Is Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg or Nico Hulkenberg Germany’s Top F1 Driver?

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Published: July 15, 2014

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German sport is in a good place right now.

Only days after the country became football world champions, the Hockenheim circuit will this weekend host the German Grand Prix, where four drivers—Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, Nico Hulkenberg and Adrian Sutil—will participate in their home race.

Not only is Germany the most represented nation on this year's Formula One grid, it is currently the most successful: Vettel has won the world championship for the last four years, while Rosberg—the current leader of the drivers' standings—has a tremendous chance of keeping the flag flying high in 2014.

Hulkenberg, meanwhile, is widely considered a world champion in waiting.



The status of world champion, though, only tells half the story in Formula One.

The driver who becomes world champion is not necessarily the best driver on the grid. He could merely be the driver who scores more points than his rivals in a given season due to factors such as luck or being handed a dominant car by his team.

An average driver in a strong car will be in with a shot of a crown, while a strong driver in an average car will be a distant onlooker.

Just ask Fernando Alonso.

So who is the best driver with a German passport in Formula One? Well, that depends on what exactly you're looking for.

In terms of one-lap pace, for instance, it is difficult to look beyond Vettel.

With 45 pole positions to his name at the age of just 27, the Red Bull driver will almost certainly break Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 68 in the coming years.




And although some will consider the Adrian Newey-designed cars as the reason behind Vettel's astonishing success rate, the Heppenheim-born driver himself made qualifying sessions an irrelevance between 2010 and 2014, with then-teammate Mark Webber often nowhere to be seen.
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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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