drivers. Now, that may be because the cameras have not caught that, but the sense so far this season has been of a competent but otherwise relatively unremarkable driver: essentially, a slightly slower, but much wealthier, version of Heidfeld.
