We shall have to disagree on this one.
"The Daddy" does not merely have a No.1 on his car. The No.1 driver is the driver who most other drivers fear. "The Daddy" is the driver that most other drivers expect to be the one to beat (provided he has a decent car).
So Sutil is "The Daddy" then, or Vettel, Hamilton takes himself out rather than others.
Its literally impossible to tell who the best driver is unless we have a season where everyone gets given an identical car to race in, even then, you'd want to split 16 races into 4 with a car thats uber in corners, 4 with an uber straight speed card, 4 with a slidy pain in the butt to control car, and 4 with an engine you have to be incredibly gentle with to finish the race.
Vettel won the title, but was far and away in the best car, people say he's got the ability to put in a blistering lap no one else can, but is that true, really? We know he can put in a lap to beat Webber, but would Hamilton/Alonso in that car have comftably beaten both in every qualifying in the season, we don't know.
For me it seemed clear that the Red Bull car was leagues ahead of the other cars, and their leads were consistantly dropped, and wasted by safety cars, but you also have to take in account Hamilton/Alonso were often driving flat out on the edge and losing time, while the Red Bulls after it was clear they had the pace often seemed to be cruising and then had a little willy waving contest for fastest lap in the final few laps at a pace clearly available to them all race. Had they gone all out like others behind them, and safety cars weren't routinely wiping out 15-30 second leads, they would have finished probably a few races having lapped pretty much everyone.
Which car was better out of McClaren/Ferrari, who knows, I personally think Hamiltons driving closed the gap between the cars and that he was the best driver of the year by a country mile. I think Alonso got more out of the car than pretty much any other driver would have, and Massa consistantly underperformed in the car, and no one but Hamilton would have done as well in the McClaren and that Button was basically bang on exactly average and that a dozen drivers could have gotten almost identical boring performance out of the car.
Alonso/Hamilton were VERY close this year, but again, its literally impossible to say who was better, hell even in the same car often most weekends one tries a new bit of kit and the other driver wouldn't, let alone in two separate cars. Vettel, the car was too good, too comftable, Vettel could have been better than ALonso/Hamilton in the same cars, or much worse, the RB was SOOO far ahead its really impossible to know just how good or badly he and Webber did.
I didn't like the whole being given the support of McLaren for such a long time idea and walking into a top car made by a top team, compared to Alonso, Hill, Kimi etc. They all served apprenticeships at lower, poorer teams and had to work hard to get into a car to win the title. What does Lewis do? Ends his first season 2nd, 1 point from the title.
. I have to disagree though, there is a very good reason LH got the sponsorship, because he was rapid. He's not going to turn down that offer, is he? Not his fault somebody decided to invest money in him, it's a daft reason not to like him. He would never have gotten that opportunity if he wasn't good enough.
