F1 Thought.... Legends in the making v Damn decent drivers

We live in a lucky age where it seems that we have legends in the making coming out of our ears.

Schumi is undoubtably a legend, then that up and coming Alonso beat him to become a legend ender. Next year after that Super Rookie Hamilton came along to be the next Senna, quickly followed by that rather spectacular Mini-Schumi Vettel!

So last year we had no less then 4 legends on the grid!

Not to mention Robert Kubica looked certain to reach the cloudy heights of "Silent but deadly Legend" (I'll copyright that one I guess) of Kimi Raikkonen. And we have Raikkonen back now from rally.

So in the last couple years we've had another 2 as well on top of the 4.

Wow how lucky are we?

But who really is a legend and who is just a damned good driver? And when it all comes down to it lets face it, who really decides who a legend is? What is so special about some of these drivers, and when we look back at legends what period actually has a LOT of legends like we seem to have now?

And what the hell is wrong with just being a damned brilliant driver? (Stand up and take a bow Nico Rosberg, Giancarlo Fisichella, Nick Heidfeld and the rest of you!)