A little quiz on favourites drivers and teams

[Garry Walker]

Just some questions that I think would be interesting to see the answers to.

1st favourite driver & team:
All time favourite driver & team:
Current favourite driver:
All time most disliked driver & team:
Current most disliked driver:
Best memory from F1:
Worst memory from F1:

:)

[aussiemaxx]

Just some questions that I think would be interesting to see the answers to.

1st favourite driver & team:
All time favourite driver & team:
Current favourite driver:
All time most disliked driver & team:
Current most disliked driver:
Best memory from F1:
Worst memory from F1:

:)

1st favourite driver and team= Gincarlo fisichella
All time favourite driver and team=Jarno trulli(Reno)
All time most disliked driver and team=Ferarri, micheal schumacher
Current most disliked driver= Kimi raikonnen
Best memory from f1=When schumacer got hit in 2000 at germany
Worst memory from f1=Tom pryce crash Kylama 1977

[D-Type]

1st favourite driver = Stirling Moss
1st favourite team = Ecurie Ecosse
All time favourite driver = Fangio
All time favourite team = Rob Walker
Current favourite driver = Alonso
All time most disliked driver = Senna (Suzuka 1990)
All time most disliked team = None
Current most disliked driver = None
Best memory from F1 = Suzuka 1975 (Hunt's wchampionship)
Worst memory from F1 = Imola 1994

[CCFanatic]

Just some questions that I think would be interesting to see the answers to.

1st favourite driver & team: David Coulthard- 2000(first year I was a fan)and Red Bull Racing
All time favourite driver & team: Dan Gurney and Ferrari(my grandfather worked there for 20 years)
Current favourite driver: David Coulthard
All time most disliked driver & team: Michael Schumahcer and McLaren
Current most disliked driver: Fernando Alonso
Best memory from F1: Being at Spa in 1998 with my father(who was working for Jordan GP) when Damon Hill won.
Worst memory from F1: Robert Kubica crash at Montreal, I thought he did not make it.

:)

My answers

[wedge]

1st favourite driver & team: Mansell, Lotus
All time favourite driver & team:Mansell, Williams
Current favourite driver:Lewis Hamilton
All time most disliked driver & team: Senna, Ferrari (Ross Brawn to be exact)
Current most disliked driver: Ralf Schumacher
Best memory from F1: Senna vs Mansell, Barcelona, 1992
Worst memory from F1: 2002 season - not just Ferrari's domination, but because we had pit-car telemetry and launch control. F1 was heading the wrong way, too much emphasis on the constructor/manufacturer competition, not enough on the race track.

[Crypt]

1st favourite driver & team: Keke Rosberg & Williams
All time favourite driver & team: Keke Rosberg Williams
Current favourite driver: Nico Rosberg
All time most disliked driver & team: DC & McLaren
Current most disliked driver: Hamilton
Best memory from F1: No favs
Worst memory from F1: n/a

[Jimmy Magnusson]

1st favourite driver & team:
Mika Häkkinen / McLaren (first season I watched was 98 as a nine year old, and the fact that he was Finnish and did well was more than enough for me)

All time favourite driver & team:
Hard to say. Looking further back in time, Brabham perhaps?

Current favourite driver:
Takuma Sato

All time most disliked driver & team:
Hm. I guess that TWR Arrows is the one, if anything. Can't really think of a driver though.

Current most disliked driver:
Noone really, they're all pretty ok

Best memory from F1:
Mark Webber bringing the Minardi home for a point in his first GP :)

Worst memory from F1:
Nothing that stands out, but the Ferrari dominance was pretty boring though. Oh, and USGP 2005.

[Cozzie]

First and all time favourite drivers: Hamilton, Alonso, von Trips and pre-war Rosemeyer.
First and all time favourite teams: Mercede 1954-55 and Auto Union.
Current favourite drivers and team: Alonso and Hamilton/McLaren.
All time and current most disliked driver and team: Kimi Raikkonen and Ferrari.
Best F1 memory: Hungary 2003 and Canada 2007.
Worst F1 memory: Any race which Kimi wins!

[Hawkmoon]

1st favourite driver & team: Jean Alesi & Ferrari
All time favourite driver & team: Michael Schumacher & Ferrari
Current favourite driver: Either of the current Ferrari drivers
All time most disliked driver & team: Senna & McLaren
Current most disliked driver: Alonso with Hamilton rapidly joining him
Best memory from F1: Schumacher's victory at Suzuka in 2000 to finally clinch the championship
Worst memory from F1: Toss up between Senna taking out Prost at Suzuka in 1990 and Schumi's engine failure at the same place in 2006.

[ChickenMcNugget]

1st favourite driver & team: It depends whether I count myself as having become a 'fan' for the first time in 2001/2002, when I began to seriously read about and watch it, or earlier... I'll suggest Damon Hill and Williams, 1996.

All time favourite driver & team: Raikkonen and McLaren.

Current favourite driver: Alonso, on account of how much he has increasingly impressed me since 2005.

