looking back at it now, I feel sd about everything that happened to some good f1 drivers.
webber will leave the big stage with..... nothing big achieved. He could never win his home race, where hundreds of thousands of aussie fans cheered for him. And how close did than win look back in 2006 on lap 30. Now a home-race-dream is nothing short of a lost opportunity for webber, to leave his name in the historybooks foerever.
He couldn't challenge for a championship either. Cursed or not, 5 years in a championship winning car did not suffy for Webber to be THE FIRST ONE AFTER JACK BRABHAM.
speaking of wasted opportunities, look at felippe massa. One lap, one corner, one moment. For that on moment he was a WDC. And in the next one it was back to reality for him - The #2 status. honestly, I feel very sorry, even to the extent that the sport ha been a bit robbed, by the cact that massa annd webber didnt win a title. Neither deserved it as much as alonso, as vettel, as schumacher senna etc. But can we say the ydeserved this title at least as much as J.B. and L.H?! In my opinion, YES. What's yours?
I had simillar feelings when montoya left formula 1. What a true legend in terms of entertainment and commitment (on the track). And what an UNSPECTACULAR, quiet ending of his f1 career. Massa's and Webber's look as they will be just as quiet in those drivers' last 9 races.
Will we have the same talk for alonso in a few months/ years time. When we talk about wasted talents and lost opportunities, will we include Hamilton in it as well next time. What about Kimi? They say he is on top of his game since his comeback. Yet a man who got demolished by alonso, is just matching him in terms of pace and sometimes even outpacing him. Is maybe the lotus a better car than we think? Does the car flatters raikknens performances rather than the other way around.
bottom line, there are so many questions, so many IFs in this sport that you always hate to see someone leave the big stage before you can answer yourself those questions. Could M.S. have challenged L.H? L.H. is as fast as nico if not a bit faster........ but comparing the merc's performance this year to last is comparing apples to peanuts. We all know that driving for 1-st is a lot different than driving for 5-th.