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Originally posted by songhoh
Next year, without MS, who will all these kids say they beat? Alonso? No. Webber? NO. This sport is going down. Look at the heavyweight Boxing Division after Tyson.
Look at World Superbike racing after Fogerty.
All Sports need a Champion to be competative.
F1 is going to find next year very difficult without MS. I will miss him in this sport. He's the best I've ever seen.
And ask yourself this:
Would you like to race with him?
Would you like to race against him?
Would you want him on your team?
Would you like a driving lesson from him?
Don't Hate.
At least he's not in NASCAR.
JLC
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Well, good post until the NASCAR part. What does that have to do with it? Who knows, maybe he'll come over to kick JPM's butt, LOL. But, I'm really not interested in developing a dialog around that theme.
What I would point out is a blog on the
Autoweek website last week that included an interview with MS. Lot of insight there. The point made by the author was that MS is the last of the old school. I agree except I'm old enough to know another "old school," the last of which would be hard to finger. There is overlap, to be sure, and MS happened in his time, a very advantageous time. Like Todd said, there's nothing you can do about his incredible robotic skill, and neither can you about his time in history.
Do we need to compare MS with people he never raced with in equipment he's never driven? Each was in his own time to do with the competition what he could do. One of my favorites was Jean Alesi, a driver whose time was not as fortunate. There are many other soldiers of F1 I admire, mostly the guys who were in the game for a solid decade, or more, like MS, and drove hundreds of races. It's a whimsical sport with money buying everything and anything you see.
Here's the link to the piece:
http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060706/BLOG05/60706009
Scroll down to just past the "Cars" image to see the statement I refer to.