Who would you hire? And would you prioritize a single star driver or like to have a super team with two drivers that could take money from each other but bring media exposure and a better chance of WCC. Or is WDC so important that you'd put all your eggs in one basket (like Ferrari did with Schumacher). Rule 1 is that the owner expects you to win a championship and it's likely that your car is not better than your poorer opponents, so you really need a special driver to achieve something here (hence putting aside emotion). This is about your job as team principal not about who crashed into who in Japan some year or something...
I reckon this poll is a bit more original, has some more flair and will last longer than the third "who is your favourite driver" poll inside a month. Please no fanboyism now, this is intended as a poll and NOT as a "who did what at McLaren in 2007-thread". There's already one for that.
My choice would be Alonso together with Räikkönen. Both have won championships and Kimi wouldn't try and be political and just focus on his job on track. They also have relatively similar patterns in terms of being better races than qualifiers which is more important than previously. For raw Saturday pace Vettel and Hamilton would be ideal, but there's a huge risk for a personality clash with those two younger guys with a fair bit of temperament in them. In general I'd like to have drivers that are above 30 because of their experience and cool heads in race situations, especially Alonso and Kimi, who are both very good at bringing cars home. As an extra bonus, Alonso is super-consistent while Kimi seems much better in that aspect now than when he was at Ferrari.
The second poll on ideal team pairing is selected by myself on which drivers that are widely regarded as the top drivers. This is a strategical decision just as much as the first driver since they are supposed to be able to work together.
The ultimate question is not whoever is your favourite driver, just who would you hire. I'm not picking Alonso and Räikkönen because they're Ferrari stars of past and present, rather because I think they'd be a workable team-mate combination and still be freaky fast on Sundays.
This is definitely the most complicated and most thought-out thread I've started so I hope I don't get slagged off
Be friendly and nice to each other now
Edited by jeze, 10 September 2012 - 13:49.