Top 10 Most Annoying Drivers of all Time

Hamilton. He's fake in almost everything. 

I don't think he's fake, I think he tries wayyyyy to hard to please everyone and say something but nothing, which is when you get accidents like "slums". Hence best fans, blessed its all simple stuff that is something but nothing around the track. 

I'm surprised and slightly miffed both my childhood hero (Mansell) and my favourite driver of all time (Hamilton) appear on a lot of people's lists. I think the problem is they are both easily misunderstood and LH44 especially interpreted as disingenuous.

 

Anyway my List:

 

1. M Schumacher - Far too arrogant and got away with murder in AUS 94. Was crazy talented but had no class.

2. J Villeneuve - Too Cocky for his own good. Seems to pop up every few months to have a go at someone.

3. M Verstappen - Spoilt Brat who expects everyone to jump out of his way because he is the chosen one. Needs to grow up.

4. S Vettel - Less his personality but more the fact that he expects to treated in the same category as the greats when he won 4 titles in a Newey car with no opposition.

5. N Rosberg - Basically this one is for thinking he was in the same continent of talent as LH, or that he wasn't gifted the 16 title by reliability failures on the other side of the garage.

6. D Coulthard - For being Wet and never fighting to actually win the title. Everytime Ron said 'Let Mika past' he cow towed without a fight.

7. N Piquet - Basically a git who fluked 3 titles, was generally a bastard (Comments about Mansell's wife especially).

8. R Schumacher - For living off Micheal's coat tails....

9. A Prost - For all the Political skulduggery, getting Pole moved by Balestre at Suzuka 90, for stealing Mansell's chassis in Silverstone 90 etc  

Is surprised Hamilton and Mansell are on ANYONE's list, then gives a list including most of the top 10 successful drivers of all time?   

Sorry, do you hate people for being amazing and yet humble?

I do well not hate but people who are so good at what they do that pretty much everyone knows they are amazing without ever needing to blow their horn annoy me to no end because you cant really fault them for anything... Forces one to face his own mediocrity at its full brunt, cant even hide behind 'well at least I am a decent guy' excuse...

Edited by Oho, 11 January 2019 - 13:12.

Can someone please define "Annoying"

Scott Speed 

Can someone please define "Annoying"

Pisses me off is some way.

Edited by thuGG, 11 January 2019 - 16:01.

Sorry, do you hate people for being amazing and yet humble?

Everytime Ron said 'Let Mika past' he cow towed without a fight.

I'm puzzled.  Is cow towing some bizarre sort of rural sport?  I know country folk are a bit weird, so maybe this fits in with cheese rolling, dwile flonking and morris dancing?

Juan Pablo Montoya
Jos Verstappen

Max Verstappen
Sebastian Vettel
Pastor Maldonado
Ralf Schumacher
Nigel Mansell
Nelson Piquet Jr
Jenson Button (BALANCE! - actually it was just his constant bitching about Balance that annoyed me, I like him otherwise )
Fernando Alonso
Johnny Herbert
CHRISTIAN F*in KLIEN ughhhhhhhhhhhhh

It's funny how with a best driver thread, I always have a good ponder over all pf the options. Over the years, however, a select few have really, really annoyed me for one reason or another that are always easier to remember.

Michael Schumacher

Eddie Irvine

Lewis Hamilton

Sebastian Vettel

Romain Grosjean

Paul Di Resta

Jacques Villeneuve 

Juan Pablo Montoya

David Coulthard (as a driver at least)

Edited by Jordan199, 11 January 2019 - 19:37.

I had a sudden memory - Markus Winkelhock actually led the 2007 Euro GP in the rain in his first, and only, F1 start. Now that's annoying. If someone as anonymous as Winkelhock could find himself in a seat - in a race - and actually lead - Why can't I?!?!? (Yeah, I know the answer...don't bother reminding me...)

And as luck would have it - I still have this beauty saved off... for obvious reasons. Now I ask, how many other lunatics would have anything related to the Spyker F1 team lying around their hard drives???

Edited by aserapig, 11 January 2019 - 20:20.

I'm puzzled.  Is cow towing some bizarre sort of rural sport?

It is, we do it here in the Netherlands all the time.

Winning towers celebrate among the bovine participants.

