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[TD]Schumacher 29pts (27%), Rosberg 77pts (73%); so not very evenly matched.
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[TD]Schumacher 4 times on top in qualifying; Rosberg's 7; so not very evenly matched.
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[TD]Schumacher 179 laps spent ahead to Rosberg's 308; so not very evenly matched.
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Not very evenly matched.
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And, as I think we both agree, Rosberg's nothing special compared with the top drivers presently in F1.
Personally, I couldn't give a monkey's; but it seems statistics are painful when you pay so much attention to them, doesn't it?
You have to reply to everything I post?
1)Schumacher is lower on points mostly because of the disastrous reliability of the Mercedes on the right hand side of the garage, only twice has Schumacher ruined his own race this season, which is more than can be said for other drivers, Spain and Hungary (where he cocked up). Valencia and Monaco, where he shined.
2) Lets pay attention to the statistics and read further into them as you mentioned, Rosberg was **** in Qualifying in the start of the year. Schumacher capitalised mostly in Australia and Malaysia (wet).
Rosberg hit back in China, and in Bahrain, Michael was hit by DRS issues, a poor 8th and 9th in Spain and Canada.
In Monaco (a driver track), he gained a pole position. So for raw pace, excluding penalties, he showed he still has it. And what a better place to show it than the tight confines of the principality eh Cosicave?
In Britain in the rain, as we know the crap aspects of the car were nullified and driver pace/talent can be expressed through extreme conditions, Schumacher p3 and the same applies for Germany, in the race this was backed by the fall-back of the car into the hands of the faster cars (in dry conditions).
In Hungary, things went wrong on the driver side,
I am not so much of a fan-boy that I will make an excuse for every instance, but here he was appaling.
3) As for the laps spent ahead, that are a mix of car reliability and driver skill, as reliability has played more of a part in his 21st season in the F1 world, we can explain why Schumacher has suffered whereas Rosberg has been given the right tools to do well.
-Rosberg is not doing to well this part of the season no, in the rain he is pretty poor also, but when given a ****-box, how can he show that he can win?
-At the moment Mercedes are letting down both their drivers, and don't deserve their patience, I am surprised with the copious amount of money they have wasted, the bosses in Stuttgart have not yet closed them down for good.
Until Mercedes provide a car as consistent as Lotus/Ferrari/RB/Mclaren, we will never get a clear idea about how they are doing. The fact is, the invention of the DDRS, is probably the catalyst for the downward spiral as Gary Anderson has written about below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/19064856
So as Quali is the nearly faultless in showing us the raw pace in both drivers, 6-5 is not too bad. I cannot really make assumptions with the race statistics, as having one car with worse reliability then a HRT is not helpful.
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