Kazuki Nakajima

What's Nakajima doing next year? Is he going to join one of the new teams or is he doing another thing?

Edited by robracer, 21 November 2009 - 11:06.

People shouldn't be so harsh on Nakajima. He didn't perform that bad at all. He is far better than most Japanese drivers we saw in F1 in the '90s including his father.

How many points did he get compared with Rosberg ?

Rosberg is not a bad driver but jeez he should have got some points

But Rosberg is proberly a future multy WDC.

Exactly. The only reason Rosberg gained so much praise this year is his teammate. Montoya, Ralf, Heidfeld or Webber would have scored multiple podiums this year.

Driving a taxi in Tokyo hopefully, dire F1 driver

But Rosberg is proberly a future multy WDC.

Which is why Williams put up a massive fight to try and retain his services, oh hold on...

Edited by robracer, 21 November 2009 - 11:22.

What's Nakajima doing next year? Is he going to join one of the new teams or is he doing another thing?

Rosbergs contract ended this year and he wants to move to a team that can win races. Rosberg would not have resigned with Williams because he didn't want to stay.

Reading between the lines though you kinda got the impression that Williams weren't particularly bothered if he went anyway. I remember reading reports that his engineers were growing ever more frustrated throughout the season as he wasn't ever consistent enough lap-after-lap.

Anyway, back to Nakajima. He was probably two-tenths away from being an F1 driver. I reckon he'll participate in FIA GT or similar next season.

Edited by robracer, 21 November 2009 - 11:35.

BS. He was always up with Rosberg in qualifying and beat him a fair few times. He's a bloody quick driver. For you to call him 'dire' is just complete s%&*.

You need evidence to back this up.

People shouldn't be so harsh on Nakajima. He didn't perform that bad at all. He is far better than most Japanese drivers we saw in F1 in the '90s including his father.

BS. He was always up with Rosberg in qualifying and beat him a fair few times. He's a bloody quick driver. For you to call him 'dire' is just complete s%&*.

Sorry, confusion betwixt me being in a court of law and having an opinion on a forum.

Nakajima is not so bad of course.

Good racer

Close to many points


Just a bit slower in qually and too many processional races in the season, not many races for racers to charge to good points results.


Good test driver for a new team

What's Nakajima doing next year? Is he going to join one of the new teams or is he doing another thing?

He will do same thing as Heikki, probably fishing somewhere or playing banjo.

Edited by robracer, 21 November 2009 - 14:30.

As Rosberg is not special at all and scored 34 points while Nakajima none, you expect Naka to be in 2010 at his father home again

Rosberg is future WDC. Nakajima is a good driver who will drive for Lotus next year.

Rosberg is overated

Good solid driver but I would compare him with DC/Trulli/Webber/Barrichello sort of driver certainly not an Alonso, Schumi, Hamilton, Kimi

Rosberg is overated

Good solid driver but I would compare him with DC/Trulli/Webber/Barrichello sort of driver certainly not an Alonso, Schumi, Hamilton, Kimi

Rosberg is good but inconsistent, Nakajima was consistently significantly slower than Rosberg the last two seasons, and in 2009 never qualified in the top 10 and didnt score a single point.

Edited by Francesc, 21 November 2009 - 22:35.

BS. He was always up with Rosberg in qualifying and beat him a fair few times. He's a bloody quick driver.

Edited by William Hunt, 22 November 2009 - 00:49.

Absolutely; Nakajima is so underrated. He's had so much bad luck this year but he did score a decent amount of points in 2008 and if you check his qualifying performances then you'll see that he's usually around place 11-12, that's pretty good and far better than some other drivers like Piquet or Grosjean for example.

And Rosberg is one of the best qualifiers on the grid with Trulli & Massa so beiing beaten by him is no shame.
Nakajima is not slower as for example Kobayashi yet Kobayashi gets all the hype. In the same car I think they would be very closely matched and I suspect Nakajima might be the faster one.

Williams did have a better car than Renault this year but still Nakajma's qualifying performances were strong. He just had the bad luck of having an extremely fast qualifying specialist like Rosberg next to him and he did beat him now and then (he beat Rosberg on a regular basis in 2008 but everybody seems to have forgotten that).

Some evidence?

http://en.wikipedia....nd_Prix_results

scroll down to 2008, at least 6 races where Nakajima was better than Rosberg in the race. Not regular but still not bad.

At races where Rosberg had a grid penalty, made stupid mistakes like at Silverstone or was screwed by the wrong strategy like Monza or China