Who were the top 10 drivers of 2011?

Mr Men · 9 Dec 2011 at 09:40

http://www.totalf1.com/full_story/view/402363/Who_were_the_top_10_drivers_of_2011/

Good article, would not disagree too much with the list other than Nico being a bit too high.

In summary they give the list as:

1. Vettel
2. Alonso
3. Button
4. Rosberg
5. Hamilton
6. Sutil
7. Kobayashi
8. Di Resta
9. Webber
10. Schumacher

Mr Men · 9 Dec 2011 at 11:17

3rd best car meaning Ferrari were behind Red Bull and McLaren, which was pretty clear to most.

Mr Men · 9 Dec 2011 at 12:32

Skeeter has just copy and pasted the standings, which was not really the point but maybe he knew that

Mr Men · 9 Dec 2011 at 16:10

Skeeter said:
Dont really see the point in these comparison things that poop up every year.

However, for drivers who stood out throughout the year I would say Button, for just getting on with it, and Heikki, for being a thoroughly nice guy and showing glimpses of promise from the Lotus.

If you don't see the point then you don't need to post

thread is going fine with people who enjoy having an opinion

Mr Men · 10 Dec 2011 at 00:28

Is Heikki getting the Lotus ahead of where it should be not an achievement in your book then?

What makes you say this thread has nothing to do with achievements?

If you read the link in the OP you will see the whole essence of the thread is about what drivers have achieved this year.

Mr Men · 11 Dec 2011 at 14:36

If team bosses were like Skeeter no driver would ever move up into the top teams

must be hard to see F1 in such a black and white manner.

Mr Men · 11 Dec 2011 at 15:16

Skeeter said:
The WDC ranking is the only one used to award and rank drivers consistently. Every other ranking is susceptible to opinion and bias, and will always cause disagreements and arguments, but at the end of the day remain utterly pointless.

No it really is not, but if you find it pointless to have opinions then so be it, you don't need to post in a thread you find pointless

You have spent all season posting opinions, now you find them pointless? strange

Mr Men · 11 Dec 2011 at 15:58

Skeeter said:
Threads like this are just going to be not stop disagreements, or in this case, just and excuse for arknor and Mr Men to argue with everyone. There is absolutely nothing that can be said in this thread that someone else wont argue about. The only ranking completely devoid of personal bias is the WDC rankings, and they were dismissed within about 3 posts...

deary me, what are you on? I see no arguing in the slightest, it's only you that seems to have a problem dealing with this thread, stop trying to derail things as per usual, it's very tiresome.

Mr Men · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:06

Sebastian Vettel has added yet another accolade at the end of his remarkable 2011 campaign - by being voted as the best Formula 1 driver of the year in AUTOSPORT's exclusive team principals' top 10 rankings

In the now annual poll, Vettel emerged as a clear winner ahead of Jenson Button - with last year's winner Fernando Alonso dropping two places down to third.

The annual team principals' verdict is compiled by getting the top ten driver rankings of every boss, which are kept secret, and then converting their rankings into the F1 points' system (25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1).

The final scores are added up to discover which driver the team bosses overall believed had done the best job throughout the campaign.

Vettel is the first world champion since Lewis Hamilton in 2008 to earn the top place in the drivers' rankings.

Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner believed that it would have been wrong for any driver other than Vettel to have come out on top on the back of his dominant campaign.

"It would have been a surprise if any driver other than Sebastian would have been voted as the driver of the year, after the season he's had in 2011," Horner told AUTOSPORT.

"He won 11 races, finished second in five, third in one, had a fourth place and one DNF which is quite a remarkable run of results.

"On top of which, he scored a season record of 15 pole positions to secure his second consecutive world championship title. Therefore he fully deserves to have been recognised as the outstanding driver of 2011."

Paul di Resta was the leading rookie driver, earning 44 points to take seventh place, while Heikki Kovalainen's efforts for Team Lotus were rewarded with ninth place.

This year's voters were: Horner, Martin Whitmarsh, Stefano Domenicali, Ross Brawn, Eric Boullier, Frank Williams, Vijay Mallya, Peter Sauber, Tony Fernandes, Colin Kolles and John Booth. Scuderia Toro Rosso declined to take part.

AUTOSPORT TEAM PRINCIPALS' TOP TEN - 2011 RESULTS

1. Vettel 241 / UP 1
2. Button 200 / UP 4
3. Alonso 188 / DOWN 2
4. Hamilton 122 / DOWN 1
5. Rosberg 90 / UP 2
6. Webber 70 / DOWN 2
7. Di Resta 44 / NEW ENTRY
8. Sutil 38 / RE-ENTRY FROM 2009
9. Kovalainen 26 / RE-ENTRY FROM 2008
10. Schumacher 23 / NEW ENTRY