This board is getting more and more about how bad Vettel is, how everyone is totally in love with Ricciardo because he's beating Vettel. Sometimes, I'm left wondering whether all this love for DR is because of his amazing talent or just because he's beating SV?
For all the people who say DR is pasting SV, are the same people that will debate for 50+ pages about how JB didn't actually beat Hamilton in 2011 or Trulli didn't have the measure of Alonso in their time together. It's basically a précis that 'Vettel fluked into his four titles and was just lucky, while my favourite driver can only be beaten due to team sabotage/misfortune.'
In my opinion?
I think DR has been better than SV. He's beaten him fair and square. I'm not going to argue about how many reliability gremlins x or y has had because it's obvious that on speed DR has SV. I like SV more, but accepting this doesn't make SV any lesser of a driver, or me any lesser a fan. Like every other sport, sportsmen/women have ups and downs in form. SV has not been at his best this year and who knows? DR might be a WDC very soon. I certainly believe so. It's very convenient to sit on a laptop and call a multi F1 champion a no good, over rated lucky chump. Reality is, no end of denial can take away those championships from him and only someone very naive and dare I say dumb would call a four time champion rubbish. If so is the case, the sport is rubbish and dumb and the concerned should take to another sport.
How good is Ricciardo?
I'd say - Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso, Raikkonen and Button are top of the tree with Ricciardo sixth.
Edited by Schuttelberg, 03 November 2014 - 05:41.