I find the fanboy mentality of a lot of F1 fans quite amusing really, the comments under PF1 articles remind me of being back in the playground. Pure mindless hatred for drivers that aren't their chosen ones. The only drivers I have slightly less respect for are the obvious pay-drivers but even then you have somebody like Maldonado who is a pay-driver but won a race in a Williams.
I can imagine! And I can understand it too but in that situation Kimi wasn't blameless either. I'll second EMSC too: great idea for an off-season thread
On my travels of fanboys typing (IMO) I think the worst are certainly the Tifosi (excluding our Tifosi posting here of course), followed by the Hamilton haters, then the Vettel haters which has skyrocketed surprisingly over the last 2 years in my opinion and the Alonso haters in a safe 4th. But the funny thing is with fanboys (like me and others once did), they actually get bored of doing it as it doesn't involve F1 what so ever and the groups you get caught up in just don't want to "let go" if you know what I mean? It's to the point where you couldn't even complement a decent rival beating your favourite on a certain race. Take Austin for example, I would get attacked for complementing Lewis beating Seb and somehow they would say you're not a "true fan of.." BS if I was involved in a group like that, you are not allowed to be humble in defeat but only know superiority completely when "you" win in groups like that. Let's be honest nobody likes being told how to show emotion and thought and neither should they accept it, groups like ours here welcome (mostly) everything being said as we can drag it into the middle ground and partially agree on the matters. Unlike the really, really feral fanboy groups that wish certain drivers "crash into barriers and break their legs" which are funnily enough, starting to get smaller because they're so detatached to the rest of F1 society that other conversations are just white noise to them and they only know of "attack" which is sad and small minded in my opinion. You can easily be a fanboy and get on with 90% of the other fans of F1, we all love the banter when camping in the rain and getting drunk. But for the love of God give credit where it's due or it doesn't make you a fanboy but a bloody spanner!
After Perez said Rosberg is faster than Seb, reckon Mr Checo will be in group Red from now on and Rosberg Blue. Now group Blue will want to see Jenson kick the **** out of Perez on track.
I see where the relationship is coming from, but there's too many exceptions for it to be right. I think if F1 fans only liked one driver, it would work. For example, my 3 favourite drivers are Hamilton, Raikkonen and Button. I don't like Vettel that much, and I tolerate Alonso. According to this I shouldn't like Button with him being big rivals to Hamilton, but I wouldn't like him to lose against Perez next season. I just think there's too many if's and but's with this, and if you like 2 drivers, then your just going in circles following the....circles. This would probably work better for football fans and teams. Considering how many dickheads are die hard football fans are, it probably would work
