03-18-2008, 11:51 AM
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Drives a GT1300Junior ;)
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Delft, Holland - Europe.
Posts: 74
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Originally Posted by 1,6 HF
Kimi won the championship last year because Hamilton screwed up at both of the last two races. That was certainly lucky for Kimi--he couldn't have won it otherwise. But nobody wins the world championship just by being in the right place at the right time. Last year Kimi ran well enough all season to put himself in the position to capitalize on Hamilton's mistakes--that wasn't just luck.
This year, as others have said, it's a little early to come to any conclusions--except the conclusion that Hamilton seems to be the real deal.
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Kimi arguably has the team with the best grasp on tactics, on how to read a race and (had) a very reliable cohesive and fast car - that is what won him the 2007 season and that is what the real heir to that title certainly lacked, in particular a team with a good grasp on race craft.
What Kimi lacks and has so far shown no sign of gaining is the wherewithall to be one of the great racing drivers.
He makes too many mistakes under pressure, he doesn't seem to be able to pull the kind of moves on opponents (gutsy, well timed and well executed feats of car control) that you would expect a world champion to be able to pull) It always looks like he's driving on the mirrors, ragged, gittery... Plus, look at the interaction with the team, another aspect of a world champion driver - you can see its the team carrying him, not the other way around - when you look at how Massa developed the 2007 car, how he used Schumacher as a mentor, how he saught to galvanise his talent with the resources around him, I saw more in Massa as a potential world champion for crying out load than I've seen in Kimi so far - and there is a horrific statement 
So even at race 1... Kimi looks just the same as before, the same steady eddie in a really fast car, with a good team that lives race craft and brinksmanship.. but absolutely not a brilliant tallent.
Not an Alonso, Not a Hamilton and certainly no Schumacher. He lacks the precision, the balls and natural talent to be truely great.
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