Looking forward to more battles. Guess we let you have Monza so you could look good in front of your fanscodetower wrote: ↑16 Sep 2024, 15:05Congrats on the race win yesterday. As frustrating as it was for me, glad it was McLaren and not RB or Merc.
You guys have a talent in Piastri. He pulled a brilliant move on Lando last time out, and this time against my man Charles. Those aren't two scrub drivers... kudos. Looking forward to some more great battles between us.
I think what we've seen over the past 2 years is fairly normal. McLaren have figured out the regulation set and have improved the car over time with each new update. While RedBull has gone backwards.Emag wrote: ↑16 Sep 2024, 14:52It’s pretty on character for this sport to hate on the team that is winning, especially if that team is not the team you support.taperoo2k wrote: ↑16 Sep 2024, 14:34Same old cat and mouse game between the FIA and the teams over the grey areas of the rules. Something is legal until the FIA decides it's illegal.
Not sure why people are getting so worked up over it. It's not as though McLaren are doing anything like Benneton did in
the 90's.
Everybody enjoys the story of the underdog until they start winning a little bit too much. You think Aston would have received love from everyone if they had started winning races and challenging for the championship this year? No, they would have been under scrutiny and something would have popped up at some point to rile up the people against them.
Competitive cars are competitive for multiple reasons. Sometimes the reasons are complicated and in the gray area when it comes to rules.
People will then spin narratives and come up with reasons to make the said team the villain and undeserving of their success (i.e the “spirit of the rules” argument).
It’s all a facade though. Essentially it all boils down to:
I don’t like this team, they’re doing something which dances around the rules, I now hate this team because it’s taking wins away from the team I actually like to win.
This literally has happened every era of the sport and it will continue to be like this.
Except that it wasn’t. They introduced stricter tests because RedBull’s wing flexing was excessive. RedBull then had to bring wings that complied with those tests within 3 race weekends (by the French GP).
3.9.9 – In order to ensure that the requirements of Article 3.8 are respected, the FIA reserves the right to introduce further load/deflection tests on any part of the bodywork which appears to be (or is suspected of), moving whilst the car is in motion
Singapore is this weekend. Will most likely be Austin like all the other teams
