Originally Posted by Blue Chip

But truth be told - she also sounds like a petty, materialistic, entitled, asshat as well.

Originally Posted by Akunob

Two men as different as ice and fire will start Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix from joint first in the world championship. Their fight has the potential to relight the bonfire of Formula One.As the sport’s new owners Liberty Media look to reinvigorate the fare, they can hope for nothing more than the great champions that are Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel going head to head all year.


On Sunday, they will be separated on the grid by just under nine yards of sun-baked Tarmac after Hamilton was second quickest in qualifying and Vettel third. Everything else between them is level: a win each, a runners-up place each and tied on 43 points.Love it or loathe it, Hamilton’s style is well known: he shares his life on social media, is blinged-up and his body emblazoned with tattoos. He is a playboy bachelor pal of fashion and music party animals. Who was Lewis spotted chatting to 20 minutes before qualifying? An electro DJ called Steve Aoki, of course.But, by way of contrast, if you ask Vettel how many children he has, the question will be politely declined. It seems he has two daughters by Hanna Prater, his childhood sweetheart. But seek confirmation of the facts and you will be reminded how closely the German guards his privacy.

While Hamilton is off partying, Vettel retreats to his family home in the countryside outside Zurich. Cows moo in the nearby fields. He loves spending time in the mountains, which he prefers to the sea. Hanna has been known to travel to races but not many. She stays out of the limelight, looking after the children and a pet dog.When Vettel was shown a picture of one of Hamilton’s tattoos and asked what he thought of body art, he said: ‘You learn things from people who are different.’There was no judgmentalism from Vettel in that remark. He has no tattoos, no jewellery and only wears a watch when sponsorship commitments require it, but there is a mutual respect between the two differing men.A battle between ‘the best and the best’ is what Hamilton calls their nascent rivalry, a feeling that at last two outstanding sportsmen can go wheel-to-wheel in top-notch equipment, something they have not done in their seven years since becoming world champions.‘Two guys at the top of their game,’ said Red Bull’s Christian Horner. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff added: ‘It’s like Federer and Nadal.’To some minds Vettel’s quiet life may seem boring. That hardly seems fair. Horner, who managed Vettel to his four world titles at Red Bull, put the positive case for an intelligent, engaging man: ‘He’s a fantastic person. He has a great sense of humour. He has an English wit.
‘He likes to watch box sets of Only Fools and Horses. He talks to his mechanics in rhyming slang. He learned bookies’ tic-tac: he’s the only driver who knows what a double carpet means.‘He sees the sport as his job and wants anonymity in his private life. That is the absolute polar opposite of Hamilton. Seb met his wife at school. He has old-fashioned values. He doesn’t believe in social media and has been a family man from a young age.’Vettel is 29 but a lover of old Norton motorbikes. He likes pen and paper. A nice pen and good weight paper. He does not scrawl messages. He writes them neatly. He enjoys words and at one time ‘kerfuffle’ was his favourite.He speaks English perfectly, half-decent Italian and a smattering of partly remembered schoolboy French. Yet he has the mind and precision of an engineer. He pores over data. Once settled on a view, he holds it stubbornly. Hence no Twitter account.‘He studied every detail and for long hours,’ said Horner. ‘Seb and Lewis are chalk and cheese. Lewis is flamboyant and relies heavily on natural talent. Seb is more analytical, more Germanic in his manic obsession with detail.‘And what you see with Seb is that as soon as he gets a sniff of blood, as now, he can select another gear.’

Originally Posted by CFGT3

to be fair to Lewis, he's always been a dick head -- it's not just a recent revelation.