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Formula One driver Nicholas Latifi received death threats after controversial season finale.
Fox News Sports ^ | 12.22.2021 | Gary Gastelu

Posted on 12/22/2021 6:37:20 AM PST by Carriage Hill

Williams Formula One driver Nicholas Latifi said that he has received death threats for his involvement in the controversial finish of the championship-deciding season finale in Abu Dhabi. Latifi crashed with five laps to go, which led to a safety car period and decisions by the race director that erased the commanding lead held by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and set up a pass to claim the win and title by Red Bull's Max Verstappen on a final green flag lap.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crazyfans; deaththreats; f1; nuts
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To: tbpiper

Oh yea, so is Vettel.


21 posted on 12/22/2021 7:21:53 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: carriage_hill

Had to look this guy up: NOT guilty for the female contingent here ; )


22 posted on 12/22/2021 7:23:53 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school camncelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: carriage_hill

Had to look this guy up: NOT guilty for the female contingent here ; )


23 posted on 12/22/2021 7:24:48 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school camncelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: carriage_hill

Hamilton cut a corner to gain his lead. I have no sympathy for that rainbow helmeted drama queen.


24 posted on 12/22/2021 7:42:24 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: carriage_hill; Chode; AAABEST; al_c; arbitrary.squid; arderkrag; atc23; BBB333; Bad~Rodeo; ...

thx...


25 posted on 12/22/2021 7:56:39 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: nascarnation

“I think in Europe there’s actually quite a big overlap with soccer fans, and you know what those guys are like, LOL.”


Been watching English Premiership rugby for the last several years. Shots into the stands show fans from the different teams sitting next to one another enjoying the game. Soccer fans have to be separated by fences. How can the fan bases be so different?


26 posted on 12/22/2021 8:02:30 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: carriage_hill

Nicholas, this is the kind of crap which can happen when you give Lewis your phone number.........


27 posted on 12/22/2021 8:04:19 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Chode

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/motorsport/17110129/max-verstappen-quit-formula-one-threat-lewis-hamilton/


28 posted on 12/22/2021 8:05:37 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: kosciusko51
Not the behavior I expected from F1 fans.

Exactly the type of behavior I expect from Hamilton fans.

29 posted on 12/22/2021 8:08:23 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: carriage_hill
I don't know about this particular case, but I know 'death threats' are the newest form of 'fake hate crimes.

The real victim of fake hate crimes and 'fake death threats is traditionally conservatives... those lies made a pity party available for the creepiest liberals to wallow in...

And today the same is done with 'death threats' ...I'm guessing over 90% of them are generated by liberals trying to gin up pity and rage for their side.

30 posted on 12/22/2021 8:12:54 AM PST by GOPJ (Biden and his commie thugs don’t want us vaccinated they want us hated...)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I think most Hamilton fans are his fans not primarily because of his skills, and were probably not F1 fans before he started in F1.

I think the same is true for a few other sports (golf, women’s tennis).


31 posted on 12/22/2021 8:15:50 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Moose4

Daytona cannot get here soon enough...........

Yeah for Dec 22-—the days start getting longer.


32 posted on 12/22/2021 8:17:47 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: nascarnation

I suspect he’d have rather not crashed that million-dollar-plus car. He just lost it when the rear broke loose.


33 posted on 12/22/2021 8:18:14 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Moose4

“... that was some seriously hinky stuff that the race director did”

In all my years following F1, I’d never seen that procedure happen.


34 posted on 12/22/2021 8:19:47 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: kosciusko51

There are a lot of folks in the UK who like Hammy because he’s a Briton. After Damon Hill, there was a decade drought for a British champ.


35 posted on 12/22/2021 8:21:16 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: tbpiper

Wallace followed in Hamilton’s tracks; he is the original BLM crap fan.


36 posted on 12/22/2021 8:21:34 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

True that.
Although all the 2021 chassis are off to become show cars now because 2022 is a whole new specification.


37 posted on 12/22/2021 8:22:31 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Afterguard

What a dumbassed move that was, to knight him.


38 posted on 12/22/2021 8:22:42 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Jeff Vader

Weren’t they on the same team, but had a deathly rivalry?


39 posted on 12/22/2021 8:23:37 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Par for the course in spectator sports these days. Like most things in life one can enjoy sports in a pleasant and fun manner or go overboard and make it decidedly unpleasant. I used to follow all this when I was young but no longer care beyond checking the results afterwards. No longer invested to insane levels in any of it.


40 posted on 12/22/2021 8:29:56 AM PST by xp38
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