Hamilton urged reporters to "chill"
Lewis Hamilton has urged reporters to "chill" rather than denounce Formula 1 as boring.
Mercedes has won every race so far in 2019 except for Austria, where the team suffered cooling problems. Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, in the Ferrari, instead tussled for victory in a thrilling race.
"You guys have been begging for racing for ages and you got it," championship leader Hamilton told reporters.
"Ultimately, I guess what it shows is that you can't look at just one weekend and complain because that is what seems to happen.
"One weekend doesn't go so well and then everyone is like, 'oh racing is boring'. Then you have a race like this and it's exciting, then the next race it's boring again.
"You just have to make up your mind, and chill. Racing is racing," Hamilton added.
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what would you expect the person benefitting most from the 'boredom' to say? he's just trying to protect the status quo which is killing the sport.
"...Lewis Hamilton has urged reporters to "chill" rather than denounce Formula 1 as boring...."
A what!?
Reporters denouncing the boredom in F-1!?
Either there is a new meaning to the concept of boredom that I've never heard of, or there is another reporters/media universe that I have no access to.
Pandering to Hamilton and Alonso does not qualify as boredom in any reasonable English dictionary
Just because the statement is attributed to Hamilton doesn't mean it's his or any other driver that commented's idea to make it public. The press is always seeking reaction and F1 is BIG $ business, not immune to teams acting on 'team' orders from the heirachy. I'm also suspicious of Silver Arrows sudden problems in Austria, that whole scenario stinks.
Absolutely correct about suspicious lack of performance in Austria on the part of Mercedes.
Respects!
More and more people are starting to realise the whole thing was a fix.
PS I said in one of the posts on Friday that the fix is in. Everybody jumped on my case. It now looks like my tongue-in-cheek statement was actually on target.
When you look at track temperature, humidity and wind speed etc I have some doubts.Was cooler in Melbourne but there was 50% more(approx) humidity and less wind speed albeit a flat track at low altitude. But what the hey..if there is a sudden increase in performance for similar conditions in the near future you should feel a technical reason could reasonably be expected. Just too cushy for the political position of F1!at the moment.
Fix - What a load of BS, the only fix is your anti Hamilton FIXation
You missed one - YOUR fixation with me!
You wouldn't be a pal, ar another handle, for Pam, who specializes in following my posts, would you?
it was just as boring when Vettal was winning all the time in the Red Bull. Just because Lewis is doing the same who can blame him?.
There is much truth in what you said.
Hamilton, as a person, always comes across as a genuinely nice, likeable man. And there is no doubt about his driving.
Number of years back (if I am not mistaken his father was his manager) for awhile Lewis became very troubled and controversial. Once that was corrected he took off. Unfortunately, he took off too well for his own good. The Hamilton marketing package under Mercedes auspices is less of a success and more of a dominance.
Of course there is no rule which says they cannot do that. But then, there is no rule which says that because someone is successful he must be liked. I suspect the opposite is the case. There are people who, by nature, are contrarians and buck trends. I personally am drawn to underdogs.
In short, I don't blame Lewis, I just dislike the marketing phaenomenon of Hamilton as pushed by Mercedes.
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