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Sad year for the Scuderia. Seems like Hamilton's attitude is making it worse.
 
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Ferrari management is telling Lewis to pipe down and just drive, he probably never heard that at Mercedes.

Lewis should give it one more year and if he doesn't radically improve, just retire and take the glory.
 
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Ferrari management is telling Lewis to pipe down and just drive, he probably never heard that at Mercedes.

Lewis should give it one more year and if he doesn't radically improve, just retire and take the glory.
I think Lewis is well and truly done at this point and just collecting a pay check, that said I'm keen to see what Fernando can do in a Newey designed car with Newey as team principal. We might see one old man on the podium yet.
 
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McLaren...lol. The team is so weak. The team needs to be absolutely more ruthless.
 
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Lando seems to be racing not to lose, instead of racing to win.
 
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Total McLaren cockup on the safety car. Happy for Sainz, great drive. Max is the best driver out there, period. Abu Dhabi will tell the tale in seven days.

I haven't checked but I wonder what the point spread would be if they didn't stop giving an extra point for the fastest lap.
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For the first time in a looooong while I’m absolutely rooting for Max, what a comeback season! MCL has been cooked for a while having 2 extremely competitive drivers and unwilling to back one. It cost them dearly today. The way Max attacked that first corner says it all. He’s not wrong is saying that if he was driving a MCL the drivers championship would have been locked up long ago.
 
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Absolutely surreal. When the moment came, McL just froze, everyone else acted.
 
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For the first time in a looooong while I’m absolutely rooting for Max, what a comeback season! MCL has been cooked for a while having 2 extremely competitive drivers and unwilling to back one. It cost them dearly today. The way Max attacked that first corner says it all. He’s not wrong is saying that if he was driving a MCL the drivers championship would have been locked up long ago.
Five titles in a row for Max would be incredible!
 
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Adrian Newey is going to have his hands full as the Team Principal at Aston Martin, will be interesting how much time and influence he will have on the aerodynamics front.
 
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I saw a comment on IG saying that McLaren is so afraid of playing favorites with their drivers that they're favoring Max instead.
 
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At this point I think I'm a Verstappen fan until 2026, if he pulls it off there's going to have to be a movie about it one day, how they could bottle it so badly and put him of all people in that mediocre Red Bull within striking distance of his fifth championship is insane.
 
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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/antonelli-obviously-waved-norris-by-in-f1-qatar-gp-marko/10781330/
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Link doesn’t seem to work. Marko claiming Antonelli waved Lando by.
If Yuki had done anything this year, Max would already be world champion.

Marko is a shit stirring fuckwit, can safely ignore anything he has to say. Obvious to anyone with a brain Antonelli was just racing, Toto is spot on.

I have to say, this year has been frustrating. The McLaren engineers deserve their WCC for building such a mega car, but in more competent hands that car would have wrapped both championships races ago. I don't just mean the drivers, the pit wall team as well. If they do win the WDC I think it will be hands down the least deserved WDC win in the modern era.

As far as the drivers, Piastri's drop off in performance is difficult to excuse. He's had a few years at this now, last year it was the tyre wear, this year it was the low grip tracks, he is improving but it's hard to argue he's had the measure of Lando this year, and I rate Lando easily the lowest of the top drivers. Max, Charles, George all would have walked it home in a McLaren seat against either of these two.

If anyone can achieve the miracle it's Max, but it's out of his control. He needs a McLaren fuckup. Thankfully they're pretty common...
 
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Why is it that Redbull and the FIA need to keep making announcements it’s not appropriate to make death threats against drivers whom are imagined to have slighted Max…

This is like the third time this year.
 
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Why is it that Redbull and the FIA need to keep making announcements it’s not appropriate to make death threats against drivers whom are imagined to have slighted Max…

This is like the third time this year.
Because we don't know what is going on in the background and there are a lot of unhinged, crazy people out there willing to do stuff for attention.