Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?

Coccxys said:
Do we think Bottas is getting sick of Lulu's crying about muh niggos?

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I mean between choosing a thin blue line in-between the black for his halo colour and complaining about the black overalls and livery for the car it feels like a subtle "go fuck yourself you whiny fake diversity points piece of trash" to his knobhead teammate.
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I think every driver is getting irritated by Lewis' behaviour on the matter, and his continued pressure he's trying to apply with no actual authority or right to do so, or even really any reason to at this point - every fucking broadcast of every session when they aren't looking at cars on track is interviews with him about how he is now being discriminated against rather than when he was young (I think in passing in one interview he did say that being one of only a few black kids at school made him feel uncomfortable, yeah sure). With his continual public and private assertions that any member of the GPDA who doesn't kneel before the anthem at every race (and completely deface the intention of the protest which it represents, and just becoming a photo op) is racist and all of them should join him in his social media good boy points, despite him having never been a member of the GPDA and having previously claimed that it's pointless for the association to exist.

That said, I don't think that Bottas is complaining about the black overalls because of Lewis - it was bloody hot on Sunday and wearing black is the worst thing possible, and in all forms of motorsport you already get hot so being in black makes it worse. His complaint is that the team have given him attire which is detrimental to his health, possibly dangerous, and may very well be impacting his performance if he's losing that much weight in fluids during a race - usually it's around 1 to 1.5kg for reference.
 
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WhiskeyZuluLima said:
With his continual public and private assertions that any member of the GPDA who doesn't kneel before the anthem at every race (and completely deface the intention of the protest which it represents, and just becoming a photo op) is racist
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The almighty pile on Grosjean received for representing the views of the drivers, you know the point of the GPDA, around the kneeling nonsense then his grovelling apology blew any credibility of the while thing being voluntarily and not pressuring them into it right out of the water.

Now the Russian gp is allowing attendance (at about half capacity) I can't wait to hear the reaction of them to the kneeling shit, I'm hoping for a resounding booing which given this will be a crowd of Russians I might get my wish. The reeing would be legendary.

It's a pity we aren't hitting China or any of the gulf states this year, go ahead Lewis protest their government's treatment of other races. They were floating the idea of bringing back the South African GP for this season too, pity that didn't happen.
 
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WhiskeyZuluLima said:
I think every driver is getting irritated by Lewis' behaviour on the matter
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I read an interview with Lewis earlier this month where he mentioned that he thinks some resistance he’s encounter to his protesting crusade is because they don’t like him rather than objecting to the cause. No shit, Lewis - you go around demanding something repeatedly from people and using your status to ostracise those who don’t play along, they’re gonna take a dislike to you.

Coccxys said:
It's a pity we aren't hitting China or any of the gulf states this year, go ahead Lewis protest their government's treatment of other races.
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I suspect for those races they’d have made especially clear the protest was ‘against hate’ and other similarly vague phrases, as being held to account is for white westerners only.
 
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Coccxys said:
Now the Russian gp is allowing attendance (at about half capacity) I can't wait to hear the reaction of them to the kneeling shit, I'm hoping for a resounding booing which given this will be a crowd of Russians I might get my wish. The reeing would be legendary.

It's a pity we aren't hitting China or any of the gulf states this year, go ahead Lewis protest their government's treatment of other races. They were floating the idea of bringing back the South African GP for this season too, pity that didn't happen.
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Russia will be interesting for sure, the one I want to see is Bahrain when that happens in a couple months time, that'd be a fun time seeing Lewis try to defend people challenging him protesting the racism overseas from where he is from when in that country literal slavery and torture, why not just get basic human rights out the way first?

LetterlandMafia said:
I suspect for those races they’d have made especially clear the protest was ‘against hate’ and other similarly vague phrases, as being held to account is for white westerners only.
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Imagine using the phrase 'against hate' when if you carry on some four hundred metres or so from turn 1 of Bahrain you get a prison for political dissidents, or just women generally, really quite a lovely facility they have there though obviously.
 
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WhiskeyZuluLima said:
I think every driver is getting irritated by Lewis' behaviour on the matter, and his continued pressure he's trying to apply with no actual authority or right to do so, or even really any reason to at this point - every fucking broadcast of every session when they aren't looking at cars on track is interviews with him about how he is now being discriminated against rather than when he was young (I think in passing in one interview he did say that being one of only a few black kids at school made him feel uncomfortable, yeah sure). With his continual public and private assertions that any member of the GPDA who doesn't kneel before the anthem at every race (and completely deface the intention of the protest which it represents, and just becoming a photo op) is racist and all of them should join him in his social media good boy points, despite him having never been a member of the GPDA and having previously claimed that it's pointless for the association to exist.
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Not only does the now-standard, pre-race ceremony of empty virtue signalling feel coerced: I think that it is actively breeding resentment within teams and among fans, in a sport that has increasingly drawn talent from across the world, and drivers of all races, colours and creeds. While not every driver has bowed to the pressure, I wonder how many acquiesced so as not to sully their chances of graduating to a better team in the future.

