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Lewis Hamilton - Why so many haters?
As the title says, Im interested to know why so many of you guys have such a hatred for Lewis Hamilton?
I am a fan of Lewis...(im not a fanboy, im not a fanboy in relation to anything to be honest).
At a time when my interest in F1 was dwindling, and I found it a bit boring 2004-2006, I was delighted to hear F1 was about to get its first black driver ever! and furthermore the GP2 champion (I'd been following GP2 during the 06 season and he was exciting as hell).
Fast forward to his rookie in F1 and my mind was blown at how he matched Alonso throughout...I dont think many would have in that position.
Now I look back today and see a driver who isnt the stereotypical F1 driver, yes he wears gold chains to press conferences, and enjoys a snapchat or two... attends fashion shows and has alot of celebrity friends.... but I dont get the smug/arrogant claims!
Why should an F1 driver be concealed in a box of how to present themselves?
Do any of you know the guy personally in order to harbour such hate?
I personally dont dislike any f1 drivers, I dont know them personally....but the hate I see on social media and in these forums is unreal, so any explanations would be welcome!
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You know what, never mind.
I don't understand why the OP seems to talk directly to us, asking for an explanation, this part of the forum has been very positive about Lewis Hamilton generally and is usually quite fair when delivering criticism. Not always, but usually.
Not sure if I appreciate OP taking his experiences in other places and sort of transferring them to us like we're part of that.
Firstly, I'll never understand how the colour of someones skin can make you interested in a sport. An exciting young driver that matches a double world champion? Sure, it is exciting to watch. But his ethnic origin? Irrelevant. I cannot wait for the day that people drop this ****, making everything about race. Sadly society seems to be going deeper down this rabbit hole everyday.
Mini rant aside, I don't hate Lewis, I don't like him much either. But I won't deny he's a top quality F1 driver and he'll go down as a legend of the sport. If in 20 years from now someone asks who I thought was the best driver I'd watched personally, right now he is 2nd behind Fernando Alonso.
I suppose his lifestyle and ideas (the limited amount we see anyway) differ too much to my own for me to like him, or form any sort of connection with his personality. That also describes a lot of the population, people are different. Some of the things he says unrelated to F1 are some what questionable as well, but then that's hardly unique to him as a person, there's tons of people I'm not that fond of. But there's few people I truly hate.
I guess on a scale of 0 to 100 (50 being neutral) he'd be about 40. And 40 is probably where I'd place most people who are like Lewis, that's just not what I'm like. Vettel or Kimi are quite private people, that speaks to me, hence why I like them. In reality though, I've got no clue what he is like as a friend or anything so I'd never call him a bad person.
Same way Brits started watching more F1 when its greatest hope shifted from David Coulthard to someone who could actually properly challenge for a title.
Same way Dutch people love F1 now that Max Verstappen is a thing.
Edit: Apparently half my comment disappeared, so;
I can at least understand the idea of following someone from your culture and country, the idea of following someone based on melanin or appearance? Nah, that's just bringing race into things where it's not needed.
I don't understand how you can follow where people are coming from with athletes from their own country, but you can't with people following athletes with the same skin color as them. It's literally based on the same kind of attraction, people gravitating towards their own.
Support/promote/reward (etc.) people based on merit.
It's clear we aren't ever going to agree on this one so let's not continue to drag this out.
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I've been an F1 fan since the 92 season.
Fact is, as you said above, the dutch now swarm f1 tracks because Max is a thing! That's how society works.
Thanks for the feedback all!
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I sometimes think I am drawn away due to the media in the uk being quite biased and the fact that society says I should support him just because he’s British.
Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That’s not my style.
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