So he out qualified Kimi in 10 out of 19 races, which means Kimi out qualified him in the other 9... So the difference is .... (scribble, scribble, scratch, carry the one... darn, math is hard...) One!! One race. He gets the qualifying nod over Kimi by one.
The way you phrased it I thought you meant he only out qualified Kimi in 1 race...the % is still greater than 50% which is pretty respectable.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Nothing against RoGro personally, but (1) he drives a Renault engine and (2) he wiped out Fred and most likely kept him from taking WDC. Both of these are unforgivable. Hopefully next year it will be somebody else's turn to get speared by the shampoo car with the yellow camera pod.
So he beat Kimi in qualifying...pretty impressive if you ask me although it's clear Kimi has lost some speed.
So put a rookie in and reset the clock ? Grosjean is fast. Perhaps he has built some wisdom. You can teach a fast driver to be wise. You cant teach a wise driver to be fast.
He was interviewed on one french radio this morning, heard the interview while shaving... He was introspecting (english correct?) a lot, which I'm not sure is a good thing (he should take example on his team-mate...). Basically he said that he thought his accidents were caused by a burning wish to win its first race in this season because he knew he had the car to win; and that after Spa he was over-thinking his situation too much, and that was restricting the fluency and natural side of its driving. The weird thing is that short inteview left me with the impression that his dilemna is not solved at all and that he thinks about the whole thing too much, and is still very unsettled... Time will tell...
He does have his moments (brilliant commentary btw) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IN-lIf_62I[/ame]
Mais bien sur. Sounds like a driver who still hasn't figured out how to win in F1. This might all change with his first win. Somebody should tell him that races aren't won in the first few laps but by consistently going faster than anybody else over the duration of a race. It's not a sprint, it is called Grand prix for a reason.
Agreed, of course, Andreas; but somehow, I had mixed feelings listening to his interview: I didn't feel that he was "full of confidence" that he will be able to put his career back on track...
Some drivers have judgment while others don’t regardless of raw speed. By the time a driver enters F1 he has been competing professionally for many years since childhood. Romain has plenty of experience and still needs to focus, over thinks and crashes. Others drivers, top performers, got it right the first time around even at young age. It may be that we have in Romain a de Cesaris in the making.
That's less true these days. Drivers may have accrued a lot of lap time but that doesn't assure maturity.
Such cynicism! In F1? I believe however they were already a sponsor - I don't think he bought them to the party. Cheers, Ian
I would not be so sure. It isn't just lap time but competition, drivers that show maturity early on have a clear advantage. They mature quite a bit along the way in lower formulae. Several cases come to mind.
Total likely wanted a French driver. The interesting thing is how long it took Lotus to confirm Grosjean. Too bad for Kamui...
