That is a question that bothers everyone from a car owner to the sports writers, and event the drivers themselves.
It is my opinion that a championship is not needed to judge weather or not a race car driver is good. Just look at Nascar Sprint Cup driver Mark Martin. He has been racing in Nascar's top series for twenty seven years, though not consecutively, and has made seven hundred and fifty four starts as well as forty wins. That is a winning percentage of five point three percent. Mr. Martin also has two hundred Top fives and four hundred and fourteen top tens. Now granted Mark Martin has come close to winning the then Winston Cup in nineteen ninety, ninety four, ninety eight, and in two thousand and two. But for right now lets say that he didn't even accomplish that.
Doesn't Marl Martin's record speak for itself that he's a good if not great driver even without winning a Sprint Cup championship?
If Nascar drivers are considered great by some people because they won a championship or not, then how can some people consider Danica Patrick a great open wheel driver when she has only one win in over eighty one races. Now i agree that she has done better then any other female driver in open wheel or Nascar, that has come before her, however should she be considered a great driver. I don't think she should.
Now maybe if she had been racing a few more years or had a few more wins, then maybe i would consider her a great driver.
As i stated before i do not believe a driver needs to win a championship to be a great driver, instead people should judge a driver on how many starts they have, how many wins and top fives and well as top tens that driver has in their career.
(all numbers used for Mark Martin and Danica Patrick were current on October 27, 2009)
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