Jensons future
Discussion
Vaud said:
El stovey said:
It’s all great for him but I’d love to see him back in a competitive F1 car.
That time has passed. And this is contentious - but he was not a great. Good, but lacked focus at times and lacked the "killer instinct" vs his peers.He was never ‘a great’ in my view, very good, but let’s be honest he was quite lucky with his championship winning year.
But like any driver, you get a winning car, you should be winning and fighting for a championship.
DS240 said:
Agree. I liked Jenson and though not ever my main focus I always hoped him success.
He was never ‘a great’ in my view, very good, but let’s be honest he was quite lucky with his championship winning year.
But like any driver, you get a winning car, you should be winning and fighting for a championship.
On his day, he had a touch that was often second to none. Memories of his Spa practice in his rookie year and the wrongly-positioned 100m board, putting that year's Williams in some surprising places. There were enough "wow" moments to show that his WDC wasn't just about the car.He was never ‘a great’ in my view, very good, but let’s be honest he was quite lucky with his championship winning year.
But like any driver, you get a winning car, you should be winning and fighting for a championship.
But somewhere he lost confidence in himself. Was that Flavio's influence? There were this messy contract problems. And the "wasted" Honda years. But he did enjoy the money...
skwdenyer said:
On his day, he had a touch that was often second to none. Memories of his Spa practice in his rookie year and the wrongly-positioned 100m board, putting that year's Williams in some surprising places. There were enough "wow" moments to show that his WDC wasn't just about the car.
But somewhere he lost confidence in himself. Was that Flavio's influence? There were this messy contract problems. And the "wasted" Honda years. But he did enjoy the money...
He had the spark of something great when he came into F1, dunno how much Frank doing a number on him dulled his racing edge Vs being tied to the honda for so long purely for Frank's payoffBut somewhere he lost confidence in himself. Was that Flavio's influence? There were this messy contract problems. And the "wasted" Honda years. But he did enjoy the money...
hairyben said:
skwdenyer said:
On his day, he had a touch that was often second to none. Memories of his Spa practice in his rookie year and the wrongly-positioned 100m board, putting that year's Williams in some surprising places. There were enough "wow" moments to show that his WDC wasn't just about the car.
But somewhere he lost confidence in himself. Was that Flavio's influence? There were this messy contract problems. And the "wasted" Honda years. But he did enjoy the money...
He had the spark of something great when he came into F1, dunno how much Frank doing a number on him dulled his racing edge Vs being tied to the honda for so long purely for Frank's payoffBut somewhere he lost confidence in himself. Was that Flavio's influence? There were this messy contract problems. And the "wasted" Honda years. But he did enjoy the money...
People also say the Brawn won, not Jenson. Rubens was no slouch and didn't do as good a job as Jenson did.
Would love to see him at Le Mans at the wheel of a GT3 McLaren.
Was a great story giving him a drive at McLaren, after so many people had written him off, I think people like that kind of thing. A bit like mansell overcoming years of never winning a race. Something F1 sadly misses now, there are no suprises, it's all to clinical, cloned Russian payg drones don't make a good sport.
markcoznottz said:
Was a great story giving him a drive at McLaren, after so many people had written him off, I think people like that kind of thing. A bit like mansell overcoming years of never winning a race. Something F1 sadly misses now, there are no suprises, it's all to clinical, cloned Russian payg drones don't make a good sport.
How do Verstappen and Ocon fit into that?wombleh said:
From reading his book, seems unlikely he'll return to f1 as it was a journey he went on with his old man.
He was done with F1. He only did Monaco as he had to, he had fallen out of love with it.He wasn't that good anyway. OK, but no Alonso/Hamilton.
He lacked the killer instinct (in comparison to others), and that is from someone who was very close to him his former team.
paulguitar said:
On planet earth though, the points are added up season by season. So it's 2/1 Hamilton.
I always count is as 1/1. He had zero input into the car for the 1st season and he barely even fitted into it for the first few races.At the recent WEC race he was putting in cracking lap times and was the only guy to really push the dominant Toyotas. Put him in a reliable car and he would be the quickest guy out there in LMP1.
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