NETFLIX - Schumacher

[Zico]

Your comment is not aimed at Hamilton specifically but all F1 champions. Any motor racing series is also broadly in the crosshairs of your comment. So you are essentially saying all motorsport is crap. And all drivers in those series are privileged few in very limited seats for each of those series.

I think you should stop a moment and think about what you are saying.

If I thought all motorsport was crap, I wouldn't watch it so that is obviously not the case. I love driving, I used to race online, enjoy good racing and the spectacle rather than falling into a driver fan camp like you have.. which I feel affects peoples reasoning, logic and objectivity quite substantially when chatting about F1.
We are obviously different types of fans, I'm just a general motorsport/F1 fan with no particular favourite driver or team but I do tend to back an underdog and watching fresh young talent coming through and doing well pleases me more than a single driver or team totally dominating.

I don't understand how some can gravitate towards a single driver and declare him the best ever, a GOAT etc I find that unfathomable and quite bizarre considering its not a Spec series.

I suspect my lack of reverence comes from racing online against phenomenally quick guys online on a new track and in a new car, being a couple of seconds off the pace even after a couple of hours in despite it feeling and thinking their pace was incredible, world class that they must be aliens but just plugging away and after a spending many more hours (20-30+) finding small chunks here and there through different lines and techniques etc, also optimising car setup and studying them closely I was eventually able to be competitive and be just as quick as they were.

Like their real life counterparts, they are all just mere mortals like you and I and I don't think not looking up to them in reverence is disrespectful.. or has 'dishonoured' them as you put it although I think I understand why you might see it that way.

Although the current cars are the fastest ever, I still find the V10 era battles (ie Schumacher and Alonso) far more spectacular and exciting to watch than even what we have had this year between Lewis than Max. No disrespect to either of them, I guess I'm just still have a big soft spot for the NA soundtrack.