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What a joke :lol:
Autosport magazine, which is published in Britain, has come out with a list of the 50 greatest race car drivers in the world.
Not surprisingly, Michael Schumacher tops the list. The fact of the matter is, he'd probably be No. 1 on any such list prepared by any publication that knows anything about motorsports. As attached as people around here are to NASCAR, the perennial Formula One champion is The Man worldwide.
What's just plain silly, though, is that the magazine's list ranks 25 drivers ahead of the first driver from NASCAR's Nextel Cup Series. Ryan Newman is 26th on the list, with Jimmie Johnson 29th, Kevin Harvick 34th, Dale Earnhardt Jr. 42nd, Kurt Busch 43rd and Tony Stewart 49th.
Notice any names missing? Jeff Gordon might have lost a half-step from his peak form of 1998, when he won 13 races, but if you're telling me that the 20th best guy in Formula One is better than Gordon then I'm telling you that you've been playing the bagpipes too long.
F1 driver Fernando Alonso is second on the list, with Kimi Raikkonen, another F1 driver, third. Fourth is Petter Solbert and fifth is Sebastian Loeb - both are world rally drivers.
Even if you allow for a bias against American racing in the Autosport rankings, there's this. Scott Dixon of the Indy Racing League is seventh, behind Juan Pablo Montoya. Dixon's a heck of a racer, but there's no way he's 17 spots higher on any kind of driver ranking than the best driver in NASCAR.
By the way, I know that bagpipes are from Scotland and not England. Get over it. And for the guy who's an F1 fan who always calls my voice mail to tell me how stupid I am but never leaves his name, save the dime. I know how you feel.
Autosport magazine, which is published in Britain, has come out with a list of the 50 greatest race car drivers in the world.
Not surprisingly, Michael Schumacher tops the list. The fact of the matter is, he'd probably be No. 1 on any such list prepared by any publication that knows anything about motorsports. As attached as people around here are to NASCAR, the perennial Formula One champion is The Man worldwide.
What's just plain silly, though, is that the magazine's list ranks 25 drivers ahead of the first driver from NASCAR's Nextel Cup Series. Ryan Newman is 26th on the list, with Jimmie Johnson 29th, Kevin Harvick 34th, Dale Earnhardt Jr. 42nd, Kurt Busch 43rd and Tony Stewart 49th.
Notice any names missing? Jeff Gordon might have lost a half-step from his peak form of 1998, when he won 13 races, but if you're telling me that the 20th best guy in Formula One is better than Gordon then I'm telling you that you've been playing the bagpipes too long.
F1 driver Fernando Alonso is second on the list, with Kimi Raikkonen, another F1 driver, third. Fourth is Petter Solbert and fifth is Sebastian Loeb - both are world rally drivers.
Even if you allow for a bias against American racing in the Autosport rankings, there's this. Scott Dixon of the Indy Racing League is seventh, behind Juan Pablo Montoya. Dixon's a heck of a racer, but there's no way he's 17 spots higher on any kind of driver ranking than the best driver in NASCAR.
By the way, I know that bagpipes are from Scotland and not England. Get over it. And for the guy who's an F1 fan who always calls my voice mail to tell me how stupid I am but never leaves his name, save the dime. I know how you feel.
