Spot on Richard. We have any number of drivers and teams, both profesional and amateur, on this forum. Most have realised that bulk of the forum membership are not stupid, join in the debates in the normal manner and gain a lot of respect for doing so. Then we have those whose sole purpose in life seem to be telling the world how driver X is the best thing since sliced bread. Most people I know tend to at best ignore these posts, at worse go out of their way to support any driver other than the one being constantly promoted.
On a slightly different note, when the E&M contest was announced another poster described it as
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The winner will race the Tyrrell at Monza next May, and because the whole thing goes out on prime time TV - she or he will likely become a celebrity, and find it much easier than others to attract sponsorship should they choose to pursue a competitive racing career. They will also benefit from a long term management contract with 'Essentially Sport', with a view to promoting them into F1 over a seven year period. These guys know what they are about - they also manage Colin McRae and Jenson Button.
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Next year is the first setep into this 7 year plan and the best they can come up with is going back to short oval and another season in TVRs. Michael Schemacher must be getting really worried.