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IMHO, all these programs that claim to find and update your drivers are useless at best if not harmful. The fact of the matter is you don't have to always be fiddling and updating your drivers. If ever, with the emphasis on ever, you need to update your drivers, you simply have to visit your computer manufacturer's website and search for the drivers. If you are installing a piece of hardware, e.g. a printer, a CD with the required drivers is usually included with the device. At worst, you may find you have to visit the manufacturer's site for up to date drivers.
Yes, I would. I have never had to use any kind of "driver this" or "driver that" software in my life. The only useful driver related software are those which allow you to back up and restore your drivers. IMHO, anything else is a total waste of time.
However recently we have seen many drivers choose different paths to F1, for different reasons which are mostly financial but also in F1 there is a lot of insecurities which seems to be driving people away, it is a tough circus to get into.
Joking aside, there's a bunch of really good drivers scattered all around these series, you see guys like Frijns, Wickens, Felix da Costa, Parente, Green, Bamber, Tandy, Lotterer, Wittmann, Mortara, Jani, Power. They were all in the F1 feeder series and did better (at least in some seasons) than many others that got to F1 with a little more luck and/or money and/or timing. Nevermind the guys that dropped out so early they didn't even register on the "ladder" (Tandy's a great example of that - he only got to be a midfielder in a **** chassis in British F3 and that was it). I'm not saying there was a lost world champion in this list (well, Frijns, maybe...) but with the proper preparation there's absolutely no reason many of them couldn't beat some of the relatively-competent-and-could-lap-me-in-10-minutes-but-not-all-that-special-for-the-professional-ranks jokers making up the numbers on F1's midfield and the back.
On the other hand I believe there's somewhere from 5 to 10 F1 drivers that really, genuinely, stand out and there's nobody out there in other series that could beat them. Sorry it still is the peak of the ladder and unless something goes very wrong the Hamiltons, Vettels and Alonso still inevitably end there.
In the USA, it's more rewarding financially to get into NASCAR and stay there, a top driver can enjoy a career over 20 years and make a LOT of money. Jeff Gordon made over 20 million last year. Factor in 20+ years at 20 million per year, and very, very few Formula One drivers make that during their careers. They also get to enjoy racing in a lot more races, with a lot less of the politics of Formula One.
I am beginning to follow more closely DTM, Indycar and Porsche Cup series now. basically i try to follow as much as i can where a series is getting factory support and thus drivers have to not pay as much as they would to drive. I am beginning to wonder how these drivers would perform using the fastest cars around (F1)
Knowing the costs for single seater racing and seeing for myself a lot of very good drivers leave it because of that has been a turn off for me to label the top single seater series as the one with the best drivers in the world.
But whilst I believe the top F1 drivers are and would always have been the best at being F1 drivers, doesn't mean they are the best touring car or prototype or stock car drivers. Specially when you're up against those talented drop-outs that have been perfecting their skills in these different cars for years. And even more so if they do the move at the end of their careers, way past their peak motivation, after having won lots, earned lots, experienced lots of danger.
I'm a huge fan but I rate a handful of Indycar drivers above Power in terms of driving skill. Dixon, Bourdais, Newgarden... the late Justin Wilson too. Maybe Pagenaud and Hunter-Reay, but I'm not so sure.
While Sebastien Ogier is clearly a phenomenal talent, I'm not convinced the WRC has the same level of talent it used to have. Maybe this is just me remembering 'my era' again, but it certainly isn't on the same level as the days of Makinen, Sainz, McRae, Burns, Gronholm, Solberg, Loeb etc. Perhaps, at the moment, the driving talent in the World Rallycross is a bit better. I'd love to see Ogier have a go in that.
I think it is clear that some championships have seen the level of talent decrease, compared to a few years ago. The BTCC has a very healthy grid size wise, but is obviously still no match for the talent of the Super Touring era. Likewise, the WTCC is going through a weak point too, compared to how it was from '06-'09. In contrast, the DTM grid probably has the most talent in it of any major European based championship.
IMO for top drivers, the differences between them is minuscule. But Formula One is one of those sports where a driver becomes a specialist, he only has to devote himself to one specific type of driving. And just like a snooker player who plays/practices 8 hours a day, the skill level is refined. And when it comes to specialization, some drivers train themselves to perform in a certain manner. Some endurance racers aren't that quick in qualifying, but can run consecutive fast laps and be easy on the tires. That is impressive, although it doesn't jump out to the casual race fan.
In my opinion top Formula One drivers spend years refining their skills for just this one discipline, and thus are unbelievable in their one and only discipline. But IMO they are not the best, and exclusive from any other drivers. I believe that there are over a hundred top drivers who are incredible, but they are spread out around many different series. But if you picked the top five on that list, not all would be Formula One drivers.
I have great respect and admiration for those who manage to excel in several or even many different disciplines - to me, those are possibly the best drivers in the world, even moreso than drivers who excel in only one form of racing.
IMO for top drivers, the differences between them is minuscule. But Formula One is one of those sports where a driver becomes a specialist, he only has to devote himself to one specific type of driving. And just like a snooker player who plays/practices 8 hours a day, the skill level is refined. And when it comes to specialization, some drivers train themselves to perform in a certain manner. Some endurance racers aren't that quick in qualifying, but can run consecutive fast laps and be easy on the tires. That is impressive, although it doesn't jump out to the casual race fan.
I actually wonder how some of the top drivers in F1 would do if they moved back down to GP2 or another feeder series. It's a much more aggressive type of racing with a lot of very hungry drivers with nothing to lose and everything to gain.
If the seats in F1 were to be filled by the 22 best drivers in the world, from these top six or seven drivers and back, many of the names Noikee mentions has to be there. The Sauber-drivers, and Manor-drivers obviously has to go. Question-mark over several others too, when we have drivers like Frijns, da Costa and Wickens and also Lotterer perhaps, not in the top echelon of motorsport.
Seriously though, the 20 drivers in F1 are probably among the top 50-75 drivers at any given time. Right now we have a lot of undeniable talent in Indycar, WEC, Formula E and lower categories who will never get a F1 race drive. Guys like Buemi and Di Grassi even had F1 drives and were clearly worthy of sticking around but lacked the funds or backers. But the average fan, unless they are a devotee of that series, values drivers in terms of; F1 drop out... F1 retiree... not good enough to even get F1 drive... etc.
The failure of F1 is that the structure is all or nothing, there's no tiered system like the relegation classes for the EPL and UEFA. You're either in it to be WORLD CHAMPION or you're a loser who's off chasing the No One Really Cares Cup. That's how Bernie likes it. I'm amazed he let Hulk go and drive at Le Mans because that is inviting back the old days when sportscar drivers were as respected as F1 drivers and drivers would get about equal respect for their achievements in each. Unfortunately sportscars is now, to most casual fans, "just a race (LM)" whereas F1 is a yearly activity like a football season.
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