Motorsport.com Most Popular Driver

[markabilly]

(1) Adriana sutil-(is very popular and a fav of lewie)
(2) Me-(you don't really think that I would limit myself to only one moniker-mystery ID of "the Stig", do you?)
(3) Easy Drifter-Great jokes sometimes, sometimes NOT
(4) Jim Hall-greatest car builder who taught the aero way to F1, and drove a few races there
(5) Sato-He greatly contributed to making other drivers look much better
(6) Rubens-He greatly contributed to making me look great
(7) Ide-He greatly contributed to making every driver who raced F1 look like the greatest ever
(8) Alex Yuong-In second place behind Ide, for making other drivers look great
(9) dan Gurney-loved his gurney flap

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Mansell
Schumi
Senna
Clark
Nuvolari
Gilles
JPM
Kimi
Alesi
Sato

(anybody spot a theme?)

[F1boat]

M Schumacher
Hakkinen
Alonso
Mansell
Senna
Raikkonen
Button
Hill
Prost
Coulthard

[UltimateDanGTR]

I assume this is most popular with me, and bearing in mind this is not a list of who I support/supported most:

1. Juan Montoya-brilliant character!
2. Graham Hill-what a man!
3. Nigel Mansell-despite his disadvantage of a weight adding moustache, he still managed to become champ-eventually
4. James Hunt-another big character
5. Ayrton-big head and great racing skill, loads of balls and ruthless as hell. ultimate racing driver.
6-David coulthard-funny scottish accent, genuine nice guy
7-Jackie stewart-funny scottish accent, brilliant british ace
8-Michael schumacher-I vill vin at all coztz
9-Giovanni Lavaggi-Brilliantly awful racing driver at whom I laughed at mainer times
10-Yuji Ide-not only the same as what markabilly said, but always made me on the endge of my seat whenever i saw him within 100 feet of another car! classic driver!

[Triumph]

1) Lewis Hamilton
2) Damon Hill
3) Jenson Button
4) Nigel Mansell
5) Stirling Moss
6) Michael Schumacher
7) Sebastian Vettel
8) Juan Pablo Montoya
9) Alexander Wurz
10) Fernando Alonso

Subject to change, depending on what mood I'm in at the time and what the weather is like outside.

[jens]

It could be possible to select ten drivers for the preference list of current drivers, but a list of favourites of all times is overwhelmingly difficult, since for most of the existence of Formula One I didn't have to possibility to follow it. Of course sympathies may arise in retrospect, when studying the history of racing, but it's not really the same as cheering for a current driver and getting direct emotions live.

Anyway, Top10 list of drivers, who I have seen racing in live coverage and had the possibility to cheer for them live:
1) Trulli
2) Alesi
3) M. Schumacher
4) Sato
5) Vettel
6) Glock
7) Massa
8) Hamilton
9) Fisichella
10) Tuero :

Very difficult choice and needed to leave several guys out, who could have easily been in Top10 as well.

[pettersolberg29]

1) Nick Heidfeld
2) Sutil
3) Glock
4) Sarrazin
5) Fangio
6) Moss
7) Stewart
8) Button
9) Hakkinen
10) Webber

[ioan]

Just goes to show how short the memory (and knowledge) of most F1 'fans' is.

[Saint Devote]

1. Jody Scheckter
2. Peter Revson
3. Nigel Mansell
4. Clay Regazzoni
5. Niki Lauda
6. Jochen Mass
7. James Hunt
8. Jenson Button
9. Johnny Herbert
10. Michael Schumacher

[Saint Devote]

So far most posts seem to be very oriented to current or very recent drivers.
I will not post a list but like Taz think Stewart should be there. Also Moss, Jimmy Clark and certainly Gilles Villeneuve who was revered in most of Europe, more than in Canada.

But remember this is not a list if a person thinks is the best - it is about our FAVORITE drivers. Therefore it has to be skewed towards those we know since becoming motor racing fans.

If, for example I had to list those I consider the GREATEST ever, Jim Clark would be at the top without any equivocation or doubt.

Today, with the sport the way it is, it would have been just fantastic to have Clark, Senna, Villeneuve around to comment. Such is the sadness unfortunately unique to our great sport of grand prix racing.