F1 Drivers Of 2010: Some Winners And Losers

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Published: October 17, 2010

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Although the 2010 F1 season is not quite over, it is possible to see which drivers have had a good year, and which have not. My perspective here is to consider which drivers would be good choices for an F1 team in 2011, ignoring commercial issues and looking solely at their race performance in 2010.

Those who have enhanced their reputations I class as winners; those whose stock has fallen become losers. All in my opinion, of course, and you may not agree.

Nico Rosberg: The invisible man of the sport has been a big winner.

He started the season with a solid reputation, and has enhanced that by his totally professional drives for Mercedes. In 2010 he has done all that could be done with a car lacking competitiveness, unobtrusively, without fuss, drama, or foolish incidents.

I believe that any team would welcome Rosberg as a driver.

Michael Schumacher: A loser of epic, Wagnerian proportions.

Watching Schumacher in 2010 has been like seeing an elderly marathon runner approach the finishing tape, grey-faced, eyes bulging, and staggering. One knows that the boundary between heroism and folly has been crossed, and that dignity has been sacrificed in the vain pursuit of glory.

To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. That F1 time has gone for Michael Schumacher, and I cannot believe that any team would now want him in 2011 for his driving skills.

Jensen Button: A winner because he has not been crushed by Lewis Hamilton, as was widely predicted, but has put in a rock-steady performance as a reliable points-gatherer.

Nobody has ever accused Button of out-driving a car, or of being Mister Exciting on the track. But he never wastes whatever potential his car has, never makes a stupid decision on tyres or tactics, and has a seemingly infallible instinct for which overtakes are sensible and which are too risky.

Button would be a...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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