We are coming back with teeth and a backbone!

As someone who’s generally been more critical than most of Lewis’ past success, I honestly don’t see how he’s being outclassed by George. Lewis has been incredibly unlucky with safety-cars/pit stops this season. He would’ve been 6th (one position behind Russell) in Saudi-Arabia without the poorly timed safety car, and…

He joined Mercedes when they were still mid-field, leaving the best team at the time, winning a championship with McLaren, everyone told him he was making a mistake. But he and Mercedes climbed to the top including 6 driver’s championships together.

Agreed. ‘Greatest’ is largely subjective and can entail categories that don’t have a lot to do with racing, such as personality.

Suspect the issue was a combination of Gasly getting the tow from Albon giving him DRS, which combined with the ‘not’Honda’s straightline grunt and the Merc’s aggressive porpoising into the braking zone of the Tamburello making late braking very difficult.  The Merc was clearly a faster car than the Alpha Tauri and…

I thought Totto’s apology to Hamilton was ridiculous. Russel finished 4th. Same machinery. No excuses. I hate Mercedes. They certainly were not apologizing when they gave Michael Shumacher a crap car for 3 years.

Lewis spent the entire weekend turning into 2020 Vettel, with his car not being a contender seemingly ruining his motivation and a young teammate with recent backmarker experience getting much stronger results. This will be an interesting storyline to follow.

Plus, that $1M isn’t for just him. Add a significant other, Jos, a trainer, a manager, a few friends...

Pleeze don’t hate me, but I remember a story of Clint Bowyer, Nascar Cup driver...yeah, he’s a so-called country guy, getting a phone call:” Can you come and drive our race car?”. “Sure. I’ll be there in an hour. “. Hops into his jet that he pilots. Yep. Shows up and climbs into the race car and does great. These guys…

“ Now “led” by a madman more psychotic that Stalin.”

*hospital ship

Actually these floating obscenities

I used to do work like this. we had a guy at the docks that would call when a container ship full of TV/VCR combos would come in, he would tell me what truck and what highway it was on

*calculates*

Oh I agree. Just throwing ideas out.

“No, I don’t feel sorry but I can understand of course that it can be very painful. But at the end of the day, that’s racing as well. You have to just keep fighting until the end and you know in racing that anything can happen. And he also won a championship like that, so I think he can understand that as well.”

Max…

Max finished 1st in Wins (10)... 1st in Pole Positions (10)... 1st in Podiums (18)... tied for 1st in Fastest Lap (6)... 1st in Total Laps Led (652)... and finally 1st in Points. I would say Max earned this Championship and if Lewis had won it I would call That unfair. 

Mercedes has been dominant for years, they’ve benefitted from bad calls too. They’re coming off like sore losers that are doing their best to not appear that way.

Hamilton and Wolff ALWAYS play the humble/sad route. No matter what. They always act like the sky is falling after every little transgression. I am tired of it; it’s all just posturing.

I thought Lewis showed a ton of class after the race. But to skip the awards ceremony is a bit immature in comparison. I don’t really care if he comes back or not. He’s a great driver and arguable has the best equipment. That may be changing in short order though