F1 Fanatic

Has to be 09 for me. I was such a button and Honda fan for 07 and 08 and was so upset by the thought of him and rubens not racing that everyone was consolidating me that they were out during the winter. I always admired button more than Ham – i think because Ham had a decent car from the off and loads of my mates (who were not f1 fans) suddenly were supporting Ham because a British guy was suddenly getting podiums in 07 and 08, and i always thought just give Button a car and lets see. His loyalty to Brawn and co over the winter instead of going to a lower team meant he trusted them and their promise of securing the team and a car good enough. I did not miss 1 second of that season and remember his win and how emotional i got from Melbourne (in fact i still remember that quali session!) and when he clinched it at Brazil….just wow… I will always remember that and as a result i find myself valuing loyalty a lot more in my life!

^ I agree with that

Bring back V10′s
Get rid of KERS and DRS
Replace deliberate weak Pireli’s, with the old Bridgestones
Bring back driver’s with personality’s and true sportsmen; Ear ring tattoo wannabe rapper Hamilton, and sooky cry baby Vettel who just happen to be one of the best two driver’s on the grid is just sad.
Classic tracks such as Imola, A1 Ring, Magny Cours should return! Now every new track we get (seems to be very year or so) is a Tilkedrome.
Nice looking cars!

My opinion is that sadly F1 just is not what it use to be. Though maybe the ‘old F1′ is just what I prefer, and that many others are loving the new era as you might say.

Funnily enough my favorite was 2010:P

Not to be a total buzz-killer here, but this is not a nostalgia thread; it’s a topic about your favorite F1 season.

2003 was brilliant a season it was really good. Kimi should have won.

2010 and 2012 were great years, in general I think the seasons 2009-2013 will be seen as a second ‘golden era of Formula 1′ in the future. But for me personally, 2008 must be my favorite season. Up until then I was following F1 casually, but after the season finale I started following the sport more closely.

2012, 2008 and 2007 for me (been following the sport since around 2003 or 2004)

2007 and 2008 both had very interesting championship battles and some great races but 2012 was just too damn great to be ignored. I can’t remember any season that had as high percentage of exciting and fun races really.

2013 will probably be very good too.

Easy- 1988, Senna’s first Championship. Utterly dominated by McLaren (15 from 16) and may have not have been great for non Senna/Prost/McLaren fans, but the intensity & rivarly between the two was imense (and unfortunatley lead to the split over in 1989) and I dont think this rivalry has been seen before or since.

A post said that guys like Senna & Schumacher hassled the engineers for info and Prost would play golf- a change in the character of the ‘new age’ drivers- basically a dig at them doing the 1%ers to be better than the other drivers. Senna took the professional driver to a new level never seen before, and The Schu took it to the next level again.

I loved 1988 and suspect Prost’s golf handicap blew out a few strokes towards the end of the season when he could no longer rely on raw talent alone and was forced to become a “professional Formula One Driver” even after being a 2 x WDC!!

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