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that Nakajima kid always looks puzzled...

And a matter of fact he is. No doubt, he's a very promising driver and does posses skills in driving fast. He's still quite immature and won't blossom until one or two seasons. It's a shame he hasn't graduated through GP2 like Hamilton, Heikki and Rosberg because then he would have been a much more focused driver then what he is now.

I'm expecting the same as you, pal. Lewis can put the 5 or 6 wins in a row easily. The BMWs don't have the genuine race pace to catch them and Ferrari is a mystery. If Ferrari leave Sepang with meager points, I think Lewis is looking very good for the title because Ferrari has a reliability issue, Mclaren doesn't and there is no teammate war in Mclaren this year.

If this season becomes a disaster for them, I hope Ferrari uses this as motivation to get its act together, especially with its drivers. Alonso-Vettel would be the real Ferrari dream team.

whats wrong with Massa-Raikkonen? they won the WDC & WCC for Ferrari last season.

i can't agree more. i think he has lots of raw speed, just need to groom it there.

We know how that happened, last year macca drivers were superior, if michael had the car raikkonen had, the title would have been gained much earlier in the season.

Even with the Mclaren civil war, Raikkonen needed an epic choke job to take the title. Even then, he needed Vettel and Webber to crash into each other at Fuji, which some say was a crash caused by Hamy.

I don't think either of them are good technical drivers that can help Ferrari get the best car year-in and year-out, so they were very fortunate in '07. Also, I doubt Ferrari's somewhat frequent strategic snafus are coincidental. Some of that goes on the driver. I don't rate Kimi highly as a strategic driver.

Sure, Kimi is a "racer", but there is more to it than that. As Ferrari fan, I think it is better off with a strategic and technical No. 1 like Schumacher, Prost, Fangio than "racers" in the mold of Mansell, G. Villeneuve or Alesi.

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I agree. Even though Kimi won last year I still don't rate him higher than Alonso or Hamilton. The reason why he won is because Mclaren f*cked up for themselves.

He got into F1 a little too early. In 2006 he finished 6th in GP2 and then took on a full role as a test driver for Williams. IMO he should have stayed in GP2 for second season like Glock did, and for the record he finished 4th in GP2 during 2006. F1 is high stakes racing and you should only join the circus if you graduate from GP2 in the top 3. Nikajima would have benefited a lot from a second season in GP2.