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    best driver ever?

    just had a thought watching a programme, and downloading some old racing footage. and i want know who was the best racing driver ever in your opinion
    imho best driver ever(some damn good footage
    aryton senna
    Click here to see Video

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    as voted by most top racing drivers , the most complete driver and the one that raised the bar to a whole new level is shumi . i do admire senna , he was after all the boy hood hero to millions , also derek bell for what he acheived in sports car racing and for being a genuinlly nice bloke , or hans stuck for all his efforts in touring cars , then the near endless list of rally drivers

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    senna is better than schuey any day. i admire his achievements, but no one ever goes on about sennas achievemenets still holds the record for winning at monaco 6 times in a row

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    Hang on a minute mi amigos... you said best driver, not best F1 driver:

    Sebastien Loeb

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    im saying that senna was the best driver ever regardless of track/car etc




    loeb is superb thow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by psbarham
    i do admire senna , he was after all the boy hood hero to millions ,
    Nail hit squarely on head. My immediate thought was Senna, but I'm probably biased as by the time Schumacher arrived I'd lost interest in F1, so Senna was the top driver I grew up with.

    Also hard to compare drivers from different eras because of advances in the cars. What about Jim Clarke, or Fangio, or even Jackie Stewart? Would they have been competitive now (or would Schuey or Senna have been competitive then)?

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    Nigel Mansell for his sportmanship

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    Quote Originally Posted by pitslayer
    senna is better than schuey any day. i admire his achievements, but no one ever goes on about sennas achievemenets still holds the record for winning at monaco 6 times in a row
    different drivers from different eras , senna fealt severly treatened by schumi and made a lot of mistakes because of him , but due to a cruel twist of fate we will never know who would have reigned in the long run , but you cant deny michaels statistics


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    but schui`s was racing longer than senna from 91/92 till today is longer than senna was racing for, and the techincal advances aswell, if you compare a drive between senna back in 1990 and 1999 for schuey, you`ll see that schuey has a blatantly faster car but senna`s car is only the length of the front wing off, and that was in his slow car, before going to williams

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    it doesn't matter how long they were racing for , the percentages will be the same , and better car WTF , wheres the active suspension ? abs ? hoooooge turbos ? cvt transmissions ? massive slick tyres? enormous wimgs ? side skirts etc in schumis era ? for most of it they had feck all whereas the late 80's early 90's had more gadgets than james bonds aston

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    fangio thats all there is to it

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    You can shout me down if you like but for me it would have to be Remy Julienne....

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    Hunt the shunt ??


    coats on !!

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    Best race car driver in drag racing would have to be Don "Big Daddy" Garlits. Not only because of all the races and championships he has won, but because he built his own cars and all the inovations he introduced into the sport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SGHOM
    Hunt the shunt ??


    coats on !!
    I was in First Class on a BA flight (not me paying needless to say!) once from Singapore to Sydney. James Hunt was on board with a girlfriend.

    After dinner he carried on drinking like a fish and started playing strip poker with the girl. The cabin crew more or less left them alone as I was the only other passenger up front, but as they got louder and louder and drunker and drunker they were told to tone it down. I was having a great time watching!

    But then ........... the prat stood up with only his pants and socks left on and moved behind one of the bulkheads and started pi$$ing on the floor next to one of the forward exit doors.

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