Posted on 12/16/2021 4:52:11 AM PST by MtnClimber
For those who don’t know, Lewis Hamilton is F1’s woke equivalent to NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace.
As FR’s expert emeritus on F!, what did you think? I was happy to see Hamilton, in his rainbow colored helmet, get passed by Verstappen.
Seems racially submissive to me, being the woke white male I strive daily to become.
I know squat about F1, but loved reading this piece! Thanks for posting!
When Hamilton came into F-1, I left. Hamilton is The Bat-Eared Bolshevik Obama’s clone. I despise them both.
That would be SIR Lewis .... fortunately, we don’t have “knights” in this country so it won’t ever be “Sir” Bubba, but no telling what the ‘woke’ Left will come up with .... he & Juicy S. would likely qualify for a similar ‘title’.
I used to watch NASCAR pretty much every weekend race ... after Bubba’s NOOSECAR episode, I haven’t watched a single race ... just killed my interest in the sport. I think what rubbed me the wrong way so much was the number of other drivers all “supporting” Bubba the next race .... NO noose and they acted like there had, in fact, been one.
Bubba Wallace has very little talent.
I don't like Hamilton much but he is a really good driver, albeit he's had the best car by far for the past 6 years apart from this year when Red Bull caught up with them. Say what you will Hamilton is a 7 time world champion.
This year's race should have been over long ago if not for Verstappen’s burst tyre in Baku with just a few laps to go, with Verstappen leading.
Then Verstappen rejoined mid-pack and had no chance until the Race Director allowed all of the lapped cars to pass Hamilton and the Safety Car and rejoin at the back of the pack, leaving Verstappen with new tires right behind Hamilton on old tires and his 11 second lead wiped out.
Woke or not, this entire season has been decided by questionable calls from the Stewards and arbitrarily enforced time penalties and inconsistent rules enforcement.
This entire season has been filmed by Netflix for season four of the series Formula 1: Drive to Survive, abd this ending was literally made to order for the Netflix series.
You mean like when Verstappen overtook Hamilton early in the race and Hamilton managed to keep the lead by illegally cutting the corner, outside the track?
The stewards may have been trying to take back the advantage they gave Hamilton earlier when when Verstappen got inside his line to make a pass and Hamilton left the track and cut the turn to come out far ahead of Verstappen. Hamilton’s team claimed he slowed to give back the advantage he got by cutting the corner. I thank that was a bad call too.
Horses are more beautiful to watch than a bunch of ads with wheels going around a track. And horses don’t care about wokeness, even if their humans do.
I can’t argue with that! I like the horses too.
I also like how Bourdais complained about Perez holding up Lewis. Well Bourdais did you complain when Bottas wrecked both Redbulls in the Hungarian Grand Prix at the first corner. Perez was out of the Race and Max’s car was damaged. Gee Bottas wrecks both Redbulls at a track which Redbulls has an advantage. Nothing wrong with that one mmm Bourdais?
Still, there’s no getting around the fact Hamilton was robbed by a race director who went for a NASCAR finish in spite of the F1 rulebook.
I remember when Senna Wrecked Prost in the last race of the year because it guaranteed him the championship. And they drove for the same team.
You propose a likely scenario but I think the last dash simply boiled down to tires - MV had fresh, sticky rubber, LH had worn, hard compound rubber. When the safety car left the track both drivers jumped on the gas and raced to the corner. LH was there first but his tires couldn’t hold the inside line. He drifted out a bit and was then passed by MV who drove impeccably to the finish line several seconds ahead of LH. ‘Twas exciting in any case.
As was the one race I attended in Austin TX at the Circuit of the Americas. MV won there also despite the Mercedes obvious power advantage. MV was a machine, hitting every corner perfectly. A tenth of a second here, a tenth of a second there, and soon MV gets the win.
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