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Modern F1 drivers not ruthless enough – Johansson

 XPB Images Former F1 driver Stefan Johansson thinks modern racers no longer have the ruthless streak that used to define their predecessors, save for McLaren-Honda’s Fernando Alonso. The Swede’s own career in the top flight spanned 11 years (1980-1991) and included spells at Shadow, Spirit, Tyrell, Toleman, Ferrari, McLaren, Ligier, Onyx, AGS, Footwork. This gave Johansson the opportunity to witness some of the sport’s greatest rivalries at first hand, like the titanic feud between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at McLaren (1988-1989), as well as Nelson Piquet’s mind games to unsettle William team-mate Nigel Mansell (1986-1987). Compared to these intra-team battles,...
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