[Nicky91]

poll incoming

[Nicky91]

for me that are Michael Schumacher, Hakkinen, Juan Pablo Montoya, De La Rosa, Sato, Frentzen


the two former in this, are obvious i guess


but

Montoya: well he so deserved to be world champion and that's that!

De La Rosa: great driver, stunning personality he has

Sato: the GOAT japanese driver, that's that

Frentzen: well very talented, and shame he no longer is active in the sport in some role, but having a regular job nowadays, he is a nice guy

[Alf]

You can't beat the Senna, Prost and Mansell era, late eighties, early nineties.

How have you not got Nigel Mansell on that poll, when you have lesser British drivers on it?

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Alf

You can't beat the Senna, Prost and Mansell era, late eighties, early nineties.

How have you not got Nigel Mansell on that poll, when you have lesser British drivers on it?

Nigel is apparently my second cousin or something daft like that .. certainly related but not closely

[Niamh.]

Kimi Raikkonen

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Alf

You can't beat the Senna, Prost and Mansell era, late eighties, early nineties.

How have you not got Nigel Mansell on that poll, when you have lesser British drivers on it?

i have other in the poll



true Prost is an icon too, from driver to team owner



but ''lesser british drivers'' i mean Coulthard deffo was an ace in his time, quite a dream team with Hakkinen as well at McLaren (better than Norris/Piastri now in my opinion, whom both got enormous ego's which i can see backfire on them at some point tbh)


same with Eddie Irvine, an ideal teammate for Michael Schumacher, and who did himself quite decent-ish as the number 1 driver at Jaguar (with a lesser car)



to succeed in F1 you need Talent, AND a good car, a combination of both, like for example put Max Verstappen in a aston martin, and he won't win anything anymore


i think someone who i wanna mention in ''other'' is Giancarlo Fisichella (who was a great teammate to Fernando Alonso, still speaks praise of Alonso nowadays btw and rooting for him to be on a podium again somehow)

Alexander Wurz honorable mention, a fast paced driver in a lesser car, who had a couple of fastest laps despite the car he was in, not being contender material




but tbh they speak about the ''pay drivers'' of today being bad, well many years ago you had the likes of Zsolt Baumgartner, Gianmaria Bruni, Yuji Ide and those were even worse


Gaston Mazzacane is someone on a whole different level tbh, King of Last Places whom overtook Hakkinen to unlap himself in the most iconic way in what was it, Brazil

[Zizu]

I only have two favourites

Nigel Mansell. ( obviously)

Max Verstappen who’s driving style reminds
me of Nigel