Chuckjr wrote: ↑23 Apr 2022, 01:03
dialtone wrote: ↑23 Apr 2022, 00:50
Chuckjr wrote: ↑23 Apr 2022, 00:44
Truth.
Didn’t Lewis say he was going to come back this year stronger than ever?
So much for that. He seems weaker than ever if you watched his post quali interview.
I’m waiting for Barcelona. If Merc don’t improve the car, get ready for Lewis to completely meltdown. It will be just like the old days.
I expect Russell to start handing out beat downs regularly as the season wears on and the car stays slow. George will work better with the team as his attitude will be more consistently positive, blame free, and “can do” oriented. Lewis on the other hand looks like he’s super low energy, doesn’t want to fight, and pissed at the team.
He's been spoiled yes, but no driver would be happy being in the situation he is, few years from retirement, entering engine freeze and new regulation and seeing that they are so far behind even other Merc powered teams.
Lewis attitude isn't the best, never has been, but there's a big gulf between being upset and a complete meltdown. Russell is lucky enough to have a seat in a team like that, something for which he lobbied hard and even had unkind words for Bottas, I wouldn't pick him as the white knight in this story, he's just excited to be part of Merc and is in honeymoon phase, Lewis has 2, maybe 3 years in front of him and then he's probably retiring.
He should learn from Fred—who also is in his twilight years in a car that’s not at the pointy end, but nevertheless is full of positivity and a “can do” perspective. The entire team benefits. Lewis just unapologetically takes the team down with his negativity. It’s always been a characteristic of his I’ve loathed for the sake of the team. He did it at Macca also and it really left my cheese in the wind back in the day. He’s a petulant man.
You mean the Fred that, when he was Lewis' age, constantly moaned on the radio about his slow car, made sarcastic and public comments on the radio every race? Interesting point of reference.
As for everyone who reads a couple quotes and excerpts from media interviews and
then makes sweeping generalizations about a driver's attitude or motivation... can you really be that naïve? Do you also read a couple of news headlines every day and pretend to be an expert on world events? Think of all the feedback and criticism that a driver might give during an entire race week, and compare that with what we actually hear or read quoted from that driver - it's probably less than 0.1%.
But yeah, go ahead and assume that Lewis is a poor sport and team-undermine-r because you heard a snippet where he said "the team could have done better."
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.