Being close with lesser experience ≠ automatically becoming better
(This is more of a question to you guys than my actual opinion bcs i am genuinely confused. and i don't mean to challenge any driver's skill)
I feel like F1 fans use the “experience card” in a very inconsistent way.
Whenever a younger/less experienced driver gets close to an established one, people immediately jump to:
“Imagine how good they’ll be with more experience.”
any yes maybe that will be the case but it is not a guarantee?
with George/Kimi in 2026. Kimi is close to George already, that’s incredibly impressive and absolutely says a lot about his talent ceiling. But why does “close with less experience” automatically become “will definitely be better later”?
more prominent example would be lando and oscar last yr.
yes lando had 4 more yrs of experience than oscar but experience mostly improves things like consistency, race management, adaptability, tyre saving. And that ceiling you reach very soon if u r in front running car.
Drivers don’t just gain a few tenths every season forever.
Being close early on proves huge talent and adaptability. It does NOT automatically prove future superiority.
Kimi is very talented but ppl are seriously overestimating him right now. He has a lot to prove, he hasn't proven ENOUGH yet.