Originally posted by HENG@:
Piquet had the superior car that year. Senna has got some skills. He managed to overtake cleanly, whereas Piquet, in my opinion, got the car too sideways into the corner. In an era of slicks, u might get away with it, but my opinion is that the drifting was more a desperate measure and a slight mistake, because Piquet outbraked himself into the corner. In modern era Formula 1, he wouldn't get away with it, the tyres would give and he'd just understeer straight on.
Yeah...
During that era when mechanical grip dominates, the cars have not got little wings and sidepod wings and airbox wings all over the place, the cars become less aero sensitive, and can be pitched and slide..
And when you consider Piquet probably had one hand on his gear lever as well it kind of take it to another level of car control

With the amount of downforce now, the cars, if they pitch, lose so much aero grip, they just spin out..

Maybe that F1 w@nker boss should bring back manual gearboxes and do away with traction control and lets have some racing as in days of yore..
Piquet is so often forgotten round these parts Good to know someone cares

Equally impressive is also that Hakkinen pass over that oh-not-so-good Shoemaker at Spa 2000, considering that he is up against arguably one of the greatest F1 driver
