djos wrote:I know he's not a WDC but i'd add Mark Webber to that list, he has over his career consistently found performance in that cars that his team mates couldnt find, this was especially noticeable in his days at Jaguar were he frequently put that car way further up that grid than it deserved to be and he did the same at Williams.
We Aussies hear regular reports in our qually & pre-race telecasts that Vettel has ended up using Mark Webbers car setups because he wasn't happy with his own and has then gone on to grab pole and win etc - imo Monaco this year was proof that Vettel has a lot to learn about car setup as his was dismal in qualifying and we've seen him out qualified by Mark in all bar one race this year because he's been reportedly unhappy with his car.
It seems Mark can drive an imperfect car to it's limits and Seb cant, same goes for Alonso vs Massa.
Alonso vs Massa I would sort of just about agree. Between Webber and Vettel, form has fluctuated and seesawed too much between the two to really draw any ultimate conclusions. Both are obviously very good, fast qualifiers. But there have been times when one has been comprehensively dominated by the other, and vice versa. Some of it we can put down to circuit. For example Seb seems to always have the legs on Mark in Suzuka, Mark always seems to have the legs on Seb in the Nurburgring. But sometimes they fluctuate on form even on the same circuit, such as Brazil 2009, 2011, Webber beat Vettel, while in 2010 it was the other way around.
I think picking a single driver who you know will be on the balls-to-the-wall limit, you'll have to pick one who consistently beats his teammate, and any dip below the teammate in result is an aberration, really. But to be honest I'm not sure such a driver exists nowadays (Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel probably come close, but they're not *there* if you know what I mean) or even if they ever did. Drivers are humans, and humans (almost as a rule) are inconsistent anyways.
