I've never stated that Button is better than Coulthard, I didn't even compare them . Well, back in the years when Coulthard was in fact in a good car when he was with Hakkinen, sure, he won some races but often, Hakkinen would out perform Coulthard badly and of course, we all know how serious the rivalry was between Hakkinen and Schumacher.
Let's be under no illusion that with TC gone all of a sudden cars will be flying off the track and spinning like tops.
There may be more mistakes and more overtaking and the reckless will wear the rear tyres out faster but I think the natural order will remain broadly the same.
What they really should be doing is going back to manual H gate gearboxes. That would sort the men out from the boys.
hm by the looks of things we have Klien favourite for the Force India drive. Gary paffet is testing for mclaren(mclaren is obviously considering options as you never see him test for them) Montagny is in the toyota looking like he will take that seat.(of course this is just by looking at the timesheet I could be all wrong)