Originally posted by Gedanken:
You didn't know they've been calling him Half Schumacher for years?
For crying out loud, when he switched to Toyota this year, he
bingled the company car because, unlike the road cars that BMW
supplied, it didn't have a reverse proximity sensor. 
The sad truth, loathe as I am to admit it, is that the only two
drivers on the grid who even vaguely resemble the real racers of
old are Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso. They're going on
about how MS fights (at least until last year) his way from the
back of the grid, but in light of performances such as Senna's at
Suzuka in both 1988 and 1989, MS' driving was expected of a racing
driver ten years ago. When Prost, Mansell, Senna and Piquet were on
the grid, anything less than MS' standard of driving would ensure
that the driver be relegated to the also-ran book.
These days, when a rookie who's just stepped out of a Kart can take
the car within 2 seconds of the polesitter, there are hardly any
real balls-to-the-wall racers to speak of. MS is the last of the
old guard - actually, he's the last of those who raced against the
old guard - and the only other one with the correctly aggressive
attitude to real racing (distinction being made here between racing
and just driving) is Alonso.
Don't get me wrong - Raikonnen's a good driver, but he's a
[b]driver, not a racer - when the chips are down you can
always count on him to play the percentages and take the safest, if
not most profitable, action. Basically, he's boring. If he was more
aggressive, you'd see more of a gap between him and
Montoya.[/b]
i disagree. kimi is a racer. The way he opted to push that car
at nurburgring was defo a racer's heart t work. if he wanted to
play the percentage game, he would have opted to pit, new rules be
damned. 8 points are better than 0. No I think Kimi pushes as hard
as alonso n MS. Alonso tends to be over aggressive n loses his cool
sometimes. Just because a driver is exciting doesn't mean he's the
best racer.
