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IMHO, the following are my obvious ones -
Jean Alesi - If only he went to Williams instead of Ferrari! Monster talent, but too emotional Gilles Villeneuve - Like Alesi, perhaps too much heart & balls, not enough ruthlessness, a waste of a special life.. Sir Stirling Moss - Just one of those things Sir Jackie Stewart - If he kept racing Aytron Senna - when you see how close Hill got, it would've been his for sure! Sadly missed.. Juan Pablo Montoya - See Alesi & Vileneuve! |
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There was one race where de Angelis was genuinely ill, can't remember which though. Modena was just a wimp. With inane superstitions. They even named a team and a town after him and he still did nothing.
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Don't tell Knowlesey , but I think JPM was a great loss to F1. Still, he seems happy doing NASCAR, so good luck to him.
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Some great contributions through this thread - my two contributions (sorry if I'm repeating anyone) are: Johnny Herbert - such a class act in the lower formulae, winning or right at the front consistently but of course the Brands shunt left him physically unable to drive an F1 car to it's limit for quite some time. I do wonder what a truly fit Johnny might have been able to achieve. Jan Magnussen - he really looked like he had the goods all the way into F1 but once there seemed to simply fade away. Wonder just what he would have been able to achieve if someone had been able to unlock his speed? |
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Pretty sure I touted his name back in post #22 . He was definitely one to enjoy himself out of the cockpit. Even as far back as his FF1600 season with Foundation Racing he was drinking and smoking away from the race track IIRC.
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cant add more to that. he was a good no.2 stayed a no.2 and definately became a never was which is a crying shame because he never really delivered apart from the first few years because he didnt go places like he should have deserved to. Gilles Villeneuve - Like Alesi, perhaps too much heart & balls, not enough ruthlessness, a waste of a special life.. couldn't agree more, without viewing this as distasteful villeneuve as much as people like him he's viewed through RT glasses, he'd never have won a wdc as there was so much competition, favouritism around his time and definately wasn't in the right place at the right time, if people remember ferrari dropped into relative obscurity for a good 6/7 years just about after '83 as the machinery was uncompetitive before '83 and after they were simply overshadowed. Sir Stirling Moss - Just one of those things like all the guys on this list its all one of those things, its because he had the crash in his prime if he kept on racing he'd have been today's equivalent of david coulthard. Sir Jackie Stewart - If he kept racing 8 years, why?! but he had loads of reasons and he is probably the smartest of the lot, he got out asap mostly for safety reasons he'd have stayed a tyrell man, he wouldnt have pulled them out of the position theyd have found themselves in shortly after retirement as ferrari would have got the better of him/them, he got out in his prime so of this list he is definately the most likeliest to have not won another title if they all kept racing. Aytron Senna - when you see how close Hill got, it would've been his for sure! Sadly missed.. wow we know. he'd have most probably won a 100+ gp's before he retired Juan Pablo Montoya - See Alesi & Vileneuve! absolutely gutted when montoya left, 2 people to add to this list, peterson without a doubt, forget andretti, RP 10 gp's could have easily been almost twice that if he wasnt the no 2 all the time. niki lauda, maybe if he didnt get bored and stayed on at brabham then maybe '81-'83 even '82 might have been his. |
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his son hasnt dissapointed aswell, who will undoubtedly become formula 3 champion if he stays on next year. or so he says!
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Giancarlo Fisichella. One of the smoothest, fastest and most precise drivers I've seen, beautiful technique and 1997 made him look like a world champion in waiting. All the hype was about Ralf Schumacher but Fisi quickly got the better of him and his drives on the 'proper racetracks' (Monaco, Canada, Spa, Hockenheim) were stunning, he should have won two or three Grands Prix that season which for a youngster was superb. Same in 1998 - he had the Canadian GP all wrapped up and then the turning point seemed to be when he managed not to win that one - his star gradually faded through some turgid years at Benetton, he finally took his first win in that freak wet race in Brazil for Jordan but by that point had been treading water for ages and was already in his thirties.
When he finally, deservedly got into a top, Championship-winning car in 2005/2006 he was well into his thirties and up against Alonso in what was very much Alonso's team, and he seemed defeated before he even turned a wheel. After his win in Australia 2005 I thought he'd cracked it, but no. He was such a disappointment. Spa 09 proved he still had something special but he was just too flaky at crucial moments, wasn't he? Such talent, but IMO a slightly weird career with far too much treading water. |
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Eddie Irvine
David Coulthard Alex Zanardi |
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I know he never made it to race in F1 but James Courtney.
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I saw watching the video earlier today of Johnny Herbert's lap in the restored Mazda 787B at LeMans, and it hit me he may qualify for this thread, and I don't think was mentioned previously. Had he not had his Brands F3000 accident, he would have gone to F1 earlier and I believe achieved much more then he did.
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James Courtney is a good driver, but he's been terrible in 2011. What the heck happened to him?
Some of these other more recent drivers, however, had their chances: Herbert, Irvine, Fisichella, Coulthard, and were consistently beaten by their team mates. So I don't think any of them were world champion material. Zanardi was really fast on his day though. I never really understood why he couldn't cut it in F1. Maybe he just needed more time. He was more dominant than Montoya in the states in the same car. And Montoya is a driver that could have been champion if he had a fast enough car under him. I'd love to have seen Seb Loeb in F1 instead of Rally. I think he probably would have been a multiple champion. |
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Herbert, Irvine, Coulthard, Fisichella were B grade drivers, in that they would never be WDC's. On the right day they could work themselves up to win a GP, but I don't think the consistency was ever there. Good drivers no doubt, but I could never see any of them being WDC. |
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I do believe that had Ganassi not swapped to the Toyota engine for 2000 then Montoya would have cantered to that title too. Iirc, he led over half the laps that season, yet only picked up 3 wins due to poor reliability from the Toyota engine.
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mountainstar, re Herbert. Had it not been for his terrible 3000 accident, most team owners were pretty much in agreement that he was a special talent as his Benetton tests confirmed in 1987/88. The guy did amzingly well to be competitive for as long, and win those 3 races after such a determined recovery. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that we would have been talking about a mutliple WDC in the 1990's. |
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