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the most polite driver in F1

Started by scarletf12002 , May 16 2010 08:23

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#1 scarletf12002

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 08:23

I was watching the post qualifying interviews yesterday on the BBC and I was wondering who you thought the most polite driver in F1 is today? My vote has to go to Nico Rosberg, he apologised for being in a bad mood but for the rest of the inerview I was thinking if thats a bad mood, what are you like when you are happy(?)
Despite the fact he wasn't feeling brilliant about the result, he still had the good manners to go through with it. His tone and manner didn't suggest that life begins and ends at the race track. WELL DONE NICO!

On the opposite end of the spectrum who is the rudest? I can't really think of anyone that stands out for this one?

#2 Yorkie

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 08:28

Yes there's very little to dislike about Nico Rosberg :up:

#3 ForzaGTR

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 08:34

Hamilton or Kovi

#4 BRK

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 08:37

I guess you can't really tell if someone's rude or polite until you've met them in person,but certainly from the TV interviews Chandhok and Kovalainen seem very polite.

#5 korzeniow

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 08:39

Hamilton or Kovi

Hamilton? The same driver wo said that Kimi hasn't balls? The same who said that Webber will retire? The same who said that Trulli passed him? The same who etc. etc. etc.

:stoned:

#6 Palmero

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 10:30

Karun! Awesome guy.

#7 VoRteX

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 10:35

Hamilton or Kovi

indeed, Hamilton the most polite driver on the grid!
:eek:

de la Rosa is polite

#8 Zoe

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 10:37

I think we as armchair enthusiats can not seriously judge the personality of a driver. There's so much in the atmosphere that cannot be transferred in an interview transcript, we miss the context in which a statement was made etc etc. It is also not possible (for example) to judge from the distance whether a person is arrogant or just shy.

What we can do of course, is have our own personal favourites and dislikes ;) regardless of reality.

Zoe

#9 Yorkie

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 10:43

Hamilton? The same driver wo said that Kimi hasn't balls? The same who said that Webber will retire? The same who said that Trulli passed him? The same who etc. etc. etc.

Someone mentioned Lewis :stoned:

#10 phil1993

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 10:45

Karun is actually my new hero, seems like such a nice guy.

Nico (Rosberg) seems quite nice, like when he was apologising yesterday as you said but I sometimes find him to be a little arrogant

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 10:53

Kovalainen and Rosberg

#12 Don_Humpador

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 10:55

I think we as armchair enthusiats can not seriously judge the personality of a driver. There's so much in the atmosphere that cannot be transferred in an interview transcript, we miss the context in which a statement was made etc etc. It is also not possible (for example) to judge from the distance whether a person is arrogant or just shy.

What we can do of course, is have our own personal favourites and dislikes ;) regardless of reality.

Zoe

Bingo.

And based on that, Chandhok seems like the most polite/nicest guy. Just a normal guy with a chance in F1, in a terrible car, he has sympathy and he's just so cool about everything.

Plus - he's competing with Anthony Davidson for fastest man in Brackley, and he has an awesome Twitter feed.

#13 Tony Matthews

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 10:59

My wife, who hasn't met any F1 drivers, said that she thought that Nico Rosberg was very unassuming. I questioned her ability to judge, but she was adamant, so there you have it. Nico Rosberg is unassuming, by which she probably meant polite.

#14 aditya-now

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:05

Senna, Chandok and Rosberg

#15 MortenF1

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:06

Hamilton? The same driver wo said that Kimi hasn't balls? The same who said that Webber will retire? The same who said that Trulli passed him? The same who etc. etc. etc.

Apart from that with the balls (did he say that?), is any of that rude?!

#16 Bloggsworth

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:09

It used to be a toss-up between John Watson and Bruno Giacomelli...

#17 otoelpiloto

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:09

it has to be nico and pedro,

pedro is that kind of person you take your hats off everytime he speaks

#18 harrows

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:10

Didn't Hamo have a row with some female journo, which later made her cry!?! Not to say that's proof of him being impolite - I just can't imagine Kovi or Rosberg doing something like that..

Edited by harrows, 16 May 2010 - 11:10.

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:13

Polite is boring :wave:

#20 P123

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:16

Didn't Hamo have a row with some female journo, which later made her cry!?! Not to say that's proof of him being impolite - I just can't imagine Kovi or Rosberg doing something like that..

No he didn't. The female journo was from L'Equipe and was anything but polite towards him. Given her manner I somewhat doubt she would know what tears were. But here we are, yet again with a topic which is turning into a Hamilton bashfest filled with fantasies passed off as fact.

As for the topic itself, all drivers are generally polite to the media.

#21 VoRteX

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:19

it has to be nico and pedro,

pedro is that kind of person you take your hats off everytime he speaks

#22 jjcale

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:21

I think we as armchair enthusiats can not seriously judge the personality of a driver.

So we should be slow to criticise ....but it is clear that some are just class individuals.

My favourite: HK, kept his head up dispite being beaten like a drum for a season and a half - hardly ever complained despite (probably justifiably?) getting the short end of quali strategy for most of that time.

This year, he's helping leading a new(?) team and is doing a great job off track, PR wise, with builiding the Lotus brand in F1. Latest example: donating 300,000 (not sure what currency) to charity.... this guy is not earning mega millions compared to others.

