Intellectually, he provides me with entertainment and I want to see his style succeed and the others become more like him. I want to see more JPMs, LHs and KKs and fewer FMs and MWs.
I am not a massive fan of LH the person for instance (despite all my going on about how he is most like me) and I cant stand JP and I am indifferent to KK as a person.
My favourite personalilty is probably MW (he's a mensch!) and I think he should not even be in F1 his driving is so poor sometimes.
... but that's just me.
Intellectually F1 has not much do with intellect in terms of viewing or supporting it
The racing and the competition appeals more to our baser human instincts,
despite some/many of the people working at and for F1, are some of the brighter lights, than the human average
and the F1 cars are one of the better products of the human creativity
And you are right if you say most of the people search for similarities between them and the people they support
(Because we like more the well known than something strange)
This might be the nationality, the ethinic background,
the appearrance
the personality
or we just love/ support someone out of pure opposition to what we "should" support
but I think the most of us are not aware of the reasons why we support, whom we support
I think those decissions are made unconscious,
despite we think we know the reasons , and stand above our instinctive selection
so sorry JJ ;)
I don't think you are the only honest person here
you are one who has reflected over the reasons for your joice of your favourites
I don't know exactly why I support Lewis
It's definitively not the nationality , the background, appearance
It was simply the "Woohoo", I felt as I saw him racing
This boy is so full of live , so refreshing, a pure racer
and his personality (as far as we could know it) is something I like
sometimes a bit naive, fragile & vulnerable, "thinks" sometimes more with his heart than with his head
this is something I miss sometimes in a world of cool & calculating wiseacres
Edited by Bonaventura, 17 December 2010 - 23:02.