F1 2021 Round 11: Hungaroring

I feel like Kimi is only in F1 as a way to pass the weekend

Sorry for double post, quote thing is strange.

Yeah, there were talks of him calling it a day at the end of the season to spend time with family etc

I just got back watching formula one regularly after about a ten year absence and was really enjoying it up to the last 2 races, then we were robbed of real race between Max and Lewis. Hamilton is one of the reasons I stopped watching it, for a multitude of reasons I am sure a documented on the forum. Ironically his stance on the environment and BLM etc are the only reasons I have anytime for him. Obviously he is a great driver and skillful racer but imho his amazing records and stats are skewed by having the Mercedes in this era and the amount of races and points per season compared with previous era's. That been said the amount of garbage I have read online the last 2 weeks has made my head spin. How 2 sets of people can look at the one incident and see 2 totally different things is beyond me. IMO Lewis knew if he didn't take Max on the first lap of Silverstone, he would have ran off with it like the sprint race, so he made a schoolboy error and took Max out. He didn't try kill him or want to cause millions in damage to Redbull. Same with Bottas missing his breaking point, again a schoolboy error not intentional. Toto was asked before race did he have a word with his drivers about the start, and to paraphrase he said if I have to tell them how to drive something has gone wrong, maybe now is that time? The damage to Perez's engine and Max's the previous race will hit them again before the season is out because of budget caps. A rule should come in, if you cause a crash you pay for it not the victim. So annoying we have to wait a month to see how this plays out. Thanks to bad driving we will miss 2 months of Max vs Lewis this year.

He's pretty full-arsed about some causes that the f1 demographic is less supportive of than the general population. Causes like BLM (if that's one of the causes you were thinking of) are not popular amongst the F1 fans in general. F1 fans tend to be older, white, middle class men so its not terribly surprising that they show more opposition to a cause like that than the general population. But I don't think you could say he shows half-assed support for it. Could you? I'd say he shows full-arsed support for a cause the f1 fans generally oppose.

He's certainty a whinger on the track though, nobody would deny that.

But I don't remember Schumacher being so unpopular with the other drivers. Agree with your description of him as ruthless and I think to be fair, Hamilton wouldn't do what Schumi did to Villeneuve or Hill. Yet their seems to be more dislike towards Hamilton than there ever was towards Schumi. I've posted two videos on page 26 of Alonso at the weekend stating that 'Hamilton is always complaining' and the he was also blocking Hamilton for Max!

Here's another from a driver's briefing-Hamilton is complaining about something Vettel done with his steering wheel and Grojean jumps in to attack Hamilton...

Romain Grosjean defends Sebastian Vettel in Driver's Briefing... - YouTube

I think Alonso is less popular among his peers than Hamilton is.

I think that would be very harsh giving the conditions, he made a balls of his braking but the conditions played a role in that too

I'd be shocked if conditions wouldn't be used as part of your defense in such a situation. If you were charged, would you seriously not even consider using the conditions as part of your defense?

Lol