When someone takes a joke literally and then turns it as an argument to support their view i personally
don't engage with that opinion, i just wonder why one would then spin it further, at first glance unironically.
Either way, veering further and further off topic with this but here's the full official transcript from the
presser :
https://www.fia.com/news/f1-2023-japane ... transcript
I have no clue. I would think that, if they're not 30 seconds ahead, like they have done in the past then something's up ... But no, I think that as Checo said [note: it was setup related], it was obviously a difficult weekend, the last one, but their car should be phenomenal here. They’ve been phenomenal all year long. They've aced pretty much every circuit. And I mean, it's going be great to watch that car in general. Normally, you would come here and it’s beautiful to watch the laps that they do, because the whole team as a whole and the drivers are doing an amazing job with the package they have. So, it'll be interesting to see how the weekend goes. I hope that we are closer and I hope they’re not as fast as that 30-second gap they've had in the past.
He's actually full of praise for a competitor and it just shows the sad state of F1 media et al when it gets miscontrued as "Hamilton says if RB doesn't win by 30s they've been cheating" or similar - funnily enough even in jest he was only off by 10 second as Red Bull dominated the race weekend aaaaaaaaand to just about make the turn to on-topic
[hello mods]: that means that they likely did not lose any meaningful performance from the two TDs.
edit: changed the wording to better reflect what i meant