What really grinds my gear is the constant, please neuter them, take the performance away, allow mediocrity to rule F1 again, ban this, ban that, ban Racing Point, ban DAS, change rules every 5 minutes so that the Maranello Disaster can cheat themselves again to pole positions. I wonder how Horner hasn’t popped a vein this week without protesting something.e30ernest wrote: ↑24 Jul 2020, 13:36It's "Proportionality bias". Mercedes has had an amazing string of seasons and so there must be something amazing happening behind the scenes to let that happen. Because there is no way my favorite team would be this far behind for these number of seasons if Mercedes was playing fair. Then enters confirmation bias when Bottas doesn't get penalized for his start, or Lewis doesn't get penalized for x action.mafeotul wrote: ↑24 Jul 2020, 13:15Cannot agree more,GPR-A wrote: ↑24 Jul 2020, 09:24On every team thread, there are a few posters (not many, just one or two) who have this insane, illogical thought process that, somehow things have been done to help Mercedes, by FIA and Pirelli. While here the talk is about how Pirelli helped Mercedes and the talk on Red Bull team thread is about how the simplified front wing was brought to damage Red Bull. On Mercedes team thread, there are a few who constantly peddle the conspiracy theory of how Mercedes is favoring Lewis and undermining the other guy. No one wants to believe that Mercedes has been doing a better job of building cars that works well on any given regulations since 2014 and they are driving the team better than anyone else.
No matter how logical you want to argue, these guys aren't going to believe, because their thought process is like the substance that keeps them happy. Red Bull and Ferrari teams themselves would feel ashamed from such conspiracies. Both of these teams know they haven't done a 100% job and would be happy to focus on building better cars.
On every platform of conversation, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, here and on every forum, you find the same inane arguments. Devoid of all logic, devoid of reason, spat out by people whom have little to no experience with F1 and its history. I have lost hours arguing with such people, until i am now completely disgusted with such individuals. The Valtteri is second man arguments, the FIA loves Mercedes, Pirelli loves Mercedes, stewards love Mercedes, GOD loves Mercedes etc. Everything else is a conspiracy, everyone is secretly sabotaging every team, the FIA wants all teams to do bad appart from Mercedes.
It is appalling, and i am shocked fans are so self obsessed with their teams as to not see the utter incompetence displayed by Ferrari and RedBull for many years, some with nearly the same amount of money, some with more.
It's the same concept on how people believe in a flat earth among other things.
Unfortunately, it is hard to get through to people who hold such beliefs. Any evidence you present will only make them dig deeper into their belief that there is some conspiracy to make Mercedes rule F1. If only people thought about the simplest reasons first, such as, maybe Ferrari simply got it wrong? Or maybe the mistakes made by Ferrari in 2017/18 cost them titles that would have been within their reach? Maybe Mercedes is simply operating at a higher level than everyone else on the grid at the moment?
F1 is dying, not because of Mercedes, because of Ferrari and the rest being unable to operate within acceptable parameters. Since we are on the Scuderia’s page.
2017 - equal car. Failed
2018 - better car. Failed.
2019- best engine ( however it was ) Failed.
Money spent - around 1.5 - 2 billion. Titles 0.
Still Mercs fault i assume.