Lewis Hamilton & his dad
Sure he's had one of the most prolific and successful starts to a career in the history of F1 and is no doubt a fierce and determined competitor, but...he's no sportsman.
He's a smug, arrogant, lying, precocious, precious, dangerous, midget twat.
He didn't deserve his title in 2008 and spent a high proportion of it whining about being victimised by the Stewards whilst driving like a mad ejit and running people off the road.
Plus when you throw his dad in to the equation, the smug factor goes off the scale. He's also quite sinister. It's like he's the Sith Lord and Lewis is his apprentice.
While I realise that a high proportion of F1 drivers are rich (or sons of rich) men indulging themselves and it takes a large amount of ego and confidence to make it to the top level of any sport, that doesn't mean that sportsmanship and respect isn't important.
He certainly isn't alone in his ways. Schumacher, Senna, Prost and Mansell were all divas but none of them (apart from Schumacher, the cheating robot) rubbed me up the worng way. I think the smugness is what does it.
Hopefully his poor 2009 season may have humbled him a bit, but I don't hold out much hope.
(Megamoss, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 3:04, 5 replies)

I'd just like to add/ask -
When did you last see an F1 driver with a personality? Hamilton seems to be the latest in a long and vegetative line . . .
(The Jannie, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 10:58, closed)

Jenson Button
does appear to be a decent sort of bloke. And as for personalities, well, there's Eddie Irvine for a start. It may not have been a particularly pleasant personality, but as least he had one.

Mansell was a doughball though, and as for the Finns, words fail me. Hakkinen, Raikkonen et al are as dull as ditchwater.

Lots of Finns seem to be like this though. Remember when Liverpool won the UEFA Champions League a few years back? The players were jumping about in ecstatic celebration, except for Sami Hyypiä, who looked at best vaguely happy. The sort of vague pleasedness one would expect if he'd just filled in a difficult crossword clue or something!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 12:51, closed)

Yeah...
The Finns do tend to be a bit Robotic. But while Raikkonen may never have said much he had his moments. Like when the Malaysian (I think) GP was stopped last year and he didn't bother to prepare to get started again, got out of his overalls and just had a Cornetto instead.
And monaco in 2008 when he crashed out and buggered off to his private yaught to get pissed...
(Megamoss, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 17:41, closed)

And I must admit
I forgot about his conversation with Martin Brundle the day that Michael Schumacher was presented with his lifetime award, or whatever it was. Which went something like:

MB: So, Kimi, did you watch Michael receiving his award?
KR: No, I was having a shit.
MB: Oh! Well, at least you'll have a nice light car, then.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 18:35, closed)

hear hear
I hear what you are saying and wholeheartedly concur. If I ever have to suffer his face on the TV, I usually accompany it by saying "Leeeewwisss" in a high pitched whiney tone. I think he is on a par with Mansell for being annoying. Hes not that good, or he would have had a better performance last season.
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 18:10, closed)