snoop1050 wrote:
the car has been absolutely terrible for nico and michael. if nico had good car he would be contender for championship.
You could say the same about almost any driver on the grid.
The best drivers dont need the best car to shine atleast some of the time and to me nico has barely glowed never mind illuminated the team.
mark my words he is another trulli/fisichella/heiki
no...
look at massa.
well mercedes atm is in no mans land... the car is not good compared to top 4 teams. when team were scoring just 1 points, nico hauled awful lot of points for team with 1st in china and 2nd in monaco, 5th in bahrain. he was one of the top scorer when car was competitive enough.
best drivers may not need best car but they still need competitive car enough to reach other top opponents. thats the case for ferrari, or was last year, but not for mercedes.
also, nico in first year at mercedes did awesome job with ridiculously poor car, and nearly leveling with massa who had more decent ferrari.
same can be said in second year.
we will see, time will tell whether he will be in the league of vettel alonso hamilton button webber, or he will be like the next trulii.
thing is he has convinced haug, brawn and they highly talk of him, also does montezemolo, franz tost once said if he were to choose top drivers, he said he choose alonso, vettel hamilton, and he named rosberg.
thats good enough for me, to know he is a damn good driver out there and he deserves a compettive car if not best car to challenge top teams.
mercedes like i said atm is in no mans land... that has been the case for past 3 years now, the car is incapable of reaching top teams yet rosberg has hauled very decent points for team, i am absolutely convinced by that.
guys like trulli, hetifield could never do what nico did, it would have been also difficult for guys like vettel alonso if they weere in place of rosberg.
