Nico Rosberg (F1, retired) vs Sébastien Loeb (rallye, Dakar)
Nico Rosberg
Nominations: 2
"The guy won and left."
"cmon his nickname is britney. He up and left after his championship win. Bad bitch behaviour hes always serving cunt"
Sébastien Loeb
Nominations: 1
there wasn't a justification for this guy, and I'm just the guy running this poll, but he won WRC championship NINE TIMES?? pretty damn cool if I do say so myself
endless series of women in motorsports:
Cristina Gutiérrez (July 24th, 1991, Spain) is a dentist and racing driver. She starter rallying in 2010 and in 2015 finished runner up in the Spanish Off-Road Rally Championship. In 2017 she became the first Spanish female car driver to finish the Dakar Rally, going on to win a stage in the 2021 edition, becoming the second woman to win a Dakar Rally stage in history.
In 2021, Cristina joined Extreme E as the female driver for Team X44. In that same year, she won the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies, becoming the first-ever female driver to win it. In 2022, she went on to win the Extreme-E Championship alongside Sébastien Loeb in Team X44.
In 2022 she was the first Spanish woman to reach the podium of the Dakar Rally, in third place. In the 2023 Dakar Rally she finished in 4th position, having won the prologue of the Dakar Rally and the last stage. In the 2024, Cristina became the second woman in history and the first Spanish woman to win the Dakar Rally, in the T3 category.
Weeks later, Cristina announced she'd be joining McLaren's Extreme E for the 2024 season alongside Mattias Ekstrom. In 2025, she'll once again take part of the Dakar Rally in the T1 category.
1. And once again the only correct answer is Simi.
Their relationship truly transcends everything. There’s a 2001 interview where Kimi mentions that he doesn’t really talk to anyone but that Mika talks to him sometimes in drivers briefings, and I cannot help comparing that to after Seb arrives and carves himself a place of honour by Kimi’s side at every drivers parade. Boy was a rookie in Toro Rosso pulling Kimi closer by the hand in China 2008 and I have still not learned how to be normal about it.
And the way Kimi allowed Seb to do whatever he liked? The iconic “I love — Kimi is a very nice guy” on international television? One time Kimi was asked about Sébastien Loeb and started talking about Vettel until the interviewer told him he meant the other guy. When everyone wanted Seb’s head for daring to win a race against team orders, Kimi said he liked him. When people were calling Seb washed, Kimi was there to refute it. He’s been soft for him and defending him from the start and I want to know what on earth Seb did to get this treatment.
Edit: how could I forget Seb taking a secret elevator to Kimi’s hotel room in China 2012.
2. Kimi x long hair. It was real for two and a half years and I never moved on.
3. Kimi x snow. Oh my god he looks so pretty in the snow.