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Originally Posted by G-Mach1
For crying out loud he was behind a rookie who had never seen the track before in Brazil.
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The guy was blocking him lap after lap. I can speak from experience that it is VERY easy for a slower driver to hold up and or block a faster one. It has zero to do with skill and more to do with track position when entering an overtaking zone. Add to the fact that it is extremely difficult to overtake in F1 to begin with. The real skill came when Button forced his way through finally and kept teh car in check on the ragged edge while making that pass. A leser driver would have lost control or collided with the other car. It may not have looked like it but that pass was just as skillful a piece of driving and car control than any. But I'm sure you would have made short work of such a "rookie" had you been in the race
Let's not forget that there were several other drivers that had a hard time passing Kobayashi as well. I guess they all suck too.