Anyone remember when Ralf was good?
Posted by chet
Towards of 2000 I feel he dropped abit too, JB was getting on top of him abit too easy.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
"Anyone remember when Ralf was good?"
no.
all i remember of him is winning from pole position in Williams cars that were far and away the best car on the grid. he's never fought through the field to win a race, or won a race in not the best car. and he's usually dropped down to finish lower than he started. i think he should be booted out sooner rather than later. but of course the Toyota bigwigs didn't know much about F1, so they thought "get a Schumacher on board, we'll win the title in the next couple of years."
it ain't gonna happen guys, cut your losses and get a better driver who doesn't demand half the season's budget as a salary, you might improve a bit. or else the whole Toyota F1 project could go down as the biggest-spending-least-successful team ever.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
no.
all i remember of him is winning from pole position in Williams cars that were far and away the best car on the grid. he's never fought through the field to win a race, or won a race in not the best car. and he's usually dropped down to finish lower than he started. i think he should be booted out sooner rather than later. but of course the Toyota bigwigs didn't know much about F1, so they thought "get a Schumacher on board, we'll win the title in the next couple of years."
it ain't gonna happen guys, cut your losses and get a better driver who doesn't demand half the season's budget as a salary, you might improve a bit. or else the whole Toyota F1 project could go down as the biggest-spending-least-successful team ever.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
Umm, with all due respect, it's Toyota that's holding their drivers back, not the other way round.
@ TripleM, if they had a driver on half or less of Ralf's salary, they'd have more to spend on the car (of course money isn't everything, it's how wisely you spend it, but it helps if you're not giving most of it away to 1 guy for lacklustre performances time and time again). if they had someone who was a bit of a leader in the team, someone like his brother was at Ferrari or the way Alonso was at Renault, maybe they'd have a clearer direction to travel.
both their drivers appear to be simply "cruise-and-collect" drivers, no real fire in them to race hard and stretch the limits of what the car is capable of.
the culture is all wrong at Toyota. they keep going on about "One Aim" and all their company mottos and stuff like that, but there are too many bosses but none of them are pulling the team in any particular direction. they think simply throwing more money at the problem will help. seems like their "One Aim" is to waste as much money in as short a time as possible.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
both their drivers appear to be simply "cruise-and-collect" drivers, no real fire in them to race hard and stretch the limits of what the car is capable of.
the culture is all wrong at Toyota. they keep going on about "One Aim" and all their company mottos and stuff like that, but there are too many bosses but none of them are pulling the team in any particular direction. they think simply throwing more money at the problem will help. seems like their "One Aim" is to waste as much money in as short a time as possible.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
Why the hell did they replace Alan Mcnish and Salo...
Alan for a rookie F1 driver had a great season, and Salo was proven quick and was quick...
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Alan for a rookie F1 driver had a great season, and Salo was proven quick and was quick...
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
jbnd05 Wrote:
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> I sort of feel sorry for Ralf for having such a
> successful brother to be compared to, but Toyota
> needs a new driver lineup and a proper team
> manager. I think that they should hire someone
> young like Sutil as an understudy to an older
> driver.
but even without having to live in Michael's shadow for 10 seasons, he was still only average at best. and it's precisely because of his surname that he and his manager, Willi Weber, have been able to con Toyota out of so much money for these past few seasons. they thought having a Schumacher in the team would automatically give them success, which is a really silly attitude to take.
on his performances in his last season or two at Williams and since moving to Toyota, he definitely doesn't deserve to be the 2nd or 3rd highest paid drivers on today's grid.
he'd like us all to believe he's had it tough being Michael's brother, but it's because of that connection that he's earning $20-odd million a season for not doing very much. he should be licking Michael's boots for where he is today, not shunning him as if he's a curse on him.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
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> I sort of feel sorry for Ralf for having such a
> successful brother to be compared to, but Toyota
> needs a new driver lineup and a proper team
> manager. I think that they should hire someone
> young like Sutil as an understudy to an older
> driver.
but even without having to live in Michael's shadow for 10 seasons, he was still only average at best. and it's precisely because of his surname that he and his manager, Willi Weber, have been able to con Toyota out of so much money for these past few seasons. they thought having a Schumacher in the team would automatically give them success, which is a really silly attitude to take.
on his performances in his last season or two at Williams and since moving to Toyota, he definitely doesn't deserve to be the 2nd or 3rd highest paid drivers on today's grid.
he'd like us all to believe he's had it tough being Michael's brother, but it's because of that connection that he's earning $20-odd million a season for not doing very much. he should be licking Michael's boots for where he is today, not shunning him as if he's a curse on him.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
Ralf has had some stunning laps in the past.. ie
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and one of my all time favourites, i had a really high quality lap of this, from tv cameras, and it was perfect.
I still beleive if Ralf has a car which is suited to him he will peform as well as if not better than most drivers on the grid.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
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and one of my all time favourites, i had a really high quality lap of this, from tv cameras, and it was perfect.
I still beleive if Ralf has a car which is suited to him he will peform as well as if not better than most drivers on the grid.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
of course you can find exceptions here and there to disprove my points, but a couple of good laps around Monaco and some wins in the best car are not exactly a glowing career.
"I still beleive if Ralf has a car which is suited to him he will peform as well as if not better than most drivers on the grid."
that can be said of every driver on the grid.
the difference is when a driver can take a car beyond where it should be, or drive around a problem, or fight through the field to finish higher than he started. Ralf, to my knowledge, hasn't done any of these.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
"I still beleive if Ralf has a car which is suited to him he will peform as well as if not better than most drivers on the grid."
that can be said of every driver on the grid.
the difference is when a driver can take a car beyond where it should be, or drive around a problem, or fight through the field to finish higher than he started. Ralf, to my knowledge, hasn't done any of these.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
I mentioned that race earlier, that 1999 season he did well.. but that race, wow, amazingly unlucky
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Nickv Wrote:
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> One race doesn't make Ralfs carreer better. Fact
> is that he is an average driver, only capable of
> winning when everything is perfect.
There was an article in F1 Racing a few years back focussing on the same point regarding Trulli too
The guy can be brilliant on the day when everything right from the setup of his car, the inclination of the sun, the wind direction and the orientation of the hairs on his backside are in order. And considering the Toyota this year is no Mclaren/Ferrari it doesnt bode well for the team.
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> One race doesn't make Ralfs carreer better. Fact
> is that he is an average driver, only capable of
> winning when everything is perfect.
There was an article in F1 Racing a few years back focussing on the same point regarding Trulli too
The guy can be brilliant on the day when everything right from the setup of his car, the inclination of the sun, the wind direction and the orientation of the hairs on his backside are in order. And considering the Toyota this year is no Mclaren/Ferrari it doesnt bode well for the team.
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