[Dino IV]

Most common weakspots are mental ones.
That's where TGF's strength is and before long he suffered less from that than anyone else. Now Montoya has come to F1, TGF has serious competition in that respect. On top of that, given TGF's cars over the past decades he's had the least mental challenge. Protecting oneself for that is also very important. Compare that to i.e. Trulli where cars have failed on him at all the important moments, it's easy to say for otsiders that's 'character-building' or something, but in reality it's a very serious issue to cope with things like that and it will break you down unavoidingly if it persists long enough.

Trulli is a good example in that respect, as the Nurburgring GP showed. He ran a first stint close to Button, turning away the same laptimes. Then he made an overtaking mistake at the first corner, ran wide, had to turn around and continued, but he knew very well it was his mistake and it set him on fire - mentally speaking. Suddenly he lifted his driving to a higher level, almost unreal. Although he was on the same strategy as Button, he suddenly began lapping awesomely fast and in half a dozen of laps overtook anyone whom he lost his place to with his mistake. Suddenly he was both superfast and overtaking brilliantly leaving the others no chance at all. It was surprising that this mental 'uproar' ended when he found himself behind Button again. It was over as sudden as it came up and never returned that GP. It shows clearly what mental strength really means performance-wise.

Blank out - one way or the other - mental aspects and the driver's table would look totally different in the various aspects. That too shows how important the mental issues are.