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Social media is trash, right? So many people don’t seem to understeer the sport. All I’m seeing is “Bottas caused the crash, burn the SC driver, stupid green flags”etc. F1 embracing social media has been a thing of beauty but it’s also opened the sport up to so many people who are there just to abuse, troll and generally be disrespectful.
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At the time Bottas said the "need safety car" line, I thought "How defeated do you have to be to be thinking like that"
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Merc will never fire Bottas, his miles off the pace of Hamilton, but good enough not to bin it and finish 2nd place. Occasionally he’s allowed to win but in general he’s not good enough to challenge him. Why would Merc want a second driver who can challenge their star man
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The Hamilton/Rosberg pairing must have been incredibly tedious to work with. No point creating that again.
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Strange, because I see him with every opportunity to win, but Hamilton is just better. I agree with the pairing though, why upset the Apple kart....at the end of the day Bottas is doing everything required of him, he brings home points and is a solid number 2 driver on talent rather than contract. |
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The whole podium from the weekend before all crashed out. Wonder how many times that has happened in F1 history.
Grsojeans radio made me chuckle after the re-start crash, blaming the person at the front... The person who dictates the pace of restart...and he is on the GPDA! |
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Rosberg was with Mercedes from the beginning in 2010 and had been there for three years before Hamilton came along. I wonder if he felt he should have been their number one driver because of that?
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Russell must bed the unluckiest driver looked like he and williams were on for points then, back to last. Agreed Bottas not looking very happy but to be honest for the money he is getting he is not performing.
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When you have a team mate, who is clearly the better driver and the team is primarily setup around them, it can't be easy keeping oneself motivated, no matter how much you are getting paid.
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He's not doing the job he wants to do though. He's not constantly losing out to Lewis on team orders, he knows full well that Hamilton is just better....
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Can’t disagree with that. Problem is it doesn’t matter what version of Bottas we get Lewis just seems to be better. Must be frustrating for Bottas, especially this weekend when it seemed he was on top during Friday
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