F1 » Top ten F1 drivers: Felipe Massa [2]

good choice! he was a good 1st or 2nd in my books anyway, most improved driver in 2008

So, Vettel won it.

Firstly,all F1 drivers are the best in the world.
When Massa is in the lead,yes he drives like a champion,but if something goes wrong or he qualifies 6th or 7th i havent seen that killer instinct to put pedal to the metal to charge through the field like Alonso or Hamilton.For example,the night race where the pit stop went wrong ,after that he drove like a muppet and caused an accident(was it Sutil?,i forget) and remember the first races of the season where he wasnt very good.Lets not forget,he had the best car and a few points given to him and he still couldnt win the WC.He was gracious in defeat though.

smon, you mean like hamilton did in Japan, right ?

No he means "the" Hamilton in Monza (despite qualifying very low), in Monaco (despite clipping the barriers and busting a tyre early on), in Silverstone.

Never ever seen any kind of spectecular drives like these from Massa.He can go really fast when he's at the front, but tbh that's what he only does.Hamilton sure did make silly mistakes this year.But so did Massa.

A guy who spinned 5 times at Silverstone and who spinned volunteery his main rival is 2nd??? what a joke??

I guess the no 1 will be jenson button.

Vettel had a luck win like Jenson's. Let's see what he does next year

No, I guess you chauvinist Brits (Hamilton 4th?) have chosen Button

I guess STR had all there employees vote or something. Vettel deserves a top 10, maybe top 5 but 1st??? Let's see what happens next year, eventhough lady luck clearly smiles at him seeing Webber's accident. That could easily help him somewhat in the team duel.

And then Bourdais in 7th with 4 points...Say what now?

Otherwise the list is quite ok, eventhough I might have put Kubica in front of Hamilton as well, eventhough Kubica is overrated. But credits to you for not voting Hamilton first, because that would have been farcical.

@loeb:

Sorry, your comment was there yet when I started mine...Seems like we share much of the same opinion...

A lot of people make a comment about Massa at sliverstone (A bad day in the office for him)
But nobody mentions 4 times world Champion Alain Prost being nowhere in wet races even stopping his car to get out and walk away.

I know Massa is not in the same League as Prost but he did challenge for the WDC this year and he did improve as a driver.
And nearly won the WDC with FIA assistance.

I kind of expected Vettel to be number 1, because Hamilton fans will give Massa and Alonso a low score, and Hamilton haters will give Lewis a low score as well, and lets face it, Vettel hasn't done anything wrong, he's a nice guy who avoided controversy and drove very well for most of the season, so its to be expected really. And comparing Vettel to Button is a joke, Button is the most over-rated driver of this century!