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Henry XIII's codpiece.
In my view, one of the most (and there have been several) undeserving Ferrari 'number twos', deliberately chosen to back up a superior driver.
 
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Westlake33 said:
For people moaning re Prost

Would have won 88 but for dropping results, outscored senna
89, well if senna hadn’t broken the agreement at imola,,,, the crash wouldn’t have happened in Japan

Prost would have won either 81/82 but his Renault kept breaking down. Think 81 off top of head.

Never gets the respect he should Alain. The most complete driver to my knowledge. So quick when trying to go slow - takes some doing that.

Michael is my fav, but the team mate / orders side of thing unfortunately a black mark.

Senna also class. These 3 the best in my lifetime by a mile.

Fangio/ Clark surely the best pre these.

As for Hamilton, please... beaten by rosberg and helped by reliability/ extra races era. Good, but no better than Alonso.

Kimi the most overrated ever.
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People seem to forget that Hamilton would have had his 7 world championships already had not for the 2007 McLaren screw ups with he and Alonso, giving Kimi the title (and that was his 1st season), then 2016, with Mercedes screw-ups with reliability on his car and Rosberg playing a little dirty in qualifying.
 
DHCanary said:
I was listening to a podcast recently which raised the question of just how many drivers would have been capable of winning the 2000-2004 titles in that Ferrari, with a patsy for a team-mate?

I don't think anyone would say Hakkinen couldn't have. Montoya maybe? Raikkonen, Coulthard? Perhaps even someone like Heidfeld? (Who incidentally, ranks insanely highly whenever I see a statistical analysis of F1 drivers ability, he's regularly Top 25).



Incidentally, one analysis puts Gurney as the 14th best of all time - another puts him 43rd. Both articles are a few years out of date, but both worth a read.

The top 10 according to the Sheffield Academics (from 2016):
1) Fangio
2) Prost
3) Schumacher
4) Clark
5) Senna
6) Alonso
7) Piquet
8) Stewart
9) Fittipaldi
10) Vettel
Others worth mentioning:
12) Hamilton
16) Button
32) Danny Ric
34) Kimi
40) Nico Rosberg

And F1 Metrics (2014):

1) Clark
2) Stewart
3) Alonso
4) Schumacher
5) Fangio
6) Hunt
7) Nico Rosberg
8) Vettel
9) Ascari
10) Lauda
Others:
12) Hamilton
14) Kimi
16) Prost
17) Frentzen, just because...
19) Senna
20) Button

The full lists are on those links.
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Go online and look up Sunset Strong Rum...maybe those fellas who came to those conclusions had a few too many...lol
 
I have to give a shout to Emerson Fitipaldi, at the time the youngest F1 WDC, did it again 2 years later, then when he could've joined pretty much any team on the grid, signed for his brothers Brazilian F1 startup.
 
Big Ern said:
I have to give a shout to Emerson Fitipaldi, at the time the youngest F1 WDC, did it again 2 years later, then when he could've joined pretty much any team on the grid, signed for his brothers Brazilian F1 startup.
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Arguably an early Alonso. Could have done far better if he made better career choices.
 
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