Whoopsy, the metric I listed doesn't contradict your statements:

- Vettel is not listed

- Schumacher is listed only with his first title at Benetton

- Alonso is not listed

- Prost is listed with a title won before Senna incidents

- Lauda lost to James Hunt in 1976 mainly because of the crash he had but he was driving at that time the best F1 car of the grid, the Ferrari 312T&T2, the one with the flat 12cyl Boxer engine. Making mistakes (crashing) is part of the game.

- Fangio is not listed because his titles were won before 1958, the year when the Constructor's title started BUT I would like to point out that five titles with those cars in those years are harder to achieve compared with modern times. Even Schumacher said that about Fangio. And all F1 drivers that drove an old F1 car said that the car scared them. More than that he won the title with four and a half different teams (Maserati-Mercedes and Maserati alone counts for one and a half team).

This metric is not perfect but it gives us a very good candidate list for the best driver title.

When we try to measure something so subjective as talent, especially in a COMPETITIVE situation that needs to take under account so many random variables (the second driver, the team, mechanical failures, weather, etc) we humans have the tendency to turn to metrics because in the end FACTS outlive us.

 

 

 


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