Formula One Driver Rankings for the 2010 Season: The Bottom Five

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Published: January 4, 2011

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Earlier I looked at the best drivers from the 2010 Formula 1 season. Now its time for the other end of the field.

As before when I looked at the best drivers over the year I used these questions to help me order them.

How well they did?

How well they did compared to expectations?

How many mistakes they made?

Did they maximise what they had?

The Lucky man award goes to Michael Schumacher who would be No. 6. He was poor over the season but his slight up turn in form near the end of the season just managed to keep him out of the main five.

Those who expected him to return and produce the same sort of form as in 2000 to 2004 were dreaming and I firmly expected him to struggle in the new style of cars. His behaviour at Hungary was in my view the lowest moment of his career and he cannot have any defence for his actions there.

Strange, one Mercedes man just misses out being on the best list and the other just avoids being on the worst.

Number 5 is awarded to Vitaly Petrov

The truth is I hope Vitaly provided a lot of money for the team as he cost the team enough in broken bodywork. He did show improvement but he was very poor over the season. He was comprehensively outclassed by his team mate, Kubica and the gap between them at the end of the season was the largest between team mates, 109 points.

There was two excellent drives of note at Hungary and Abu Dhabi with Abu Dhabi in particular seeing a fantastically measured drive. Keeping Fernando Alonso behind him for as long as he did was truly a superb piece of driving. Turkey he drove well but a late incident with Alonso (theme growing here) meant he had to pit for new tyres.

Despite those flashes of excellence, he also showed flashes of real stupidity. At Spa checking to see how wet the curbs were and promptly spinning out of qualifying, wasn't re...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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