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Trouble I find with F1 (most motorsport actually) is that, obviously, being such an expensive sport - mostly on the mega rich/connected get to the top, this the gulf in class from the fastest to slowest (most talented / least talented), considering there's only 20 guys out there, is quite vast.
I mean, Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso, Verstappen - all being on the same grid, in the elite formula, as Jolyon Palmer, Kvyat, Stroll, Ericsson - probably shows there's a gap of up to a second from fastest to slowest in terms of raw speed from fastest to slowest guy.
Point being, looks to me outside the aforementioned, I just see a bunch of rich kids out there making up the numbers / blocking out the emerging talents in the lower formula (other rich kids, mostly).
As the seasons are going by, I'm not really sure what people are seeing in Carlos that shows supposed star quality. He's clearly a nice guy, and previous mechanics who worked with both he and Kvyat speak highly of Sainz.
But, I've not seen a true elbows-out drive from him - just some extremely solid races. Nothing that to me suggests utter star quality.
Maybe I'm missing something (probably).
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