All time most disliked driver & team: None at all really, I seem to just appreciate any and every driver each year in their respective team places...

Current most disliked driver: None.

Best memory from F1: I'll opt for the first full Grand Prix I ever recall watching on TV - Coulthard's 2002 victory in Monaco.

Worst memory from F1: Erm, the invasion of the track at the '03 British GP? There isn't an obvious candidate here neccessarily since I started watching, but definitely Kubica's crash was as chilling as any F1 on-track incident for a while. The 'hands-on-heads' responses of BMW Sauber personnel immediately afterwards just summed up exactly the gravest fears of the rest of us at that moment.

[jens]

1st favourite driver & team: Didn't have a fav. driver at first, just liked Ferrari
All time favourite driver: Trulli, of course
-- & team: counting all times I guess Ferrari still has an edge with Jordan close second and Toyota catching
Current favourite driver: still Trulli with Vettel joining him at that status
All time most disliked driver: Räikkönen
-- & team: McLaren (although at the present moment I don't have a 'disliked' team)
Current most disliked driver: Kimi? Although not as much as before
Best memory from F1: 2000 Suzuka, 2004 Monaco
Worst memory from F1: How Ferrari lost the titles at the last races in the end of 90s.

[Storm]

1st favourite driver & team: Senna and McLaren

All time favourite driver & team: Ayrton Senna, Juan Pablo Montoya and Ferrari before the dominance started when they were playing catch up.

Current favourite driver: Fernando Alonso

All time most disliked driver & team: Michael Schumacher (and I started as a big fan when he went to Ferrari in 96!)

Current most disliked driver: David Coulthard/Mark Webber/Jenson Button

Best memory from F1: Barrichello winning British GP 2003, Alonso winning his 1st title

Worst memory from F1: Austria 2002

[ShiftingGears]

1st favourite driver & team: Raikkonen and Williams

All time favourite driver & team: Gilles Villeneuve and Lotus

Current favourite driver: Kimi Raikkonen

All time most disliked driver & team: Probably Schumacher and Ferrari

Current most disliked driver: Albers

Best memory from F1: Alonso absolutely flying at Hungary '06

Worst memory from F1: The many times I see Webbers car break.

[RaikkonenRules]

1st favourite driver & team: Eddie Irvine Ferrari

All time favourite driver & team: Kimi Raikkonen McLaren

Current favourite driver: Lewis Hamilton or Kimi (can't decide)

All time most disliked driver & team: Schumacher Ferrari

Current most disliked driver: Ralf Schumacher

Best memory from F1: Underdogs doing well

Worst memory from F1: Alonso having wins gifted to him because of other drivers blowing up.

[Mintexmemory]

1st favourite driver & team: Chris Amon - 1968 Ferrari
All time favourite driver & team: Gilles Villeneuve - Lotus
Current favourite driver: Lewis Hamilton
All time most disliked driver & team: Schumacher & his era Ferrari
Current most disliked driver: Button
Best memory from F1: Rindt's winning pursuit of Brabham, Monaco 1970
Worst memory from F1: Any of the deaths are just as bad as the next, but Jo Siffert's affected me badly.

[555-04Q2]

Just some questions that I think would be interesting to see the answers to.

1st favourite driver & team:
All time favourite driver & team:
Current favourite driver:
All time most disliked driver & team:
Current most disliked driver:
Best memory from F1:
Worst memory from F1:

:)

1. Ferrari and Schumacher (what a combination)
2. Ferrari and Alain Prost
3. Massa :up:
4. Montoya (biggest w@nker ever in F1) and Toyota (wasting in money in F1)
5. That "Ice" guy in my red car (overrated and hyped up lazy boy)
6. 2002 season with Ferrari (sensational for Ferrari fans)
7. Imola 1994 (Senna)

[Rollo]

1st favourite driver: Alain Prost
1st favourite team: Those black JPS Lotii

All time favourite driver: Jackie Stewart
All time favourite team: Lotus

Current favourite driver: Lewis Hamilton

All time most disliked driver: It used to be Senna, but after looking at the Japanese GP of 1999 on DVD, Schumacher takes the cake.

All time most disliked team: N/A

Current most disliked driver: Felipe Massa
Best memory from F1: Senna's drive in the rain at Donington.

Worst memory from F1: Gehard Berger's firey exit from the San Marino GP of 89

[Erki]

1st favourite driver & team: Giancarlo Fisichella and Ferrari
All time favourite driver & team: no-one really
Current favourite driver: Kimi Räikkönen, Alexander Wurz
All time most disliked driver & team: Michael Schumacher and Team Schumacher
Current most disliked driver: Fernando Alonso
Best memory from F1: Giancarlo Fisichella winning Brazilian GP 2003
Worst memory from F1: Giancarlo Fisichella not getting to enjoy his first win in the proper way.

