[Driver] Best race drive/race performances of recent seasons?

[Biscuits In A Red Bull]

Haha, same with Singapore really...

[John Turner]

Originally Posted by chunterer

But Button still favoured massively from the strange conditions encountered on the day, it wasn't a simple on the day fight back from the back was it?

Even Senna' in 1993 was remarkable because of the oddity of the race day weather but he did make everyone else look like rank amateurs!

The best drives have surely got to be ones when someone annihilated the field in pure dry conditions or pure wet with no safety cars or spanners thrown in the works to help them?

I can think of quite a few from waaay back in time but in RECENT SEASONS?

Valid point, Chunty, but perhaps a tad overstated. It takes a pretty special skill to drive competitively in wet/variable conditions. It's no less a skill than being able to drive the pants of a car in dry conditions. It's why I felt that the Hamilton/Button line up at McLarens was the best pairing of recent years.

I do think that JB's drive in Canada was exceptional, but like BiaRB, I am a bit of a fan but a perhaps a bit more measured, but he is a balancing antidote to Razzzor who clearly isn't (observation, not a criticism)!

EDIT apologies for below got carried away, NOT recent but left them in anyway! Maybe Rubens counts!

Another that comes to mind is Rubens at Silverstone 2003, and although I was never a fan, Schuey at Spain in 1996 (another wet one, IIRC). There are loads really but they will be before most on here were born - Stewart at the Ring (68 ish), Graham Hill also at the Ring in 62 when a certain Jim Clark also starred, Moss almost everywhere, but Argentina 58 and Monaco and Germany in 61 particularly come to mind. Fangio, again at the Ring in 57. The original Nurburgring is a standout track for great drives, inevitable given its length, technicality and inherent dangers!

[Biscuits In A Red Bull]

Rubens' first win was awesome...