Calling a world champion a mediocre #2 :lol:
All sportsmen have their peaks and their declines. Being a world champion doesn't mean you'll be world championship-good forever. Kimi was WC
10 years ago. MSC was 7 times WC and he retired when he was Kimi's current age, then came back, I don't think anyone will argue he was on form to be a champion even on a contender car. He knew that and retired for good.
What a load of crap, fact is sometimes a driver has worse luck with reliability than the other driver. It's not sabotage it's just the way things go in Formula 1 sometimes. Are you trying to say that these failures didn't happen? Or that Kimi broke the car on purpose? Sebastian also had a blowout at Silverstone do you blame that on him as well? The worse finishing position Kimi has had this year is a 7th place and he had brake failure, the same brake failure that has retired several drivers since the start of the hybrid turbo era so to suggest that Kimi shouldn't have been affected by it is idiotic.
When did I say he shouldn't be affected? If anything I said exactly the opposite, that in the long run, the amount of mechanical failures for both drivers from a team would end up being more or less the same.
Kimi has shown improvement year after year as he adapted to the car and the team, the opposite was true of Felipe though he may have just given up since he was partnered with Alonso.
So let me get this straight. Kimi returns to Ferrari, a team he had already been in for many years, in 2014. Vettel joins in 2015. Yet Kimi is the one still adapting and getting used to the new team? Maybe the car is a little more tailored for Seb than Kimi, but damn, their performance is way far apart sometimes.
The last WDC for Ferrari by the way? Kimi and while Massa was quick that year he wasn't exactly a strong driver, in fact I would say that his mistakes that year cost him a chance at the championship.
Again that was 10 years ago. Age changes sportsmen and they all have a peak and decline. In top competition you can't just rest on your laurels.
Let's pretend the championship ended right now and Vettel was champion. Massa was 4th that year. Kimi is 5th right now. So you're arguing Massa wasn't driving strongly that year yet Kimi is? Right.
The only reason they won the constructors that year is because McLaren was DSQed, by you're reasoning they should've glided into the 2006 constructors championship but they lost it by 5 points, 5 points.
Hey guess what McLaren had that year and would have earned them the WCC? Two strong drivers
I'll bet that if Ferrari wins the constructors this year you'll roll your eyes and say that Vettel won it on his own.
I give credit where credit's due. Kimi was a great driver and he was on his game in his last years with McLaren and the first seasons with Ferrari (didn't need that so called "getting used to the new team and car for 4 years" back then, it seems). Then he went away from F1 to everyone's surprise and when he came back it seemed he was gonna go for blood, 3rd with that Lotus, damn. But since then he's been hit and miss, very inconsistent, and as I said before, the guy is not getting younger.
I was not a fan of Vettel not even Alonso when they joined Ferrari, but they both have shown their skill and earned my respect.
Am I saying I have no respect or admiration for Kimi as a driver? Hell no, he's one of the elite, but right now the elite has some other drivers which I think would bring the team I support better results.