Your all-time favourite drivers

Mansell was my first favourite driver.

 

Good lad!!!

 

Have lots of nostalgic memories of watching Our Nige!

 

Same here! I was lucky enough to be at Silvetstone in '92 and was part of the shameful (bloody fantastic) track invasion.

I so miss Nige. The king of excuses, but a bloody fantastic racer. Such emotion, such determination and one of the very few to not be crushed by Senna. I miss those days.

 

Wish I'd been there in 92! Mansell had a great fighting spirit. I read his autobiography recently and he had to overcome a lot of adversity, his family weren't keen on him racing, and he had to deal with a lot of difficult situations, didn't know of any of this at the time.

 

All i remember mansell for was whining about not fitting in the mclaren, and blaming mclaren for it, when in reality, he was just too fat.

 

All time favourite driver.
Gilles Villeneuve

Favourite drivers who are currently on the grid.
Fernando Alonso
Jenson Button
Felipe Massa
Sergio Perez

Drivers who are not on the grid.
Kimi Raikkonen
Juan Pablo Montoya
Giancarlo Fisichella

Other drivers who I have not really seen live but still resonate with me.
de Portago
Alain Prost
Jim Clark
Alberto Ascari

 

The car was a pile of crap too. Mansell thought it would kill him.

 

He could have so easily failed and become nothing. The same determination that took him all the way to F1 was the same determination that made him a thoroughly determined and exciting racer.

Had he been Brazilian or Italian, he would be held (I believe) in higher esteem with British people today.

 

Can't you let them be? They are better of in the teams they are in right now... no need to argue...

 

Can't you let them be? They are better of in the teams they are in right now... no need to argue...

 

How silly.
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Moving on…
Any list of my 'favourite' drivers very much includes their personality as well as their driving; here's a quick list, which does not include those whom I've only admired on track, or anyone who was previously a favourite whom I've since come to know better (such as Nigel Mansell):

Jim Clark
Sir Stirling Moss
Graham Hill
Damon Hill
Mika Hakkinen
Juan Pablo Montoya

There are also several candidates on today's grid, which I believe includes some of the greatest number of top-talented drivers ever found in F1 at the same time; but it would be wrong for me to include them in this list.

 

All time favourite driver.
Ayrton Senna

Favourite drivers who are currently on the grid.
Lewis Hamilton
Heikki Kovalainen
Jaime Alguersuari
Vitaly Petrov
Pastor Maldonado


Drivers who are not on the grid.
Juan-Pablo Montoya
Mario Andretti
Ronnie Peterson
David Coulthard
Damon Hill

Other drivers who I have not seen live but still resonate with me.
Jackie Stewart
Stirling Moss

I'm sure there must be others...

Actually, if I had to boil it down to a top 3 in the World... Ever!
Ayrton Senna
Lewis Hamilton
Juan-Pablo Montoya

 

Well put, Julius. I think Prime Minister Cameron was looking for a reaction.

 

I have to agree. It was a stupid comment out of context and unacceptable. Sorry to anyone who offended.

 

I agree. Sorry mate if I pissed you off.

 

Favourite all time drivers.... Hmmmm

Hill (Jr as I'm in my 20's )
Hakkinen
Montoya
Button
Hamilton

With special mentions to Kobayashi, di Resta and Kimi Ice Cream

 

No offense taken. We all do it to some degree, eh?

And oh the excitement of watching Mansell taking on Senna and Prost. Great days.

 

Can't put my finger on it, but something about Mansell rubbed me up the wrong way, preferred Prost to all others until suzuka 89 (on lap 46 he taught me cynicism and hypocrisy).

 

I loved watching Mansell racing on the track. At the time I was fairly young so either didn't know or didn't care about what happened off the track.

I just loved watching it.