[jimclark]

1st favourite driver & team: Jimmy and Lotus
All time favourite driver & team: ^^^^^
Current favourite driver: n/a
All time most disliked driver & team: M Schumacher (respected his ability) & n/a
Current most disliked driver: n/a
Best memory from F1: Rindt chasing down Brabham at Monaco in '70 :)
Worst memory from F1: the frustration David Purley suffered trying to save Roger Williamson, Holland, 1973 ;(

[pettersolberg29]

1st favourite driver & team: Keke Rosberg & Williams

All time favourite driver & team: Mika Hakkinen & BMW

Current favourite driver: Nick Heidfeld

All time most disliked driver & team: Alonso & Ferrari

Current most disliked driver: Robert Kubica

Best memory from F1: Montreal race this year - so many retirements!!

Worst memory from F1: Introduction of the Hungary race in the F1 calendar!

[jimclark]

Just a test...trying to lose those slashes still...

[Rollo]

Actually after Hungary 2007 - Current most disliked driver: Fernando Alonso, who is now officially on my pity list.

I pity the foo'. I pity that scum-driving foo'

[D-Type]

An interesting selection and a very interesting correlation with the writer's ages I suspect.

[BDunnell]

1st favourite driver: Jim Clark, for his mastery of everything he drove at a time when this was getting less normal.

1st favourite team: Tyrrell, but Rob Walker's outfit runs them very close, as do Lotus and Ligier.

All time favourite driver & team: Not sure how this differs from the previous questions?

Current favourite driver: Has to be Lewis Hamilton, I'm afraid. Unimaginative, but there you go.

All time most disliked driver & team: I have never disliked any driver or team. There are some I rate more highly than others, but that's a different question.

Current most disliked driver: See above.

Best memory from F1: Where to start? Of what I've seen in my lifetime, Panis winning in Monaco, Watson's British GP victory, Berger's win at Hockenheim in 1997, the whole of the 2005 Japanese GP, Mansell's pass on Piquet at the 1987 British GP all stand out equally. Of the races I've only ever seen retrospectively, the incredible battles at Monza in 1967 and 1969, and Dijon in 1979, rate highly, and how could I forget the Nürburgring in 1957 and Monaco in 1961? I genuinely can't choose any of those above any of the rest, or indeed a whole host of other moments.

Worst memory from F1: It's not a memory I have, but having seen footage of Tom Pryce's fatal accident, it is truly horrendous.

[ottostreet]

1st favourite driver & team: Mika Hakkinen & McLaren
All time favourite driver & team: Hakkinen & McLaren
Current favourite driver: Kimi Raikkonen
All time most disliked driver & team: I didn't dislike them but Michael Schumacher & Ferrari were "the enemy"
Current most disliked driver: Lewis Hamilton, the jumped little git.
Best memory from F1: Mika Hakkinen overtaking Michael Schumacher at Belgium 2000 to extend his lead in the F1 championship...brilliant.
Worst memory from F1: The day Paulo Ghislimberti died at Monza was my first fatality I witnessed. In terms of race disappointment, the 2001 Spanish GP, Hakkinen drove his heart out for one of his final defeats of his greatest adversary, only to have it robbed on the final lap.

[FIA]

1st favourite driver & team: Lewis Hamilton & McLaren

All time favourite driver & team: Mansell at Williams or Villeneuve at Ferrari

Current favourite driver: Nick Heidfeld

All time most disliked driver & team: Prost or Schumacher at Ferrari

Current most disliked driver: Fernando Alonso

Best memory from F1: Barrichello winning first race

Worst memory from F1: Any Death or Vettel at Fuji (It was so disappointing)

[AAReagles]

1st favourite driver = Jim Clark

1st favourite team = Lotus

All time favourite driver = Dan Gurney (surprise!) ;)

All time favourite team = Williams

Current favourite driver = None

All time most disliked driver = M. Cheatmacher... er... sorry, Schumacher

All time most disliked team = None

Current most disliked driver = None

Best memory from F1 = 1982 Monaco GP (Patrese wins in a wild finish)

Worst memory from F1 = 1989 & 1990 GPs of Japan. Leave it to a couple of overpaid, grossly-inflated egotistical numskulls who had less sense than what God gave to little green apples, to ruin the day(s) for the fans.


Additional Notes:

What I admire about GP racing: it's an international sport excellently blended with various cultures/personalities/cars (i.e. Graham Hill) and in some cases, held at beautiful venues... come rain or shine.


What I detest about GP racing: lack of american interest about the sport. Particularly in regards to anyone willing to operate/finance a team in the series. :down:

[jimclark]

So similar, ehhh...???

[jclab]

1st favourite driver = Keke Rosberg
1st favourite team = Williams
All time favourite driver = Keke Rosberg
All time favourite team = Lotus
Current favourite driver = Nico Rosberg
All time most disliked driver = Senna
All time most disliked team = McLaren
Current most disliked driver = Ralf
Best memory from F1 = Jerez 1997 (JV's WC)
Worst memory from F1 = Zolder 1982 (Gilles) :(