JayVee wrote:julian mayo wrote:
Some drivers, and I count Alonso amongst them will still do well in an imperfect car,others will not. Then you have the Sennas, Mansells, (and Webber in the Jaguar and the Williams, tho he is still learnng his trade), et al, who will take that less than perfect car, and, thru being able to use another dimension of mental ability, MAKE the car go around corners, quickly...by for instance taking unbelievable entry lines ,and or exit lines, by short and long shifting, changing braking points, by deliberately inducing slides or getting the back end to step out.
The guys who come thru the Go-Kart ranks and quickly get into F1 are the worst at it, the guys who spend some time in the tail happy F3000 ranks et al are better at it. Kimi has fantastic reflexes, but he is not the sort of person I am talking about.
Ute drivers know what I mean.
I don't usually quote F1 Racing but if you read the latest issue, Alonso is the cover story. Read it if you get a chance!
And if Webber is still learning his trade, wouldn't you think Alonso has a lot yet to learn given that he is a few years younger
I thought you gave up your subscription to " F1 Racing...because of their inaccurate reporting"....
If you would take the time to come to an australian race track and see the SUPPORT races to V8 supercars such as where Webber has learned what he knows, if you, and every other australian motor sport fan spent some money at the gate, then the classes would be bigger, the competition harder, and our blokes would be better equiped to face the ruthless cut and thrust of european racing. Here they race against the same faces in a 20 car field. In Europe they have to be good enough to get a drive,and when they do get a drive, it is in huge fields, and often a third of the field have crashed each other out by the half way mark. Webber blew everyone away here in an old, bent chassis, particularly in the rain, he was good enough to get a WORKS mercedes drive, Flavio doesn't waste time on people who cannot drive, Sir Frank seems to have a little bit of ability at choosing drivers, even if he nearly had one driver almost lose an "unloseable championship".
Our blokes always " mature"' late because of the lack of gate paying fans
who inhibit the growth of the support fields in YOUR country.
Care for a lift to Bathurst so you can see first hand the up and coming single seat pilots. You will have to come home on the Saturday afternoon tho, so I can watch the V8s on TV and do a review for the forum.
The Mountain is a savage Mistress.
jenni dahlman... hmmm... 
