Kubica - nostalgia vs reality?.... (but £££)
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It makes for a great story doesn't it? F1 driver tipped for WC status has his career cruelly taken from him during some extra curricular driving, thanks to a horrific hand injury. Several years later, having adapted his driving style, he returns and proves that he's still 'got it', using his guile and experience to sweep aside his teammate and drag a poor car into positions it has no right to populate....
Except the story goes awry at the last sentence: 5 races in, Kubica has been roundly beaten by his rookie teammate, being outqualified and finishing behind him in the race every time thus far, always with a slower fastest race lap. Sometimes by notably big margins. Another driver in another team, this would be pretty damning stuff. It would be wonderful if he could turn it around, but right now it's looking like another poor decision by Williams....
Except the story goes awry at the last sentence: 5 races in, Kubica has been roundly beaten by his rookie teammate, being outqualified and finishing behind him in the race every time thus far, always with a slower fastest race lap. Sometimes by notably big margins. Another driver in another team, this would be pretty damning stuff. It would be wonderful if he could turn it around, but right now it's looking like another poor decision by Williams....
TheDeuce said:
trackdemon said:
It makes for a great story doesn't it? F1 driver tipped for WC status has his career cruelly taken from him during some extra curricular driving, thanks to a horrific hand injury. Several years later, having adapted his driving style, he returns and proves that he's still 'got it', using his guile and experience to sweep aside his teammate and drag a poor car into positions it has no right to populate....
Except the story goes awry at the last sentence: 5 races in, Kubica has been roundly beaten by his rookie teammate, being outqualified and finishing behind him in the race every time thus far, always with a slower fastest race lap. Sometimes by notably big margins. Another driver in another team, this would be pretty damning stuff. It would be wonderful if he could turn it around, but right now it's looking like another poor decision by Williams....
I'm not going to reply here as this has been done to death on the Williams thread. Well, I say done to death - it's still ongoing actually!Except the story goes awry at the last sentence: 5 races in, Kubica has been roundly beaten by his rookie teammate, being outqualified and finishing behind him in the race every time thus far, always with a slower fastest race lap. Sometimes by notably big margins. Another driver in another team, this would be pretty damning stuff. It would be wonderful if he could turn it around, but right now it's looking like another poor decision by Williams....
I'd head over to that thread if you want all the opinions..
rallycross said:
Open your eyes you dummy. Its all about the car.
George was given a good run in testing in the 2019 Mercedes and guess what ? He was fastest in that test. Based on their lap times in their soap box Williams then If RK had been given a good run in that 2019 Mercedes he would most likely have been fastest in that test as well.
Its all about the car, as it always has been for the last 30 years in F1.
The Williams drivers are driving around the back of the grid in a car that's almost as bad as those s
t box Hispania's that turned up and could not even complete practice at round 1. It will not make any difference who is driving - its going to be last all year long.
Nobody is arguing the car is slow, and lets face it, it's not going to jump forward 4 spots on the grid let alone 10. But job numero uno is to beat your teammate, which is what the OP refers to....George was given a good run in testing in the 2019 Mercedes and guess what ? He was fastest in that test. Based on their lap times in their soap box Williams then If RK had been given a good run in that 2019 Mercedes he would most likely have been fastest in that test as well.
Its all about the car, as it always has been for the last 30 years in F1.
The Williams drivers are driving around the back of the grid in a car that's almost as bad as those s
t box Hispania's that turned up and could not even complete practice at round 1. It will not make any difference who is driving - its going to be last all year long.TheDeuce said:
Yes, the disabled and decade out of date/practice driver is indeed fractionally slower than the new, race bred boy. Who could have guessed? It's all totally irrelevant though. RK got the sponsorship to buy that seat and he wanted it, largely for personal reasons. He was robbed of an F1 career back in the day, now he has managed to return - it's a personal win for him. It's also a PR win for Williams. I'm sure that he's intelligent enough himself to understand as much.
It's a nice story, sure. But should someone get a seat ahead of young up & coming drivers on the basis of nostalgia despite being substantially slower than their rookie teammate? I thought F1 was in the cut throat business of fastest first (if you've got the wallet - I'll be plenty others did as well as RK).Gassing Station | Formula 1 | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff