This is going off topic again, if anyone wants to continue the motorsport talk post a topic in the Bullshit forum as that is a fitting forum title for it
Just to answer your questions, I wasn't comparing either of those two drivers just commenting F3000 isn't the only gateway to F1 now as it used to be. Raikkonen is indeed a talent but he also should be considered lucky to be given the chance to prove himself in F1 so soon, (I was working in Renault Sport the year he walked the championship).
I worked mainly in the Italian F3000 series for Redgrave Racing & did some testing with Arden. It was to be a British F3000 series but Bernie pulled the plug
More on my chief engineers web sit here:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stevelucas/work.htm