I thought heikki drove really really well in 2011 for caterham and definitely deserved another title. Problem was that his 2012 season wasn't as good which eventually made him look much worse than he is.
Caterham and marussia are both living in their totally own f1 world and when driving those cars it is practically impossible to impress anyone. 4 seasons in F1 and not even the slightest chance to even score one point tells everything about those turd cars. And even being so bad their only possible direction is down (hrt).
I think heikki is still a different and better driver than he was in his mclaren days. His problem never was qualifying though but the race pace. While he did fine yesterday I think the truth will be revealed in the race. Has he got the speed. Personally I'm carefully optimistic. Grosjean is definitely driving at his peak now and looking at the long stints grosjean was faster than kovalainen:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/201 ... friday-practice-analysis/
How much of that is down to fuel I don't know but looking at that graph heikki was about 0.6s slower per lap than grosjean on his long stint.
Oh and it does not look good for hulkenberg:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111351
Lotus needs to build more factories for 2014 if they are going to have grosjean&maldonado driving. The amount of spare parts those two will go though, bernie needs to buy another jumbo too I think
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