Be Excellent To Each Other

I'd really like Button to win the championship next year, as he seems like a nice guy and nice guys should get rewarded.

It'll never happen, but it would be nice.

Still got two points more from three fewer finishes. Denotes a better driver to me. Especially considering Grosjean and Rosberg caused two of the incidents...

I wouldn't say that Hamilton isn't a better driver. I just reckon that Button is pretty good and probably deserves his place ahead of Magnussen.

There's not. Some drivers are consistently unlucky, and that shit's not ignored.

If forced to choose between the two would you have given Heidfeld the drive over Kubica in 2008 given Heidfeld massively outscored his (effectively) rookie team mate in 2007?

It depends on your plans for the future, I guess - if you think you're in with a good shot of winning the next season, you keep the guys who are proved to be good. If you think your season is a few years away, you keep the talented rookies, like Red Bull did.

[edit]Although I realise Red Bull are a special case.

I'm sure all the teams also plan several years in advance, looking at who else is likely to be up for grabs in the 2016, 17, 18 seasons and so on.

They'll know what drivers will be out of contract and who's looking promising in lower formulas that they might want to snap up.

Unless you're Schumacher.