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I've just received a copy of what is already guaranteed to be the most contentious motorsport book of the year: Alan Henry's Top 100 F1 Drivers Of All Time. Having once compiled a similar list that ran in another magazine a few years ago, I know exactly what he's letting himself in for here - a lot of abuse, only some of it good natured. But of all the people who will know this in advance, Alan is the one - he has for the past couple of decades been the man who comes up with the Autocourse Top 10 at the end of each season. I won't spoil it by telling you who he's put at number one, but I will say that his list doesn't look anything like mine did - and that neither of them will look anything like yours. You can pretty much guarantee that if you asked every F1 participant, journalist and fan to come up with such a list, no two would be the same. And because we are all so heavily into this sport, we are typically all too willing to argue the toss. Of course there can be no 'correct' list. How can you compare drivers who never competed against each other, who faced very different challenges, very different competitive circumstances? You can't, ultimately. It's not even possible to definitively rate drivers who compete against each other every two weeks. The closest we can get to direct comparison is between team-mates - and even then the waters can get horribly muddied. © 2021 Autosport
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