ENGINE TUNER wrote: ↑01 Sep 2020, 13:42
e30ernest wrote: ↑01 Sep 2020, 09:59
ENGINE TUNER wrote: ↑01 Sep 2020, 06:50
Senna outqualified Prost by over 1.4s IN MONACO... and outqualled him by over .5s OVER THE ENTIRE 88 SEASON AVERAGE. ROS was outqualled by far more than .5s on many occasions, and fluffed many starts. Get some perspective
I think Rosberg was better on the races itself than Bottas ever was though. Bottas seems to get stuck on whatever place he was at after the first 5 laps of a race. Rosberg on the other hand would still be able to fight back up to the front. The lack of tenacity on Bottas' part is holding him back IMO.
Think what you want, but you are wrong. ROS made so many mistakes in races, especially under pressure, that he started to just crash into HAM rather than just give up the position. BOT is making less mistakes in races than ROS did. The only people BOT isn't passing is HAM and VER.
Well, he hasn't passed Vettel in the standings until last year though. I posted a list of WDC 2nd place finishers over the Merc era in another thread:
2019 - Bottas (Merc) 87 points behind Ham, 48 ahead Vers
2018 - Vettel (Ferrari) 88 points behind Ham, 69 ahead Rai
2017 - Vettel (Ferrari) 46 behind Ham, 12 ahead Bot
2016 - Ham (Merc) so I guess this counts as a Merc win. Ham 5 points behind Ros, 124 ahead of Ric
2015 - Rosberg (Merc) 59 behind Ham, 44 ahead of Vet
2014 - Rosberg (Merc) 67 behind Ham, 79 ahead of Ric
Kinda shows how good Rosberg is against Bottas IMO. 2014-2016 were basically Mercedes 1-2 on the WDC. Bottas only got 2nd through on 2019. Maybe the competition was closer the past 3 seasons, but Bottas being just 3rd on 2017, and 5th in 2018 just doesn't look that good.
The only advantage I can see with the Mercs sticking to Bottas is that he's just good enough to score enough points to give the team the WCC, but nowhere good enough to challenge Hamilton.
The closest Bottas got to Hamilton was in 2017 where he was 58 points behind. Rosberg's worst was 67 points behind Hamilton while Bottas' was 161 points behind in 2018.
2013 was the year Hamilton and Rosberg first went head to head and the only year they were together in a car that wasn't the top of the field. Hamilton took 4th and Rosberg 6th just 18 points behind.