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World championships win over national or continental championships. Therefore, the three best motorsport drivers of the decade were Schumacher, Loeb and Rossi. I consider endurance racing more like a team sport, and without a unified world sports car championship, it's hard for me to pick the best sports car driver of the decade.
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If I'm not mistaken, the F1 did race at Indianapolis under the rain. Of course, the entering speed at oval turn 1 was lower than those of IndyCar and Nascar Cup. I guess that Nationwide or Indy Lights cars could run on wet Milwaukee, New Hampshire and Martinsville without too much trouble.
That's true, but oval racing isn't a worldwide sport as formula racing or motorcycle road racing. And you can't compare the difference between Bristol and Indianapolis with the difference between Finnish gravel-surfaced mid-turn jumps and French Alps icey downhill hairpins. |
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no...you can't compare apples to oranges, but that is what this "contest" is about. |
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And the results are...
1. Michael Schumacher 32,087 pts. (25.7% votes as number 1) 2. Valentino Rossi 31,075 pts. (37.8% votes as number 1) 3. Jimmie Johnson 27,196 pts. (23.5% votes as number 1) 4. Sebastien Loeb 21,305 pts. 5. Sam Hornish Jr. 20,736 pts. 6. Tony Schumacher 20,201 pts. 7. Sebastien Bourdais 19,493 pts. 8. Tom Kristensen 16,817 pts. 9. Bernd Schneider 14,756 pts. |
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I would personally switch Rossi with Loeb but overall, those results can be agreed to.
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My top 4:
1. Valentino Rossi 2. Michael Schumacher 3. Sebastien Loeb 4. Jimmie Johnson |
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