Abu Dhabi - FORMULA 1 2015

[justinian]

okr said:

Yet, I still don't understand drivers like Webber. He is a good driver, he won and will win races, but he won't win the championship in this or any other car. He should have accepted by now that he's the number 2 driver in the top team, he's Red Bull's Coulthard/Barrichello/Massa/you name them. If he's not content with his role anymore (which didn't prevent him from becoming a millionaire), why didn't he leave prior to this season?

I agree with you. The problem is that none of the no.2s you mentioned would openly admit to being just that, a No.2.

Coulthard still lives in denial of it, Barricchello did his best to combat it and Webber refuses to openly accept it. The only one that does admit to it is Massa and even when he does it is a bit half-hearted.

In the heads of these No.2s they think (or thought) that they could still win a WDC. The general conception is that being a No.2 is for losers. Drivers with a lack of ambition. No one would admit to that. Not these days.