As a girl, I always had a tendency to get crushes on athletes instead of movie stars or singers. I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan today because of Roger Staubach. So the racing gods took a great-looking, dark-haired, blue-eyed California boy and stuck him in a pretty race car. From a sports-loving chick's point of view, what's not to like?! LOL!!!!!! (The "real" men here on FR will hate him for sure, now.)
Ms. VC has a crush on Gordon too.