Justin Beaver in on an F1 forum in a thread discussing Kimi Raikkonen?
Ye Gods, is that not one of the 7 signs of the apocalypse?! 
Hammer brought him up
I was talking about Alonso, perfectly appropriate.
Alonso usually comes top of the polls from current f1 drivers, team bosses, and journalists.
It's just the channeling of mass media talk where everyone goes along with the popular vote...so according to stats and records sold you're saying Justin Bieber's music is great? 
Apart from these polls being done anonymously, why would people who deal with F1 day in day out listen to mass media talk? They have more information than the mass media. Anyway, does Beiber regularly get called the best from fellow musicians, music critics and music producers? False analogy.
No one actually has poles and votes on who's the 'best musician/pop singer/artists', the grading concept is looking at records sold/platinums/etc. And Bieber leads...because his fans have spoken. His fans speak, thanks to media channeling. Why wouldn't people in F1 listen to mass media talk? It's all around them, even more than it is for us!
Yes, but those grading concepts are down to how many his fans buy, I don't know a lot about music - I prefer to let Nintendo set my soundtrack - but best ever is down to general feeling and opinion polls isn't it?
At anyrate, that is different to the votes from F1, why would they bother to listen to the mass media talk? It's a lower level of useful information to them, they vote on these polls anonymously, they have access to loads more information than those who go by the mass media do.
If anything,
mass media in f1, rates Schumacher as the best, since the statistics on WDC are the ones best known generally, or by current best, maybe the reigning WDC, or the current leader.
I think you need to look at my posts in the now playing thread.