There are Hamilton Fanboys and there are F1 fans.
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Where have they come from?
I follow quite a few F1 streams on Facebook, and I can't believe how cringeworthy the majority of them become as soon as Hamilton or Rosberg is mentioned.
I can't think of any other F1 driver that get the same sort of fanatical, blinkered social media support. Well not in the UK anyway. The smallest hint of any criticism and you are instantly denounced as a Hamilton hater and get offensive comments directed at you - a while back when the fanboys were all saying Hamilton should leave Merc as the team was biased in Rosberg's favour, I dared suggest that Hamilton was unlikely to leave Merc for another team unless someone else develops a competitive car, as there is no way he would have won his recent championships in any other car - you'd think I'd just told them I'd been bumping uglies with their mothers.
It guess it doesn't help that Andrew Benson and the whole SkyF1 coverage is highly biased in his favour.
There was an article tonight reporting on a Spanish radio interview with Alonso discussing Hamilton as a difficult team mate - the comments were just aggressive anti-Alonso and Rosberg, but if they had actually bothered to read he article, Alonso was being compliments towards him.
I wonder if all these fanboys are frustrated Justin Bieber fans? They don't come across as knowing much about F1 - F1 wants new fans, but these ones?
Yes, Hamilton is one of the best drivers, but many of his fans are just embarrassing. Recently I've been trying to subtly take the proverbial out of them, but sometimes I want to smash the screen!
I follow quite a few F1 streams on Facebook, and I can't believe how cringeworthy the majority of them become as soon as Hamilton or Rosberg is mentioned.
I can't think of any other F1 driver that get the same sort of fanatical, blinkered social media support. Well not in the UK anyway. The smallest hint of any criticism and you are instantly denounced as a Hamilton hater and get offensive comments directed at you - a while back when the fanboys were all saying Hamilton should leave Merc as the team was biased in Rosberg's favour, I dared suggest that Hamilton was unlikely to leave Merc for another team unless someone else develops a competitive car, as there is no way he would have won his recent championships in any other car - you'd think I'd just told them I'd been bumping uglies with their mothers.
It guess it doesn't help that Andrew Benson and the whole SkyF1 coverage is highly biased in his favour.
There was an article tonight reporting on a Spanish radio interview with Alonso discussing Hamilton as a difficult team mate - the comments were just aggressive anti-Alonso and Rosberg, but if they had actually bothered to read he article, Alonso was being compliments towards him.
I wonder if all these fanboys are frustrated Justin Bieber fans? They don't come across as knowing much about F1 - F1 wants new fans, but these ones?
Yes, Hamilton is one of the best drivers, but many of his fans are just embarrassing. Recently I've been trying to subtly take the proverbial out of them, but sometimes I want to smash the screen!
Leroy902 said:
The op seems to have quietly crawled back under a rock after realising the thread never went in the direction he was hoping 
Nope, I've just been busy doing s
t while managing to fit Quali in and catch up with Ted's notebook, but ironically your comments are the sort I would expect from a Hamilton fanboy.So what direction do you think I was hoping the thread would go in?
I was talking about the single minded nut jobs who support Hamilton as if he is some sort of God, not Hamilton himself, and many people seem to have agreed with me, so what are you on about?
This is the sort of b
ks I was talking about - the suggestion that people are only critical of Hamilton if they are racist or just bored pretty much sums it up:
Edited by Emeye on Sunday 31st July 02:27
The issue is that the fanboys spoil the debate and are scary - there is a difference between between Hamilton fans who follow F1 and Hamilton fanboys.
I'm a Button fan, but I don't blame all his technical issues and mistakes on mclaren favouring Alonso, or make extreme negative statements about Alonso - or make offensive comments about people who dare suggest that Alonso may be better than Button.
This evening all the Facebook forums are full of Hamilton fanboys saying Nico is the worst driver in the world and should be replaced is a cheat etc etc, rather than discussing the real issues around whether the penalty he had for overtaking Max is fair.