And the winning lady cow gets to go for a swim.

Edited by Nonesuch, 11 January 2019 - 19:41.

Ok, I'll add something to this topic. I have a standing spat with 3 personalities that actively compete in the 60+ championships I follow annually.

1 is one of the all time greats. 1 is an abhorrently lucky slice of bread. 1 is an Instagram meltdown menace to Racing sanity.

vile

Juan Pablo Montoya
 

according to Marko yesterday (on motorsport.de) he also lost the F3000 title on purpose:

https://de.motorspor...rloren/4322299/

Probably says more about Marko's mindset than anything else.

Montoya's point that the gearing was simply off and that overtaking was therefore all but impossible sounds, well, like something you see in pretty much every racing series from time to time.

The burger bit rings true.

Jenson Button (BALANCE! - actually it was just his constant bitching about Balance that annoyed me, I like him otherwise )

Is surprised Hamilton and Mansell are on ANYONE's list, then gives a list including most of the top 10 successful drivers of all time?   

Well I was just giving my honest opinion. It is interesting how some people see the same drivers entirely differently, Hamilton is seen by either Genuine or completely fake, Mansell as a determined fighter or a whiner. 

Similarly with my List everbody has qualities they value more, to me qualities like dishonesty, cheating, pettiness will always rile me and overshadow any talent however great. Others are less bothered by the negatives and will always admire the Schumacher/Verstappen's for their talent despite their downsides.

Also the top guys are always to make more of an impression either positively or negatively. Tarso Marques or Zsolt Baumgartner might be really annoying but I have never seen enough of either to notice!!! 

according to Marko yesterday (on motorsport.de) he also lost the F3000 title on purpose:

 

https://de.motorspor...rloren/4322299/

 

The problem is, Darth Helmut is one of the most annoying F1 non-driver personalities I have ever come across 

Well I was just giving my honest opinion. It is interesting how some people see the same drivers entirely differently, Hamilton is seen by either Genuine or completely fake, Mansell as a determined fighter or a whiner. 

 

Similarly with my List everbody has qualities they value more, to me qualities like dishonesty, cheating, pettiness will always rile me and overshadow any talent however great. Others are less bothered by the negatives and will always admire the Schumacher/Verstappen's for their talent despite their downsides.

 

Also the top guys are always to make more of an impression either positively or negatively. Tarso Marques or Zsolt Baumgartner might be really annoying but I have never seen enough of either to notice!!! 

I get you, I just thought it was funny in the way it was framed. 

The problem is, Darth Helmut is one of the most annoying F1 non-driver personalities I have ever come across 

He was an F1 driver, and so qualifies to be listed (as we are talking about "all time" here). All that remains is to decide whether annoying behaviour years after the driving career qualifies. If it does, he is right up there and could even unite the forum on this issue.

Can someone please define "Annoying"

"Beat my favourite driver" would probably do it.

Yep was gonna say Ticktum. I hardly even follow feeder series so the amount of times I've already encountered that arrogance of his speaks volumes. 

I don't remember ever thinking "I hope this guy doesn't make it to F1" on character alone.

Edited by Lights, 12 January 2019 - 21:23.

All I have to say is a certain drivers is dam lucky I don't come from a southern London suburb as if it did he would be right up there.

One thing though I have never been able to watch Toto without thinking he would suddenly turn into this guy

Edited by kraduk, 12 January 2019 - 22:03.

The problem is, Darth Helmut is one of the most annoying F1 non-driver personalities I have ever come across 

Erm he was a driver, its how he got his dodgy eye. I'm surprised nobody voted for him actually.

He was an F1 driver, and so qualifies to be listed (as we are talking about "all time" here). All that remains is to decide whether annoying behaviour years after the driving career qualifies. If it does, he is right up there and could even unite the forum on this issue.

if we were to start doing that, I can add a bunch more names to the list. I'm counting this as "during the driving career"  

Erm he was a driver, its how he got his dodgy eye. I'm surprised nobody voted for him actually.

See above  . Good points. 

Sorry, do you hate people for being amazing and yet humble?

1. Did you think my reply was actually legit considering my post as a whole?

2. You can find someone annoying without hating them

"Beat my favourite driver" would probably do it.

and Neymar.

