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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4091762, member: 966"] I don’t think that quote from Hamilton is at all douchey. He’s not saying anything against another person. At least, that‘s how I define it. Saying you drive aggressively is pretty much a non-statement. Everyone would say that. Because the alternative is “passively” and no good driver has ever been passive. Max has been an ass since day one. A lot of his fans have actually rationalized it as “The Dutch Way”—that it’s cultural to be ’upfront and in your face’ and that that is actually virtuous. Isn’t that character in Ted Lasso supposed to be Dutch? The unfiltered soccer player? I think that’s a riff on that stereotype. Hamilton, on the other hand, has always been pretty magnanimous. Even from the beginning when he was facing tremendous racism. He was a bit immature on the track and made mistakes, but that’s no different from any driver. He just had intense scrutiny because he was immediately driving for a prime team and he was the first/only black driver, so we saw and heard everything. I didn’t say anything negative about Perez’ driving/teamwork today. I only pushed back against the characterization of Lewis’ radio chatter as “crying.” And i‘ll disagree about what happened at Silverstone. Max’ Baku tire is a part of the racijg season. Hamilton has had things go against him, as well. They both entered fairly at 369.5 points. It was down to one race, and Hamilton executed it to perfection. This ending was like if two teams were playing for the basketball Nat Championship, and one team led all the way through, and carried a ten point lead with a minute to go, and the refs said, Hold up. The team in the lead, you gotta play 4 reserves against 5 starters, we are giving the ball to the trailing team, and the next three point shot counts for 11 points. Media got their first time champion, instead of another one for the status quo, Netflix gets their insane Hollywood season finale, and we don’t have to listen to Christian Horner whine for a year and Red Bull can stop their annual threats to leave F1…. The announcers said multiple times that Red Bull needed a miracle. Horner said we need a miracle. They were given a miracle, and it was a total perversion of what sports should be. I’ve been saying it for a while—the rules and the system suck. Far too much ambiguity and ‘discretion’ involved, even while at the same time, Hamilton got penalized for a wing infraction of just fractions of a millimeter, after Verstappen was shown touching that very component. Ridiculous. [/QUOTE]

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