Your Favorite Team/Driver

[Giancarlo]

Unfortunately, my favorite drivers are going to NASCAR

I've cheered for Villeneuve & Montoya thru thick and thin. I like drivers that drive on the aggressive/risky side and say what they mean PR be damned. I can relate to that.

I'll be watching Piquet Jr. very closely. His performances in GP2 were mind boggling - he was always attacking and none of that 'lets play it safe' crap. He's destined for greatness.

My fav team is Red Bull: I drink so much of that stuff I should see a doctor and I really respect how much they support nearly every form of racing world-wide. They're making racing an enjoyable enterprise whereas some teams run things as a pure business = BORING.

[a fan of the red team]

my favorite team is red, the blue and yellow, and the silver arrow....
the colour of bmw, toyota and honda looks all plain white... not as flashy as the blue and yellow, or as shiny as the silver arrows and of course the red car looks so good on tv..... williams cosworth has a good colour scheme too and a nice name too but they are not my favourite... as for the others, i don't really notice them.... seriously, i'm speaking the truth...

my favorite driver is kimi.... not a schumi fan but you must admit... even a non f1 fan knows his name.. at least from my part of the world.... the others they have never heard of before.... okay, cheers everyone...

[gubarak]

honda.. I love their cars, their motorcyles, even their robots.! I really respect for their great engineering and design philosophy in every product they make..

it is rumored that some rival said to a honda engineer that "we race to sell cars, but you sell cars to race".. it is probably true, you know.. they love to race and I believe they'll be on top like in the past..

as my favorite driver, well, I love kimi, but I really loved jpm.. jenson also, he drives like prost ...and senna, all time favorite.

[yin]

driver:jacky ickx,kimi
team:Mclaren,Williams
jacky won many time at lemans with my favourite car manufacturer(porsche)it's a shame that he didn't win the WDC it was awesome when he fight against Stewart on or off the track
i like kimi just because he is very clam,cool,and his smooth driving style

[f1italia]

I'm a big fan of Alain Prost, Schumacher, and Kimi Raikkonen, for there calm cool and smooth style behind the wheel. Prost and Raikkonen can take a bad car and turn it into a winner.

I also like Lewis Hamilton. I know he will become a great champion someday.

My favorite teams are, Ferrari, Mclaren, and Renault.

[Roland Ehnström]

f1italia, do you realise no-one has posted in this thread since the year 2006?

[f1italia]

f1italia, do you realise no-one has posted in this thread since the year 2006?

I did not want to create a new one. I thought I would bring it back to life for new members.

[Belatti]

I'm a big fan of Alain Prost, and Kimi Raikkonen, for there calm cool and smooth style behind the wheel. Prost and Raikkonen can take a bad car and turn it into a winner...

I can talk about cars, but when I talk abou tdrivers I´m HIGHLY biased. Sorry
Prost was calm and smooth, but he couldn´t take a bad car and turn it into a winner. Just see 1991 season results. Then, take a look at 1993 season results and you will see who CAN WIN 5 TIMES with an underpowered sock.

[Roland Ehnström]

f1italia, do you realise no-one has posted in this thread since the year 2006?

I did not want to create a new one. I thought I would bring it back to life for new members.

Fair enough.

So, the driver I find myself rooting for the most at the moment is Lewis. I also very much like Heikki (ever since the Race of Champions 2004), Nico, Robert and Sebastian (Vettel). These five drivers are all young and hungry, immensely talented, AND seem like genuine nice blokes. I hope they won't disappoint me in the future like a couple others have done (guess who!).

Going back to the days before I was born, I guess the driver I respect the most is Jim Clark. Others are Bruce McLaren and Jack Brabham, both of whom who managed to combine great success as drivers and car builders, with a very likable and relaxed attitude. I also hold symapthies for Chris Amon, the best driver in F1 never to win a Grand Prix, and Stirling Moss, the best driver never to become world champion. Speaking of Moss one must of course also mention Fangio, who was a great champion and a great man.

[Ciro Pabón]

Well, I don't want to be disrespectful, but my favorite drivers are the ones that still don't race in F1. Sure I know the oldies (I'm one!) but here are the drivers that I like:

- Paul Di Resta and Jamie Green from F3 Euroseries. Di Resta is notable, even if now he's interred (like Green) in German DTM. Green is starting to win there, the last two races were a treat for me, what a way to drive. I wonder what Tom (our Tom) thinks of Green.

Jamie Green


- Romain Grosjean, which I remember from Formula Renault. I saw his first two races at Asian GP2. Nice way to win.

- Marco Ardigò, the best karter in the world right now. I've never seen a guy hold his inner rear wheel at such constant height, I can't. The thing I like the most about his driving is that he twitches the wheel on the exit, the same way I do (something people has always nagged me about).

Ardigò winning the World Championship


Oh, and Ralph De Palma is the best open wheel driver in history, in case you haven't heard me ranting about him... I think he's better than Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Michael Schumacher and Bruce Lee (who is better than Chuck Norris). He was almost as good as Juan Pablo Montoya, who is the driver with the largest heart in the Universe, beyond time and space.

De Palma: an american hero, better than all europeans put together


As for teams, the best team in the world is mine: I enjoy it the most. I simply cannot be a fan of a corporation: the day the british teams stopped using the national colours, they lost my heartfelt support.

Lotus in British green: groovy!

[thestigm5]

Either Mclaren mercedes MP4-23 and Lewis Hamilton/Heikki Kovaleinen.Or BMW Sauber F1.08. with Nick Heifeld/Robert Kubica.

I've always liked BMW. I only like McLaren because of their drivers. I'm inclined not to like Mercedes because of their unsporstmanlike actions in DTM against another unrelated favorite, Audi.

[crbassassin]

Team: Mclaren
Drivers: Alonso, Prost, Lauda, Kovalainen

[freedom_honda]

Team: early 90s Honda Powered McLaren and Current Honda Racing F1
Drivers: Senna and Jenson Button

[Ray]

Ralph DePalma retired from racing after a career in which he competed in 2,889 races, winning an astonishing 2,557.

Good God! That's absolutely amazing! That's a win record of 88%!

[HKS]

Team Ferrari:Ferrari, Renault (specially the old Renault turbo powered engines)
Drivers: Fernando Alonso, Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher