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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4091397, member: 966"] I don't blame Red Bull. They took what was allowed to them. But, the basic facts remain: Hamilton led the race from start, he easily had more pace than the Red Bull. He pulled away from them whenever they got close, due to Perez' or the restart. Hamilton had a comfortable ten second lead with five laps to go. Twice during the race, a safety car allowed the car behind to pit and gain an advantage because they could react to what the leader was doing. That's ridiculous. And on the last lap, the stewards seem to have just made up/changed the protocol on whether to allow people to pass to reclaim track position, and they basically turned the championship decider into a one lap sprint. Which might be acceptable IF both drivers were on equal footing BEFORE the safety car. But, no—they let Max put on new, soft tires, while Lewis had old hard tires, and then they said GO. That's insane. Stupid. Completely unfair. You shouldn't be penalized for running a perfect race and building leads at every stage. Verstappen a douche? Yeah. Consistently throughout his career. And most recently, i think he basically said that if he had the Mercedes, he would have won the championship a while ago. Douchey on multiple fronts. Disrespecting (again) his rival, and at the same time saying his own team isn't as good. And in a few races this year, he's called Hamilton "an idiot" for a maneuver, while he pulls maneuvers many times more dangerous and irresponsible. He's, by far, the most aggressive driver, and he boasts about that, and that other drivers don't drive aggressively enough... I'm going to suggest that if you win 7 championships, you're driving exactly aggressive enough. Wouldn't call Hamilton's radio comm "crying" about Perez. He said it pretty matter of factly considering he was going 200mph and had just barely avoided both a crash and losing the championship with a DNF. There's no "fandom" involved. It was completely the wrong way for a championship (or any single race) to be decided. One driver dominated the race on merits and kept having his leads taken away. Verstappen didn't earn this win, by any objective reasoning. Denying that is "fandom." [/QUOTE]

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