Got it wrong. Irvine never beat anyone and he is the worse.

I will have to check the records but I'm pretty sure he didn't finish last in every race he competed in and at some point will have finished in front of every other driver on the grid (he won a few races) so that statement can't be true 

Is it just me or is Gosjean so far ahead of all the other drivers in terms of being annoying that it is simply ridiculous?

https://youtu.be/tPr5khO86Eg?t=74

Edited by FordFiesta, 17 January 2019 - 17:56.

I remember reading an interview with Ricardo Zonta where he described an incident in Melbourne 1999 where he'd come to dinner in the motorhome late because he was caught up in an interview or a debrief or something, sat down with his food which Villeneuve promptly snatched off the table and threw in the bin to "teach him some manners".

Imagine trying to play psychological games like that with your rookie team mate at a struggling new team and thinking that this is how you show leadership.

Imagine being Jacques Villeneuve.

Mansell, Irvine, Villeneuve, Alonso, Webber, Sutil, Hamilton, Rosberg. 

Edit: and Trulli for those goddamned Trulli-trains

Edited by BRK, 18 January 2019 - 16:56.

I remember reading an interview with Ricardo Zonta where he described an incident in Melbourne 1999 where he'd come to dinner in the motorhome late because he was caught up in an interview or a debrief or something, sat down with his food which Villeneuve promptly snatched off the table and threw in the bin to "teach him some manners".

 

Imagine trying to play psychological games like that with your rookie team mate at a struggling new team and thinking that this is how you show leadership.

 

Imagine being Jacques Villeneuve.

I remember reading a while ago that Villeneuve stole Frentzen's lunch. However, looks like JV managed to be successul in destabilizing HHF, at least initially. That and considering some Patrick Head's harsh words, Frentzen must have thought that where the hell did he end up being...

Christian Horner and Helmut Marko must feature highly if we take the question literally. 

Yes exactly. Did he use "I got no grip" too often?

That was Bourdais. relentless. 

Oooh, interesting thread! Well, I might as well have a go...

1. Felipe Massa

2. Nigel Mansell

3. Jenson Button

4. Nelson Piquet

5. Alain Prost

6. Mark Webber

7. Romain Grosjean

8. Jolyon Palmer

9. Pastor Maldonado

10.  Michael Andretti

All of the above have annoyed me at some point 

What's the point of making a list of drivers, without giving any indication of why you find them annoying?

I remember reading an interview with Ricardo Zonta where he described an incident in Melbourne 1999 where he'd come to dinner in the motorhome late because he was caught up in an interview or a debrief or something, sat down with his food which Villeneuve promptly snatched off the table and threw in the bin to "teach him some manners".

Imagine trying to play psychological games like that with your rookie team mate at a struggling new team and thinking that this is how you show leadership.

Imagine being Jacques Villeneuve.

Sauce?

I thought it was Damon Hills chicken he nicked back in '96. As for 'being Jacques Villeneuve'... he's on record saying he used to play mind games and went out of his way to destroy Frentzen.

The problem with Villeneuve is he's too honest. If you think the rest of these drivers are very different, particularly the World Champions, then I'd say your way off the mark.

They are selfish, ego driven bastards. Thats why they are champions. Thats why people like Sir Frank and Patrick hired 'those types'.

It ain't just Villeneuve.

I do not think that being honest to others about yourself being a nasty person is much better, if at all better than hiding the fact that you are a nasty person and letting people find out in their own time. 

Do you honestly think that Mika or Kimi played these kind of games ? I think it is fair to say that many champions did, but I do not think that all of them did. 

I also don't think Schumacher stole anyone's lunch. He was much more organized. His team-mate knew contractually, who he was, with no more need to play stupid games.

Edited by THEWALL, 19 January 2019 - 23:17.

M.Schumacher

Formula E as such

Senna
everybody else Schumacher
everybody Verstappen
Barrichello
Massa
Heidfeld
Button
Sato (only in IndyCar)
 

I do not think that being honest to others about yourself being a nasty person is much better, if at all better than hiding the fact that you are a nasty person and letting people find out in their own time.

Do you honestly think that Mika or Kimi played these kind of games ? I think it is fair to say that many champions did, but I do not think that all of them did.