It's depressing, yet also funny at the same time as it proves my point, but not as funny as the fact that I can guarantee that the people saying I am childish for suggesting there are crazy Hamilton fanboys out there are Hamilton "fans".
Same thing with the Clarkson Top Gear "fans" I guess.
I'm a Button fan, but I don't blame all his technical issues and mistakes on mclaren favouring Alonso, or make extreme negative statements about Alonso - or make offensive comments about people who dare suggest that Alonso may be better than Button.
This evening all the Facebook forums are full of Hamilton fanboys saying Nico is the worst driver in the world and should be replaced is a cheat etc etc, rather than discussing the real issues around whether the penalty he had for overtaking Max is fair.
It's depressing, yet also funny at the same time as it proves my point, but not as funny as the fact that I can guarantee that the people saying I am childish for suggesting there are crazy Hamilton fanboys out there are Hamilton "fans".
Same thing with the Clarkson Top Gear "fans" I guess.
Derek Smith said:
I'm a fanboy, and have been for some 30-odd years I've just realised. I am a fan of McLaren. That doesn't make me somehow not an F1 fan. Following a specific driver or team in no bar to enjoying the sport.
I'm also something of a Hamilton fan, although things became a bit frosty when he left McLaren, but enough of that. His first year was thrilling, and thoroughly enjoyable. Then there are his subsequent years.
I tend to like a driver for his driving. I'm a fan of Max, as many people are. I have no idea what he is like personally and I don't really care. If the worst he does is bite the heads of chickens, then go man.
However, one aspect of LH's behaviour impressed me. His response to Mosley's 'offer' to go emperor's evidence at the Stepneygate fiasco was rather different to the other two drivers. Yet it was a risk to, in effect, stick two fingers up to the person who dominated the sport. He must have known that after the Benetton fuel rig rigging, guilt or innocence would have had little to do what might happen to him. Compared to how Alonso behaved . . .
It seems to me that there are fans of particular drivers, as there have always been, and those who get upset at this.
You are not a fanboy. What you describe yourself as is a true F1 fan.I'm also something of a Hamilton fan, although things became a bit frosty when he left McLaren, but enough of that. His first year was thrilling, and thoroughly enjoyable. Then there are his subsequent years.
I tend to like a driver for his driving. I'm a fan of Max, as many people are. I have no idea what he is like personally and I don't really care. If the worst he does is bite the heads of chickens, then go man.
However, one aspect of LH's behaviour impressed me. His response to Mosley's 'offer' to go emperor's evidence at the Stepneygate fiasco was rather different to the other two drivers. Yet it was a risk to, in effect, stick two fingers up to the person who dominated the sport. He must have known that after the Benetton fuel rig rigging, guilt or innocence would have had little to do what might happen to him. Compared to how Alonso behaved . . .
It seems to me that there are fans of particular drivers, as there have always been, and those who get upset at this.
I disagree - I never said that as an F1 fan you cannot be a Hamilton fan.
I started this thread due to my frustration with the "Hamilton fans" who think Hamilton can do no wrong, and that Rosberg is the devil. They are incapable of having constructive conversations about F1 and they ruin every discussion thread that I come across.
If you are so fixated on one driver and are unable to see the whole picture, I cannot see how you are a proper F1 fan, as F1 is bigger than one driver - unfortunately it seems that there is a growing army of Hamilton "fans" that are like that - and it is definitely getting worse - are these Fanboys really good for the sport?
I started this thread due to my frustration with the "Hamilton fans" who think Hamilton can do no wrong, and that Rosberg is the devil. They are incapable of having constructive conversations about F1 and they ruin every discussion thread that I come across.
If you are so fixated on one driver and are unable to see the whole picture, I cannot see how you are a proper F1 fan, as F1 is bigger than one driver - unfortunately it seems that there is a growing army of Hamilton "fans" that are like that - and it is definitely getting worse - are these Fanboys really good for the sport?
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