Rate the following drivers from best to worst

Best to worst at what? Because if it's Photoshop then it's going to have to be Mark Plourde first and everyone else way down.

Edited by Marklar, 14 September 2020 - 19:34.

Edited by noikeee, 14 September 2020 - 19:33.

"the shorter the better"

AJ Foyt
Ted Horn
Chad Little
Alain Prost
Ferenc Szisz
Randy Lanier
Bas Leinders
Mark Plourde
Tazio Nuvolari
Marco Apicella
Emilio De Villota
Stefano Modena
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Gustavo Yacaman
Satoshi Motoyama
Francesco Dracone

Show us your sums.  

"the shorter the better"

AJ Foyt
Ted Horn
Chad Little
Alain Prost
Ferenc Szisz
Randy Lanier
Bas Leinders
Mark Plourde
Tazio Nuvolari
Marco Apicella
Emilio De Villota
Stefano Modena
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Gustavo Yacaman
Satoshi Motoyama
Francesco Dracone

You mean Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr. and Eylard Theodore Von Horn?

You missed the legendary Ernesto Viso

You mean Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr. and Eylard Theodore Von Horn?

We can nitpick anything!

My incredibly strong mathematical model comes to the folloing conclusion.

1. Vitantonio Liuzzi

2. Ferenc Szisz

3. Francesco DRACONE

=4. Satoshi Motoyama

=4. Tazio Nuvolari

=4. Gustavo Yacaman

=7. Marco Apicella

=7. Emilio de Villota

9. Mark Plourde

=10. Stefano Modena

=10. A.J. Foyt

12. Chad Little

13. Randy Lanier

14. Bas Leinders

15. Alain Prost

16. Ted Horn

We all know, in our heart of hearts, who is the best, though.

You missed the legendary Ernesto Viso

The thing I remember most about Viso was his crash in GP2 at Magny Cours.  A very lucky escape!

I must be missing some in-joke - what is going-on in this thread?  Can I nominate Mornington Crescent?

I must be missing some in-joke - what is going-on in this thread? Can I nominate Mornington Crescent?

Bingo. Or should I say, "Mornington Crescent".

What do I win?

Edited by cpbell, 14 September 2020 - 22:04.

Please use a mathematical model so that we can measure for certain and abandon the uncertainty that makes modern life so stressful.

Satoshi Motoyama
Ferenc Szisz
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Ted Horn
Stefano Modena
AJ Foyt
Francesco Dracone
Alain Prost
Mark Plourde
Chad Little
Marco Apicella
Emilio De Villota
Randy Lanier
Bas Leinders
Tazio Nuvolari
Gustavo Yacaman

Should we use the > < Paradigm?

The thing I remember most about Viso was his crash in GP2 at Magny Cours. A very lucky escape!

Emilio De Villota has a noble surname, therefore he must be better than the likes of Nuvolari and Prost.

OP, I ask this entirely respectfully: what the hell were you drinking/smoking when you came up with this?

OP, I ask this entirely respectfully: what the hell were you drinking/smoking when you came up with this?

This thread will be a lot better if we never get an answer to that.

I don't believe the list can be complete without the addition of Mahaveer Raghunathan

The omission of said Lord makes me believe that OP is, in fact, Lord Mahaveer himself.

Hello there Mister Mahaveer Sir!

I'm claiming this is mathematical

Marco Apicella
Francesco Dracone
AJ Foyt
Ted Horn
Randy Lanier
Bas Leinders
Chad Little
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Stefano Modena
Satoshi Motoyama
Tazio Nuvolari
Mark Plourde
Alain Prost
Ferenc Szisz
Emilio De Villota
Gustavo Yacaman

 

Edited by Rodaknee, 15 September 2020 - 09:45.

