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"Lewis Hamilton: 'Older voices' should be refused platform"
I agree someone 37 years old shouldn't be commenting on anything.
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I thought F1 didn't like people who said hate speech? What Hamilton said is a textbook example of ageism. Mercedes needs to drop him immediately. #WeRaceAsOne, right?
Reddit jannies are working hard to remove comments where people point out Lewis' hypocrisy:
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FIA WORKS OUT METRIC TO POLICE PORPOISING, REVEALS NEXT STEP​

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The FIA plans to enforce its new technical directive setting a limit for the vertical oscillations Formula 1 drivers can be subjected to from the French Grand Prix, meaning two more races will take place before it’s implemented.

A controversial effort from the governing body to combat car porpoising started with a data collection plan at the Canadian Grand Prix.

The new ground-effect cars are run low and stiff so have poor ride quality, and have also suffered from porpoising, and as several drivers from different teams have complained about back pain and raised concerns over potential long-term consequences of driving such cars, the FIA said it would intervene on safety grounds.

A new technical directive was only communicated to teams on Thursday before the previous race in Canada.

They were informed that the FIA intends to set a limit for the vertical oscillations drivers can be subjected to, and force teams to alter their set-ups if they are found to be breaching that limit.

The FIA has concluded its data collection and has sent a draft update to the technical directive issued prior to Montreal.

It has defined a metric by which to monitor the vertical oscillations and teams will now be asked to conduct their own analysis over the next two grands prix “to understand what, if any, changes they may need to implement in order to be compliant when the technical directive becomes effective as of the French Grand Prix”.

Updated parameters have also been issued relating to plank wear and skid stiffness, which the FIA intends to monitor to help enforce its new measurement plan.

It says these are “inherently related to the same issue, and go hand-in-hand with the metric”.

The FIA added: “These changes are necessary in order to provide a level playing field between the teams when the metric is implemented.”

One thing that has been changed is the use of a second floor stay – a short-term measure permitted by the FIA in Canada – has now been dropped.

It followed an initial agreement way back between the pre-season tests that teams could add a first floor stay, something not permitted by the regulations.

The late notice of the FIA technical directive suggested no team would be able to react in time to have a second stay on the car in Montreal, but Mercedes did.

Mercedes said the second stay, which appeared on George Russell’s car in FP1 and Lewis Hamilton’s as well in FP2, was an attempt at responding to the FIA technical directive on-site.

However, some teams disputed this – Ferrari and Red Bull among them.

That was an implication that Mercedes’ fast reaction was because it had some kind of advance information that this technical directive was coming.

In addition, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner even said that permitting the use of a second floor stay was “overtly biased to sorting one team’s problems out”.

Mercedes did not end up running the second stay beyond FP2 because it felt the experiment was not effective and it was removed for the rest of the weekend.

The second stay was considered by the FIA to be separate to phase two of the technical directive, which is defining and applying the bouncing limit.

But now neither element of the technical directive will be enforced by the FIA at Silverstone.
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Yeah it was bloody suspicious that the FIA said "2nd stay is ok" when they were all thousands of miles from their fa tories and all of a sudden merc has them fitted to their car.

It would have been an easy challenge anyway because technical directives cannot overrule technical regulations (like only 1 stay), they can only clarify or modify them. Full changes need approval from the FIA council and 8 out of 10 teams which it did not have.
 
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Racist Trash said:
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"Lewis Hamilton: 'Older voices' should be refused platform"
I agree someone 37 years old shouldn't be commenting on anything.
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I hope someone asks Alonso his opinion on Hamilton's words.

In other news McLaren giving the boot to the merc drivers when they take over the FE team.

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What will Wolff do now? He has some creepy obsession with De Vries so no way he's going to let him be out of a drive, and Vandoorne must have some incriminating pictures or something for someone to let him near one of their cars.
 
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I hope someone asks Alonso his opinion on Hamilton's words.

In other news McLaren giving the boot to the merc drivers when they take over the FE team.

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What will Wolff do now? He has some creepy obsession with De Vries so no way he's going to let him be out of a drive, and Vandoorne must have some incriminating pictures or something for someone to let him near one of their cars.
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I'd imagine Merc would just be happy to get out of cursed FE, in all honesty. McLaren making decisions that go against what they previously wanted might not matter that much, since De Vries has already had a strange career trajectory for a young driver, and Toto looks determined to keep him around in some way or another. He's definitely safe (Or as safe as one playing bottom to Toto can be), but I'd imagine there's a reasonable enough chance they'd let it pass, at least for now.
 
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Lol, Piquet's now being accused of homophobia towards Hamilton (despite the fact that Lewis isn't gay).

Can someone actually state if what he said was actually homophobic, or is it another nothing-burger like the racism accusation?
 
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Rain is coming...

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From the Met Office.

Also forecast for the weekend, protests. Probably XR or XR-adjacent. Most likely on Sunday since they are big attention seeking faggots.

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More info.

Interesting stuff from Bottas which may explain why Merc are having trouble. Merc seems to like to go 'The computer says this is the fastest set up, live with it' which sums up the abortion on wheels they have designed.
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Hmmm... Well ain't that interesting... a cynical me might suggest that this has been arranged because Lewis realised that being know as the guy who just has big numbers next to his name isn't a legacy.

I hope some shit stirrer says "Our place of work already has a diversity and inclusion charter doesn't Mercedes?"


Also thanks to the whole Piquet thing I found out he lost 80% of his depth perception in 87 (Imola) and hid it from his employers so he could keep racing.
 
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Buried among all of the other off-track drama is the news that Hamilton has apparently ceded ground in his battle to wear a nose ring that can only be removed by surgical procedure, so that he can focus on more important areas of the sport.

A cynic - one of my general height, weight and appearance - might go so far as to say that the storm in a teacup racism scandal, that threw one of the all-time F1 greats under the wheels of the safety car, was artificially generated to allow the cretinous Hamilton a magnanimous exit from the gaping hole he had dug for himself. I hope I am wrong, however, I suspect there may be a kernel of truth in this.


Hamilton appears to back down in FIA jewellery row​

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has removed the nose stud that has been causing controversy since the Spanish Grand Prix weekend.
The FIA ordered that Formula 1 drivers were not to wear any jewellery whilst driving, a rule that has been in place since 2005 but never enforced before this season, and Hamilton was the focus after being given a two-race exemption, Spain and Monaco.
He continued to wear the stud in Montreal with no action taken, claiming that he needed surgical intervention to remove it.
However, it was reported that he could be banned from competing in his home race this weekend if he didn’t comply.

As a result, he removed the stud prior to first practice getting underway, stating that he was prepared to work with the FIA over the issue, even if he believed they had bigger issues they needed to work on.
"It’s kind of crazy to think, with all that is going on in the world, that is a focus for people. I would say that it is worrying, because we’ve got so much bigger fish to fry," said Hamilton, speaking to select members of the media, including RacingNews365.com.
"We’ve really got to start focusing on other, more important areas. I will be racing this weekend. I will be working with the FIA. I would say that the matter is not massively important.
"I will work with Mohammed [Ben Sulayem, president of the FIA] and his team so that we can progress.”

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It's all just to preempt the british chav population which turns from "don't care who he is as long as he's british and winning" to "fucking nog, deport the darkies" when he loses.

We have a looong history of those types doing it to every football player and Hamilton has brought them all with him to F1.
 
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