... and he's super polite and considerate.

#23 jjcale

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:23

Didn't Hamo have a row with some female journo, which later made her cry!?! Not to say that's proof of him being impolite - I just can't imagine Kovi or Rosberg doing something like that..

Yes but she was being a right bitch...

#24 Jose Mourinho is Special

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:25

Jenson easily

#25 Alx09

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:28

Chandok, Rosberg, Kova

Edited by Alx09, 16 May 2010 - 11:28.

#26 undersquare

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:49

They're all more polite than us

#27 lokiman

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:51

Kova, Button, Hamilton and Nico are all very polite and composed in interviews, but Karun is probably the most obviously nice and polite guy that I've ever seen interviewed in F1.

#28 kismet

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 11:56

Polite isn't the same as nice, jovial, likeable etc. Even the douchest douche that ever douched can be excruciatingly and unfailingly polite while still retaining his general doucheness.

That said, Rosberg does seem like a fairly polite chap but I don't really watch enough driver interviews to know if he's a stand-out.

Much of what goes around in sports, entertainment etc. would be considered horribly rude and inappropriate, not to mention incredibly unprofessional, in 'normal' world. I'm not too bothered but sticklers for etiquette would be...

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 01:08

No he didn't. The female journo was from L'Equipe and was anything but polite towards him. Given her manner I somewhat doubt she would know what tears were. But here we are, yet again with a topic which is turning into a Hamilton bashfest filled with fantasies passed off as fact.

As for the topic itself, all drivers are generally polite to the media.

Tell me more

#30 VicR

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 01:22

Fernando Alonso, Luca said so. Case closed.

#31 Leyser

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 01:33

I've never seen/heard Heiki say anything negative. My choice.

#32 LH08WDC

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 01:37

Kovy. SPEED said that he recently donated £300,000 in Elton John's AIDS foundation when no other celebrity (most of which are much richer than him) would. Such a nice guy.

#33 turbotomus

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 01:40

Ohhhhh yeah rosberg is definitely the most polite driver......... bs
proof:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related
at around 34 seconds

#34 Jimisgod

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 02:04

Hamilton or Kovi

Heikki may be right though.

#35 fastlegs

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 03:07

IMO, I'd say Mark Webber is the most polite driver in F1 based on his pre and post race interviews.

#36 Archybald

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 03:22

According to my mother ... Jenson seems very nice so does rosberg. But she dosnt like schumacher lol.

I think we should all get our mothers opinions for this thread. lol

#37 RedBaron

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 03:29

My vote has to go to Nico Rosberg, he apologised for being in a bad mood but for the rest of the inerview I was thinking if thats a bad mood, what are you like when you are happy(?)
Despite the fact he wasn't feeling brilliant about the result, he still had the good manners to go through with it. His tone and manner didn't suggest that life begins and ends at the race track. WELL DONE NICO!

Nonsense, Nico wasn't visibly in a bad mood, he was trying to put it on and to make sure he succeeded he told us he was in a bad mood, he wasn't sincerely apologising for it. All part of his post-session I could have done better speech.

This is what I just posted in Rosberg v Schumacher.

Rosberg is making himself look stupid. He puts in good performances, but he's trying to play us all for fools. I for one am so tired of hearing after every session 'I could have been faster'. When will he actually be *faster*.

It's pathetic. I'm not taking away the fact he has finished higher than Schumacher in many sessions/results. Just when will he say 'this is the maximum I could do today', he can't go faster, whether that be because he just can't or because he isn't capable of hooking it up when he needs to, it doesn't matter the result is the same he doesn't live up to his own hype.

Sure we believed him in the first race, maybe even into Australia, but now it's laughable hearing him try to convince us he could have gone faster. This time after qualifying he even believed he could have got pole...

Nico can be very polite though, but my vote goes to Chandock without question.

#38 Muz Bee

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 04:31

Nonsense, Nico wasn't visibly in a bad mood, he was trying to put it on and to make sure he succeeded he told us he was in a bad mood, he wasn't sincerely apologising for it. All part of his post-session I could have done better speech.

Yeah whatever. Definitely is certainly real polite but I'm coming around to the view that maybe he doesn't have the bad-ass hard man core that makes Schumacher and Alonso such hard racers. Harden up Nico, and that may mean losing a bit of the nice guy image sadly.

#39 Tolyngee

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 05:31

Ohhhhh yeah rosberg is definitely the most polite driver......... bs
proof:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related
at around 34 seconds

You're #1!?

Isn't that sincere admiration?

#40 Buckethead

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 06:18

Hamilton isn't that polite towards his own team...

I say Kovalainen

#41 Feanaro

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 10:19

Ohhhhh yeah rosberg is definitely the most polite driver......... bs
proof:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related
at around 34 seconds

i think almost every driver will or has had a similar reaction in their f1 career.

My vote would go for karun and pedro :up:

cheers

#42 Tufty

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 10:28

Karun Chandhok.

And he's a down-to-earth, modest guy as well!! He doesn't suit the stereotype for F1... certainly not that of a champion. Pity, it would be nice to see him competing with the best on more equal terms.

Nice guys finish last, I suppose