Just_a_fan wrote: ↑04 Nov 2021, 11:21
And Smedley was talking about the car being the best.
Which it has been for much of the season.
Have points been dropped? Yes, because no team is perfect. Could Max and the team have done things better and had more points now? Yes. Likewise Mercedes and Hamilton. And every other team and driver on the grid. That's not bias, it's life. Humans aren't perfect.
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And just to add something about this statement by Smedley.
"If I had to choose a car, I would choose the Red Bull. I think it's just the better car and it has been all season."
Based on what?
Imola, Portugal, Spain, France, Hungary, Monza, Russia, Turkey and America, Mercedes was convincingly faster.
Red Bull was only convincingly faster in Austria. Even at a race like Zandvoort where Max won, the data shows that Mercedes was faster.
The only races Max really won by force majeure were Monaco (after a very bad weekend at Mercedes) and Austria.
But if Hamilton loses, it must of course be the car. It doesn't matter how many strategic blunders Mercedes makes, or how often Hamilton himself makes a mistake. He is behind in the championship so the car is not that good.
“It has been a better car all season" is absolute nonsens.