Unfortunately, despite some moments of brilliance (Monaco in the wet, Montreal in qualifying), he’s made even more mistakes (qualifying in Sepang, collision with Fernando Alonso in Sakhir, and his pitiful pit-lane collision with Raikkonen in Montreal). For sure, he’s got the talent and the car to have a shot at the championship, but he’ll need to stop making mistakes.Jarno Trulli:The Toyota team has seen its struggles in recent years. However, they’ve seen a slight upturn in performance this year, spurred on by a solid season from Trulli. Often criticized for poor race-craft, he gave the team its first podium since Melbourne 2006 last weekend in Magny-Cours and has done well to keep Toyota in the hunt for best of the rest.Heikki Kovalainen:If only he could get some good luck, he may have win Unreliability has cost him, and Mclaren, dearly. His results this year are far from indicative of his driving talent. Once he can get lady luck on his side, especially at the starts of races, he’ll be a force to deal with in the second half of the season.Grade CNico Rosberg:He started the year nicely with a podium in Melbourne, but has disappointed since.
Sure, some of it has to do with luck, but he’s also had his fair share of mistakes and poor races. He disappeared in Sepang, ran into the back of Hamilton in Montreal (although he continued on), and made Williams write off a chassis after Monaco. He’s not met expectations this season, but still has time to turn things around. The Williams is pretty competitive and is capable of nice results, but it’s up to him to maximize his scoring chances and not throw them away, as he’s done in a few races this year.Kazuki Nakajima:The best of the rookies this year (I’m not counting Vettel or Glock as rookies since they’ve ran several races before this year), Kaz has done very well for himself Many thought he would do what Nelson Piquet Jr. is doing this year, while Piquet was expected to be the top rookie. Switch that around, as Nakajima has given Williams some fine results and has helped compensate for Rosberg’s off races. Plus, given that Takuma Sato is not running at the moment, he’s given Japan a new Formula 1 hero, and a pretty good one at that.Sebestian Vettel:The youngest driver on the grid has taken advantage of others’ mistakes to score some nice points this season.
He struggled immensely early on with 4 first lap crashes in the first four races (which forces me to mark him this way), but has given STR some good points, which will serve them well considering the current state of team (Red Bull is going sell its stake in them within a year or two).Grade C-Fernando Alonso:The Renault may be a down on performance, but Alonso has thrown away a few chances to score well (see Monaco and Montreal) He’s got too much talent to waste those opportunities. It’s a tough as nails city, which loves the tough as nails sports That fits pretty nicely if you ask me.. The Steelhounds have also been surprisingly successful since coming to Youngstown, much due to their success on the ice.Yet the Steelhounds were released by the Central Hockey League and are currently looking for a league to latch onto. Youngstown is the home of a few minor league franchises for some major sports teams.
The oldest is the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, the short-season single A team for the Cleveland Indians.The Scrappers are in their 10th year of play and have seen many of the current Indian stars in their early days. They are a great watch if you enjoy baseball and want to see a few future Indians play before they become something in the big leagues.The two newest franchises that have come to the city with the addition of their convocation center, the Chevy Centre, are a hockey team by the name of the Youngstown Steelhounds and an Arena Football 2 team by the name of the Mahoning Valley Thunder.The Thunder are currently in their second year of play and have quickly become accepted by the city as an exciting group to watch. Pavlik’s story is well known as a kid who, like Maurice Clarett, grew up on the city’s south side.Pavlik has yet to be defeated in his professional career, with a record of 34-0. The “Ghost”, like Mancini, has knocked out most of his competitors, recording 30 knockouts.What does this say about Youngstown, a team without a well-known sports team? They’ve certainly bread and raised many of well-known athletes in the world of sports, but they’ve got nothing to call their own.They do in some way.