Button as talented as Michael
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superkartracer said:
For Sure 
Yeah, for sure, we have all known that Jense had the potential to be at the top. If he is able to keep his head then yeah has the potential to be as successful as Schuey. Jenson is a proper nice bloke, very British and has a very consistent driving style. As the article states, this suits him very well when the car matches his style. I for one hope that he is able to continue to do so well throughout this season and the years to come. He deserves it after some of the criticism he had received over the past couple of seasons.
superkartracer said:
Put it this way, he is far better than Lewis regards getting the max speed from his machine. Another driver who can do that is Kimi, he always gets the faster apex speeds and fastest laps when the car is working well, and he's not pissed up/off
I don't see how you can say that based on Kimi's form over the last three years. Let's face it, he didn't really win the world championship did he ? More like Lewis gave it to him through inexperience.....flemke said:
jules_s said:
Hang on a mo,
Wasn't there a thread a while back on here where a LOT of people were slagging off JB along the lines of 'can't even beat his team mate?'
That may have been during the period when he wasn't beating even his teammate.Wasn't there a thread a while back on here where a LOT of people were slagging off JB along the lines of 'can't even beat his team mate?'
Stats can be read lots of ways I guess.
Personally, I can't remember thinking 'Jenson is doing really badly compared to his team mate' since his debut.
According to this:
http://f1-facts.com/statistics/team-mates/Button
Apart from his rookie season with Ralph and the subsequent season he outscored his team mates up until 2008 when RB got a third (in the rain wasn't it with some sublime tactics?)
I/that site could be wrong though...
Clevers said:
superkartracer said:
Put it this way, he is far better than Lewis regards getting the max speed from his machine. Another driver who can do that is Kimi, he always gets the faster apex speeds and fastest laps when the car is working well, and he's not pissed up/off
I don't see how you can say that based on Kimi's form over the last three years. Let's face it, he didn't really win the world championship did he ? More like Lewis gave it to him through inexperience.....jules_s said:
flemke said:
jules_s said:
Hang on a mo,
Wasn't there a thread a while back on here where a LOT of people were slagging off JB along the lines of 'can't even beat his team mate?'
That may have been during the period when he wasn't beating even his teammate.Wasn't there a thread a while back on here where a LOT of people were slagging off JB along the lines of 'can't even beat his team mate?'
Stats can be read lots of ways I guess.
Personally, I can't remember thinking 'Jenson is doing really badly compared to his team mate' since his debut.
According to this:
http://f1-facts.com/statistics/team-mates/Button
Apart from his rookie season with Ralph and the subsequent season he outscored his team mates up until 2008 when RB got a third (in the rain wasn't it with some sublime tactics?)
I/that site could be wrong though...
In addition to scoring more points last year, Barrichello also out-qualified Button 10-8. Although I don't believe that I would have commented at the time, I can see why some might have remarked on Button's relative underperformance in'08.
It is interesting when Barrichello says that Button is as fast and as talented as Schumacher. Should we attach great weight to his comparison, because Barrichello is perhaps the single best-qualified judge of the two, or should we attach little weight to the comparison, because Barrichello could be motivated to overestimate Button's performance in order to make his own seem better?
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