Hamilton may have experienced racism in the sport, but I doubt that it was systematic. I've been following F1 since the late 1980s. As far as I can see, he has enjoyed an incredibly privileged ascent, with doors being held wide open for him from an early age. If a story that appeared in Popbitch a few years ago (that alleges that his dad had to intervene to save him from being expelled from school) is true, then he was something of a bully as a child.

If Hamilton was serious about his crusade against 'hate', he would come out of the closet.
 
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Williams has been bought. End of an era. I'm mixed on if I want them to change the name. Losing the name from the sport would be a pity but if it isn't the same team anyway maybe it's better it is retired?

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I really dislike Hamilton, he's constantly whining about something or other during a race. He's a decent driver, but I feel even an average pilot could get the kind of success that Hamilton is getting tbh. The car is that good.

Full Race Replay said:
today of all days Vettel can't say shit to ferrari because he spun all by himself on the first lap.
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The spin was the result of driver error, can't pretend it wasn't, but Ferrari fucked him over hard with their strategy nonetheless for no good reason.
They called him in when his (hard) tyres were still working fine, so Leclerc would get an easy pass, which made him end up in heavy traffic. Then they recall him after like 10 laps on hard tyres to let him finish the race (more than 20 rounds) on medium tyres. How dumb is that? Letting your driver do a short stint on hard tyres that are slow but sturdy and then send him out on tyres that don't have as much longevity and get a sharp decline in performance towards the end of their use. And all that in a chassis that doesn't perform well, that they refused to change.

Vettel is a very good driver, holds several pretty significant records, it's entirely impossible that he's suddenly this bad compared to Leclerc. Leclerc isn't bad, for sure, and he is better than Vettel, but that doesn't explain the significant gap between the two.
 
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This is more entertaining than the last race. It's good to have a sense of humour. I don't think Lewis really has one. Even Senna had a sense of humour, him and Berger had an ongoing prank war. I believe a briefcase got chucked from a helicopter once. It's all too slick and managed now.

 
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Oh look now Hamilton is asked about taking action that actually costs him something he's coming up with excuses and pretending that kneeling down is solving all the world's ills.

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Coccxys said:
Oh look now Hamilton is asked about taking action that actually costs him something he's coming up with excuses and pretending that kneeling down is solving all the world's ills.

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You missed the best part of the article which wasn't Lewis self-aggrandising, I feel.

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All 20 drivers are united, except for the Danish who said he was tired of Lewis forcing his political interests into the sport and trying to laud it over all the drivers, the Dutch driver who said he didn't want to take a knee to demonstrate that part of the protest is the right to freedom regardless of who/what you are, the Russian driver who probably gets shot if he gets involved, the Mexican driver who hasn't said anything about it but doesn't take Lewis' dumb fuck kneel-before-anthem-photo-op, and the Monogasque driver who said that Lewis being not a member of the GPDA made his pressuring the GPDA wrong and as such to counter-protest wasn't getting involved.

Also Vettel definitely made sure that he was named in the article as a director so he could bask in his final 5 months of glory
 
The 2nd Bahraini GP (the Sakhir GP) is to be run on the outer track. Look a bit of a dull straight line with the odd corner type track but we'll see.

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Coccxys said:
The 2nd Bahraini GP (the Sakhir GP) is to be run on the outer track. Look a bit of a dull straight line with the odd corner type track but we'll see.

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They are going to have to have close to 100 laps, otherwise the race will be over in an hour. They say it will be pretty good and fast but yeah, let's see, but glad they are doing something different at least.
 
LiveFromNS said:
They are going to have to have close to 100 laps, otherwise the race will be over in an hour. They say it will be pretty good and fast but yeah, let's see, but glad they are doing something different at least.
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I almost hope that this will shred the tyres like sandpaper, so at least something interesting is going to happen there.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
I almost hope that this will shred the tyres like sandpaper, so at least something interesting is going to happen there.
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One big thing with a very short, fast lap is how much time you lose in a pit stop, it will take longer to build an appropriate gap to make the stop and you could well be lapped in a pitstop. Makes the strategy more interesting but only if like you say it's hard on tyres and they don't get to pick their "optimal" strategy.
 
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