Formula 1’s Greatest Driver: The Unanswerable Question

This piece is about one of the most commonly debated questions in Formula 1: Who is the best driver ever to grace the sport?Formula 1 is a sport with many years of history and many of the greatest drivers ever. The sport is commonly thought to have been founded in 1950, but that is a myth. The 1950 season was the beginning of the FIA world championship, but there were many years of competition before that.The sport of grand prix racing began before the first World War and the first race to take the name "grand prix" was a race in Pau in 1901.The stars of the pre-1950 era include Nuvolari, Rosemeyer and Caracciola to name just a few. Tazio Nuvolari is the most well-known of the pre-war drivers, and his performance at...

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