[jdm61]

Can't say who is the greatest of all time, but if we did a top ten in no specific order, Schumacher, Senna and Prost would be in mine automatically, as would Stewart, Andretti, Moss and Nuvolari. We will never know how good Niki Lauda could have been because even though he was still winning after the accident at the Ring, he was not quite the same and also had to lay out for a good long time. Similar argument for Mark Donahue. He won everywhere he went. It would have been very interesting if he had been able to compete in F1. He is kinda the motorsports equivelant of Jimi Hendrix or Duane Allman....we have no way of knowing just how much he would have accomplished, bit we are sure that it would have been quite a spectacle to watch. I would also consider Jackie Ickx, Rosemeyer, Petty, Foyt and at least one of the recent Audi pilots (maybe Christensen)for an extended list. The problem you have nowadays is that a goodly number of very talented chaps will never get an F1 ride simply because they can't fit into the cars....lol. Most promising guy for a long tenure at the top is Alonso. Schumacher was singing his praises a few years back when he was still driving low rent equipment. Youngsters like Marco Andretti will also bear watching. It is tough to be an all around driver today because the schedules and the business side of any of the major racing series are so demanding.......all of the team owners and sponsors probably have nightmares about incidents like Dale Jr. almost burning up in that Vette in a race that was, from the Nascar perspective, fairly low rent.......Junior doing a favor for Chevy and having a bit of fun on the side. And we haven't even mentioned the motorcycle greats. If he sticks with MotoGP or if he eventually hass success on four wheels, 10 years from now, we may be making a very legitimate argument that Valentino Rossi is the greatest racer of all time.