Team or Driver, whom do you cheer??

You know the Dodgers are from Brooklyn, right??!! My dad used to go the games at Ebbit Field, I still have some of the programs he brought back from games.

 

Are? Were! They abandoned Brooklyn for the left coast, and ~60 years later, they & the O'Malleys are still despised in our family. We're of Italian descent, so we'd like to think we can hold a grudge with the best of them. T

 

generally the team, unless alonso drives for them.

 

I am happiest when the Dodgers and Ferrari are in first place and the Giants and McLaren in last.

Could it happen this year?
Well, it looks like McLaren is going to help with my dream.

 

I would assume everyobe here would say team!!! (excepto Toil but i still don't know what the heck he is doing around here!!!)
If this is Ferrarichat, i guess everyone should cheer for Ferari...but things are never this black and white...Of couse, after the team there are drivers i prefer....Kimi is probably my favourite..but i've always liked Seb as well.....Till this day there are only 2 Ferrari drivers i disliked and cheered against....Barrichelo (in his last couple of years at Ferrari) and Alonso (from his first day to the last at Ferrari....and before and after ).....the only guy i cheered outside Ferrari was Alesi.

 

I always liked Seb and Redbull... I've only known the two together. I always like Ferrari as well, but was never an Alonso fan. Now that Seb is in red... I did find myself cheering for Ferrari. I like Massa and Bottas, so I dig Williams (and I think their car is the best looking out there in white)

So it's definately a combination, but I think driver more so than team. I still like RB, but not as much as last prior years.

 

Joe Gibbs said in an interview its all about the people.

I do have driver's I cheer for, providing they aren't at a team with people I don't like. There are teams I cheer for providing they don't have drivers I don't like.

Alonso, for the first time, put my Ferrari on the "meh, don't really care if they even finish". (He did have quite the record of not DNF-ing at Ferrari though.)

I became a bit of a Seb fan because of the way he got trashed on this forum. He was very underrated at Red Bull. People said take away Newey, and Seb won't win races. Whoops.

I previously became a fan of Schumacher when the non Ferrari I followed F1 on would bo him like crazy for anything.

I was very interested in Kimi's return to F1 at Lotus. It was a fun season following an underdog team/driver.

So, a little bit of both. Right now, its the Kimi, Ferrari, Seb, RBR. If people keep moaning about Mercedes, I might convert.

 

I'm definitely a team person, and there's only one team for me. Whether I like the driver or not, I know they all come and go. But as it stands, I like both our drivers and we won last week so what's not to be happy about ... Yeah Baby!!

 

Incidentally, the U.S. pro teams I root for are the Yankees, the Islanders, and the Miami Dolphins. I don't have an NBA favorite since the Sonics left Seattle.

 

Always have a soft spot for Ferrari but when Schuey made a comeback I was firmly supporting the driver and teams came second.

Brilliant experience being more objective - I think I'm enjoying it more this way.

Best,

Sammy

 

Primarily for and against certain drivers. Secondly for a team.

 

Usually root for Ferrari, but made an exception during Alonso's tenure, at least for half of the team.

Never cared much for Vettel while at Red Bull, although when at Toro Rosso I liked watching him progress. He is not my first pick to drive on Ferrari, but was happy to see him win last week. Partly because of Ferrari, partly because he has assumed that same underdog status he had at Toro Rosso.

 

You may be wrong there.

Some people like to back the favourite, others preffer to support the underdog.

When I first got interested in Grand Prix in the late 50s, Ferrari was dominating, after Mercedes and Maserati had left. Ferrari was THE team, and the Commandatore was sneering at the British "garagists" who couldn't build a whole car.

So, I supported the opposition to "the bloody red cars" (Tony Vanderwell) and applauded when Brabham defeated Ferrari to win 2 championships, or when the combo Chapman-Clark at Lotus took 2 titles in the early 60s.

Since, the Scuderia has been caught in terms of engineering know-how and financial resources, and after the death of Enzo Ferrari, the mystic (and the shenanigans) is gone.

 

Against LOLdonado, Vettel, Hamilton (not so much these days) here.


For Button, Alonso, Bottas, Raikkonen.

And someone mentioned it earlier too, I enjoyed watching Kubica when he was racing.

 

Even at my relatively tender age I've seen many drivers come and go.

What should I do?: change my loyalties when a driver retires or follow a team, or even better, follow a team that has been racing "forever" (in my little human scale), that has been building their cars always at the same small town and even using always the same color?

 

Team first, generally. I've supported Ferrari all my life, and Michael Schumacher. I wasn't too keen when Fred came along...

 

It has always been about drivers for me.

 

Ice and SF is a double win. Can't help but root for the worst minnow per year to attain a point, GO BAD MANNERS !

 

Totally agreed

 

Whoever the number 1 ferrari driver is followed by the number 2 driver. Then usually Sauber since they have a Ferrari lump. If there's an Italian or American on the grid, I pull for them to do well but not at the expense of a Ferrari.

There aren't really any current drivers on the grid I dislike (I did dislike Montoya for a while), but I do dislike Mclaren. It's a product of rooting for Schumacher trying to get ferrari their first title in 21 years and having Mclaren thwart them, tipped over the edge a few years later with the whole spygate saga. I was also at the 2005 US Gp and still dislike Michelin for that debacle.

 

I am Tifosi!: The only drivers that matter are those that drive for the Scuderia!

Whilst they drive for the Scuderia, drivers get My full undivided support, but should they leave the Scuderia to race for another team then they simply become just another driver to try and beat, regardless of any success that they may have had with the Scuderia in the past.

Their efforts for the Scuderia will always be acknowledged and appreciated, but when they race against the Scuderia they become the enemy!

 

Definitely team. When Vettel drove for RB and was unbeatable, I hated him. Now with Ferrari, and especially after his performance in Malaysia, I LOVE him.

However, I also love Daniel Ricciardo; what is not to like about that guy? Is he the only non-primadona on the grid? The guy is definitely my first choice of who I would want have a beer with.

-F

 

I would add Button, Bottas to that list and a few others.

 

There is a flaw in the poll. Some fans, such as I, support both.

 

I support both, as I said above. If you had to split hairs, which takes priority?

All the best,
Andrew.