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    Default MS most popular Ferrari driver ever

    <<That is the finding of a survey conducted by the Italian daily sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, which said 49 per cent of the 16,887 readers who responded voted for the recently departed German.>>

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    he could be the most unpopular driver ever too you know,just a matter of opininon
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    not in a German poll either,maybe a world wide poll
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    I think MS will probably be the most popular F1 driver ever.

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    No surprise here. Of course it also helps that he's the most recent world champion driving a Ferrari. And also he drove very recently, there's 25 years since Villeneuve last raced.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erki View Post
    No surprise here. Of course it also helps that he's the most recent world champion driving a Ferrari. And also he drove very recently, there's 25 years since Villeneuve last raced.
    exactly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ioan View Post
    <<That is the finding of a survey conducted by the Italian daily sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, which said 49 per cent of the 16,887 readers who responded voted for the recently departed German.>>

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    Hardly a surprise, Michael won 5 crowns for Ferrari, more than any other driver.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erki View Post
    And also he drove very recently, there's 25 years since Villeneuve last raced.
    Exactly. I wonder how many of those who completed the poll (online?) ever saw Villeneuve race, or know how loved he was/is by Ferrari fans and F1 fans the world over.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1 View Post
    Exactly. I wonder how many of those who completed the poll (online?) ever saw Villeneuve race, or know how loved he was/is by Ferrari fans and F1 fans the world over.
    There is a 50/50 chance I would say.
    Maybe only half of them saw GV drive for Ferrari but all of them saw MS drive.
    Also the achievements of these two can't be compared.
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    I can't find this poll on www.gazzetta.it it must be an old one (last year ?) pity

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    We must also consider that in Italy most people over 40 years don't have internet access, or they don't use it everyday. Otherwise Gilles would have been much closer to Michael

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    Ferrari's register of drivers is a who's who of Grand Prix racing: Ascari, Villoresi, Gonzalez, Taruffi, Trintignant, Farina, Hawthorn, Castellotti, Collins, Fangio, von Trips, Hill, Behra, Brooks, Ginther, Baghetti, Bandini, Scarfiotti, Surtees, Rodriquez, Amon, Ickx, Regazzoni, Andretti, Merzario, Lauda, Reutemann, Villeneuve, Scheckter, Pironi, Tambay, Arnoux, Alboreto, Berger, Mansell, Prost, Alesi, Schumacher and now Raikkonen are just some of them
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    Riccardo Patrese - 256GPs 1977-1993

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    Lest we forget that in these surveys, the most recent tends to be flavour of the month, which skews the result somewhat. A couple of years ago, the BBC conducted a poll to find the most influential musician of all time.

    Robbie Williams was in the top 10 above Mozart...'nuff said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fizzicist View Post
    Lest we forget that in these surveys, the most recent tends to be flavour of the month, which skews the result somewhat. A couple of years ago, the BBC conducted a poll to find the most influential musician of all time.

    Robbie Williams was in the top 10 above Mozart...'nuff said.
    For sure they didn't do it in Austria!
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    Quote Originally Posted by harsha View Post
    he could be the most unpopular driver ever too you know,just a matter of opininon

    You are probably right. Michael did tend to polarise opinion like that.

    In a few years, I suspect that Gilles Villeneuve will be right up with MS again in the popularity stakes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by futuretiger9 View Post
    In a few years, I suspect that Gilles Villeneuve will be right up with MS again in the popularity stakes.
    Could be true if GV would still be among us and able to win at least 1 championship, but it isn't the case.
    In a few years the tifosi will still remember MS but fewer an fewer will know about GV, thus your point is somewhat mute.
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    The most popular by quite a margin, and the best by even bigger margin. The Greatest
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    Quote Originally Posted by ioan View Post
    Could be true if GV would still be among us and able to win at least 1 championship, but it isn't the case.
    In a few years the tifosi will still remember MS but fewer an fewer will know about GV, thus your point is somewhat mute.

    Point taken. I suppose I'm just being an old romantic!

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    What is popularity anyway? Do they go on streets and ask people, who is the first F1 driver who comes into their minds? It's logical that they maybe only know Schumacher because he gets talked about so often - wait 25 years and he's not nearly as popular as he's now.

    And you really can't say who's the most popular Ferrari driver ever. To get to know who is the most popular Ferrari driver ever, polls should have been made all the time, at least every year and then when you take time to study the results, then you can come to the final conclusion.
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