Haha, although to be fair my cynicism is reasonable given your (imo) cop out reasoning for disliking him.
It's a cop out to hate the way he acts, drives and is presented and treated?
I'm just going off the dodgy reasons you have previously given for disliking him - 'the antithesis of Button'... bizarre.
How is that bizarre? Seems pretty logical for me. I hate Vettel for all the reasons I like Button. He's like the exact opposite of Jenson on and off the track.
I suppose I'll bite, how so?
Button is the ultimate race driver. Slower over one lap, but brilliant over a race distance, and a genius at strategy & managing the car. His driving is beautiful and precise, he turns the wheel and the car flows around the turn with nary a hint of excess drama. Vettel is all flash and he finishes too quickly. Tries to win the race on Saturday. He throws the car around and corrects whatever screw up he makes and has a total disregard for keeping the car together.
Button is calm in a race, calculating. Always looking ahead, keeping it together, thinking things through. When he needs to overtake, he aims the car precisely and slides through with so little drama he makes it look like he's not really doing anything at all - that's why so many people seem oblivious to just how good at it he is. When something goes wrong, he sets his mind to work on sorting it out ("Rears going off>losing position>if Inters going off, it's dry>'I'm coming in for dries'", or "bad qualy session...Good race pace. Weekend not lost. Lap 1 critical. Must overtake - and then he does it").
Vettel is only calm if he can race off at the front. Under pressure from a faster car (Button, Turkey) he makes needless mistakes. If something goes wrong or he's in the mid-field, he throws a tantrum in the car and either loses tonnes of pace or throws the car off the track - even into a wall (Monaco, 2009). His overtaking is amateurish at best. He chucks the car past with abandon on the rare occasions he's able to make an attempt at all. He lacks Button's sense for the track positioning and smarts for getting past, and he lacks Lewis or Fernando's killer instinct - the warrior spirit which lets them blow past their competitors like conquerors on the march.
Offtrack, Vettel just rings false to me. In the same way I really like Jenson because he comes across a very genuine, likable guy and a pragmatic team player, Vettel is a false, arrogant primadonna.
There's some more, but I think you get the point.
The Frome Flyer: Smoother, Smarter, Calmer,
Winner.
Jenson Button: Professor, Chauffeur, World Champion Racing Driver.
