Whos the Greatest F1 driver???

Question

so thier have been alot of Great F1 Drivers, who is the grestes to ever race a Car???

Answer 1

Sterlin Moss back in the day..before all the big technology.....

Senna....RIP was a brilliant driver......

Present day.....Schummy was the best before he retired.

Answer 2

Fangio.

Answer 3

On sheer dominance, Schumacher. But I still think Prost and Senna were better drivers.

The best? I'm gonna go with Senna.

Answer 4

It's very difficult to tell because F1 has changed so much since it began, unlike most other sports.

I would probably go for Michael Schumacher. Why? Because he was quick, consistent, fantastic in the wet, and, more then anything else, he built an entire team around him.

If Schumacher hadn't joined Ferrari I highly doubt they would have won a championship in the last 10 years. he moulded a team into what he wanted, and even when he had an inferior car he managed to make the absolute most of it (look at '97 or '98 for proof!).

Unfortunately when Ferrari DID have the fastest car it made F1 very boring indeed, because there was no competition within Ferrari.

Answer 5

If these names aren't listed then your answer is either biased or just flat our wrong.  Schumacher, Senna, Lauda, Prost, Moss, Raikkonen, Alonso, and Jackie Stweart.

You have to take many things into account when trying to decide who the greatest driver of all time...  Flash in the pan/short career, or dominance because of a superior car eliminates most drivers.  

From that stand point the only one driver that really stands out in my opinion and that is Jackie Stweart.  He just as easily could have been a go nowhere driver because of the safety issues, which he championed, or the reliability of the cars, which if it wasn't an issue he would have won many more than he did.

In the early 70s getting into a F1 car was effectively signing a death warrant.  If you survived then it was a good day and the fear of death was what cut Jackie's season short.  Not ability, or performance, or a team principle pushing you out the door.  He almost died on too many times and with his teammate's death it was enough for him to have to walk away.  He left the sport well before his peak because the team and the sport couldn't make the cars safe enough.

#1  Jackie Stewart  - Hands down

#2  Michael Schumacher - Anyone could have won with the ferrari reliability in the early 00s but none the less it was him and it was complete dominance for 5 years

Beyond that is even more of a debate.

Answer 6

Senna

Answer 7

i only know 1 name- schumacher.

Answer 8

The one and only...Pedro Lamy

Answer 9

Ayrton Senna...

Hadn't a great number of victories, because his era was divided with Alain Prost... Michael Schumacher hadn't rivals to battle.

Answer 10

Shumacher becouse he given Ferrari to win after 20 years!

Sanna have the fastest cars in his career.

That in the modern F1...

In the past very past, the grestest driver is Tazio Nuvolari.

Ciao

Answer 11

schumacher because he used to win all the time

Answer 12

Michael Schumacher (not sure if I spelled it right).

Answer 13

Nikki Lauda

Answer 14

Today: Lewis Hamilton

Past: Micheal Schumacher and Ayrton Senna

Answer 15

david purley (type his name into youtube, terrible!)

Answer 16

Sam Posey

Answer 17

Top 3 all-time are Schumacher, Senna, and Jim Clark.

Answer 18

1.JUAN MANUEL FANGIO 5 WINS FROM 7 SEASONS - PERCENTAGE RACES WON FROM RACES STARTED!

2.SENNA HAD HE HAVE LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO PROVE IT CONCLUSIVELY - RAW ABILITY!

3.SCHUMACHER MOST TITLE WINS - BEST RACING BRAIN! (STRATEGIST).

4.FERNANDO ALONSO TWO TITLES - YOUNGEST F1 TITLE WINNER (UNLESS LEWIS WINS IT).

5.KIMI RAIKKONEN NEARLY BEAT SCHUMACHER IN '03 AND ALONSO IN '05 DESPITE TERRIBLE CAR. TITLE WINNER IN THE MOST COMPETITIVE F1 SEASON EVER. ONLY MAN TO WIN TITLE GOING INTO FINAL RACE PLACED THIRD BETTERING PIQUET IN '86.  - AN OUT AND OUT RACER!

6.LEWIS HAMILTON BEST FIRST SEASON EVER BY A HUGE MARGIN AND ONLY ONE POINT OFF A TITLE WIN - HAS THE POTENTIAL TO HAVE ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE TOP FIVE AND THEREFORE BECOME THE BEST OF ALL TIME!

Answer 19

a lot of great names here, i'll throw gram hill and mario andretti into the mix as these two not only won in f1 but just bout every thing else they drove as well

Answer 20

michael schoumacher

Answer 21

Michael Schumacher

I will tell you why...

Senna was too passionate. As a driver he was not content to wait to overtake or use tactics

Prost was the opposite. Very good tacticlly however he was useless in wet weather conditions and always moved teams when he thought his team mate was close to his performance

Mansell was a bit erratic. He would deliver a great performance one week and be a second off the pace the week after

Schumacher destroyed a 3 time champion Nelson Piquet in his first full season (granted that Piquet was coming to the end of his career) None of Schumachers team mates even got close to him

Answer 22

Derek Bell was one of the greatest drivers but never stayed at a F1 team long enough to make an impact.

Answer 23

Sterling Moss

Answer 24

As I said for an earlier Q:

Fangio, by a long way. There's never been another driver who came close, not even Clark and Stewart, the drivers I'd rate as second and third in the all-time list.

From drivers I actually saw, then I'd say Prost ahead of Senna, Schumacher, Lauda, Piquet. The other two I'd put in the top 10 are Ascari and Moss.

The stats only favour Schumacher in absolute terms - look at the figures as a percentage of race starts and then Fangio is miles ahead of anybody else. Also, Fangio won his 5 titles from 7 full seasons, Schumacher took 15 years to put his 7 titles together.

Answer 25

schumacher

Answer 26

juan fangio

Answer 27

the only F1 driver I know must be the greatest - Michael Schumaker

Answer 28

schumacher - the greatest f1 driver of all times

Answer 29

Jean-Pierre Sarti

Answer 30

Ayrton Senna should be one of the greatest drivers.

But Michael Schumacher for sure have defined the sports and taken its popularity to newer heights.

Schumacher has continued the legacy of Senna (and coincidentally, Schumacher won the race in which Senna lost his life).