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Originally Posted by cjwb1984
IMO, I think a lot of people get into the here and now moment, and throw around the word great too often. I think Vettel is on his way to greatness. He's a very good driver, along the likes of Alonso. The thing that's very difficult to assess with Vettel is just how superior the Red Bull cars are compared to the field, McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus, etc...no team has consistently challenge those cars over the past couple of years.
And I don't think Webber is a good driver, he's just decent. Definitely not a situation where you can fairly assess, like a Senna and Prost comparison. Two great drivers in their own rights.
Now what's going to be fun, is how Alonso and Kimi can coexist next year. Give those two the same car and watch them go. That's going be so much fun. I can't wait.
A step down from those two are Kimi, and Lewis Hamilton. I think those 4 are the top drivers currently in F1. I think Webber, Rosberg and Button are just decent drivers.
The influx of very talented drivers going to F1 is just very scarce due to issues, political and what not. Not just many like it used to be when I was watching in the 90s and way before that.
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Don't disagree that when determining who is great can be difficult given the disparity in equipment. How you define your scale of great, good, decent is up to you but in judging Webber you need to give due consideration to how the evolution of the sport has also impacted his ability to 'perform' at a top level. So take the tyre changes given its the most obvious one, the fact he cannot manage his tyres as well as Vettel, does that make him a not as good driver, perhaps but on the other hand it may just comes down to how you define what is good.
I think they are all good drivers with some better than others but don't believe its a scale of 1 to 10 where there are drivers that are 10 and drivers that are 1. F1 is based around the advancement of technology and in more recent times the arguable introduction of DRS and tyre degradation to name a couple in order to make the sport more 'exciting'/unpredictable has in some form dilluted it.