Here we go

 

AJ Foyt

Alain Prost

Bas Leinders

Chad Little

Emilio De Villota

Ferenc Szisz

Francesco Dracone

Gustavo Yacaman

Marco Apicella

Mark Plourde

Randy Lanier

Satoshi Motoyama

Stefano Modena

Tazio Nuvolari

Ted Horn

Vitantonio Liuzzi

I'm claiming this is mathematical

 

 

Marco Apicella
Francesco Dracone
AJ Foyt
Ted Horn
Randy Lanier
Bas Leinders
Chad Little
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Stefano Modena
Satoshi Motoyama
Tazio Nuvolari
Mark Plourde
Alain Prost
Ferenc Szisz
Emilio De Villota
Gustavo Yacaman

Nice sorting work there! I feel better already.

1. Mark Plourde

2. Milka Duno

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99. everyone else

OP, I ask this entirely respectfully: what the hell were you drinking/smoking when you came up with this?

And where can I git sum?

My only question is why are Prost and Foyt on here?

There's a HUGE gap to the rest down there in ignominy land

Jp

EDIT: AJ was better.

Edited by jonpollak, 15 September 2020 - 12:17.

 

 

My logic is infailable.

 

infailable?

This explains why Kevin Magnussen is your favorite driver.

To you he is...infallible.

Jp

Is there some connection between the drivers? becuase it just looks like random racing drivers plucked from history? Is this some kind of riddle? Can we have more clues? Whats the answer!

My only question is why are Prost and Foyt on here?

There's a HUGE gap to the rest down there in ignominy land

Jp

 

EDIT: AJ was better.

Are you overlooking the legendary Tazio Nuvolari?

infailable?

 

This explains why Kevin Magnussen is your favorite driver.

To you he is...infallible.

Jp

And Magnussen is not even on the list, who would have thunk it?

Edited by KWSN - DSM, 15 September 2020 - 16:44.

Is there some connection between the drivers? becuase it just looks like random racing drivers plucked from history? Is this some kind of riddle? Can we have more clues? Whats the answer!

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Edited by LucaP, 15 September 2020 - 17:32.

We are discussing a natural and human phenomenon and there is no absolute pecking order in nature.

And yet nobody would question it if you say Nuvolari and Prost were better than Mark Plourde.

Light hearted threads like these are always welcome.

We are discussing a natural and human phenomenon and there is no absolute pecking order in nature.

There is, that's why it is called pecking order.

Ahah relax.
I was just making fun at those uber-serious F1 threads were people try to rate drivers in a precise order using scientific or statistical methods, not realising those guys are often separated by milliseconds despite driving different cars, and ignoring that performances by humans are often influenced by your mental state, by the amount of hours you sleeep, by how you eat, by the health of your family, by the intestinal condition of your cat...and all these things are extremely volatile.
We are discussing a natural and human phenomenon and there is no absolute pecking order in nature.

No, no, no, no, no!!!1

That can not be the reason, you surely have a genuine and as of yet indisclosed (JP    ) reason for creating this thread.... and with the various lists already suggested you clearly hit a nerve.... One feel like posting a link in the Ross Brown thread.

Personally i think we need chaos theory with this one. Not just mathematics. Or am i making it complex then?

In a kart competition Liuzzi would be number 1 for sure.

No, no, no, no, no!!!1

That can not be the reason, you surely have a genuine and as of yet indisclosed (JP ) reason for creating this thread.... and with the various lists already suggested you clearly hit a nerve.... One feel like posting a link in the Ross Brown thread.

Yes actually there is something all those drivers have in common....

I know.

That not all of them raced in F1.

The winner here is clearly Prost. The man was able to score wins and titles with the arguably least aerodynamic and most bent nose cone ever. 

Marco Apicella  (8.38)

Francesco Dracone  (9.00)

Chad Little (9.40)

Bas Leinders (9.82)

Stefano Modena (10.15)

Emilio De Villota (10.87)

Randy Lanier (11.00)

Gustavo Yacaman (11.64)

Ted Horn (12.00)

Mark Plourde (12.18)

Alain Prost (12.50)

AJ Foyt (12.83)

Satoshi Motoyama (12.93)

Ferenc Szisz (13.64)

Tazio Nuvolari (14.08)

Vitantonio Liuzzi (14.50)

Edited by Frank Tuesday, 16 September 2020 - 16:55.

I miss DRACONE  

I am shocked Carlos Fandango is not in the list.