Lewis Isn't The Greatest, Says Survey.

[Fujisan]

A little something too chew on:

Mercurial racing talent Lewis Hamilton might have spent the entire 2007 Formula 1 season breaking records, but he’s got a long way to go before being rated as the greatest star the sport’s ever seen. At least he has unless thousands of the sport’s European fans are wrong.

Renault team sponsor ING surveyed 8500 F1 lovers and, while the 22-year-old romped home in the UK vote for popularity of current drivers, he didn’t even feature in the European stakes of all-time greats.

Here’s the all-time top eight according to ING: 1st: Ayrton Senna, 2nd: Michael Schumacher, 3rd: Nelson Piquet, 4th: Nigel Mansell, joint 5th: Mika Hakkinen and Robert Kubica, 7th: Kimi Raikkonen, 8th: Alain Prost.

In reaction to the poll's results, ING spokesperson Isabelle Conner said: “F1 is a truly global sport and our first ever ING poll throws up some fascinating results.” With no place for multi-championship-winners Juan Manuel Fangio, jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart or Niki Lauda – and a rather spurious one for Pole Robert Kubica, who so far has one 3rd place finish to him name – “fascinating” isn’t the word we’d use.

Perhaps Autocar Award-winner Lewis Hamilton shouldn’t be too concerned. Perhaps he wouldn't expect to be rated so highly so early in his career. Either way, it seems, there's still no accounting for taste.

I agree with with the number 1 slot, Senna was the greatest!

Not so sure about the other placing's. Kubica 5th? I think they must have asked a lot of Polish people their opinions!