ruggedhawk20 said:I honestly don't know what's going on with poor Ferrari. It feels like they're suffering from some kind of rapid aging disorder. They look old, they drive like they're old... they just seem like the oldest team on the grid. Even Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, and Lewis Hamilton seem fresher and sharper than them. And despite being chronologically older, those guys all seem biologically much younger. Ferrari acts like they've already got 50 years on them, even though they're only about 34 or 35...
Age isn't the issue here—it's their mental state, which is absolutely bottoming out. They really should have taken a year off to reset. Either fight for a seat at a top-tier team or just call it quits instead of dragging out this whole agonizing decline.
This was one of those races where you could honestly say the driver in the slower car took it; Lewis Hamilton just used his sheer experience and racing IQ to outclass Max Verstappen, and you have to give him credit for that.
Who on earth allowed that idiot Nikita Mazepin into F1 in the first place? First he tries to overtake Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes-Benz, and then he just spins out like a complete amateur and ruins everyone's lap.
Maximilian worked hard to top every single practice session, but we all know how much that actually matters. He seems to have gotten a bit too cocky after those tests thinking he’s untouchable, but at the end of the day, nothing counts until the actual race starts. I've got a feeling he's going to get played by Mercedes when it really matters.
Nicholas Walker40 said:I feel the exact same way about Michael Schumacher. Let's just enjoy Lewis Hamilton while he's still at it.
Yeah, let's all just cheer for a driver who cruises to wins and titles like it's nothing because they have a car that's a second faster and a teammate relegated to second fiddle. Yeah, that's definitely what I'm going to miss...
This year, they're going out of their way to make sure awards are handed out with perfect mathematical balance—men, women, Black people, white people, Asians, Jews, the dead, the living, the old, the young... as if they care about the actual quality of the movies.
If people stop playing games and deciding someone deserves an Oscar just because they passed away or because of their race, then Anthony Hopkins should definitely pick up his second one here. It’s honestly a crime that a talent like him only has one, especially since he was basically a supporting player in that movie.
It’s honestly getting hard to listen to how much this Vettel fanboy obsesses over Ferrari. He’s out here comparing a blatant divebomb to a totally standard overtake from last weekend where Ferrari just completely messed up. You can tell he's seriously frustrated.
Mercedes messed up because they went for a double stack and struggled to find their rhythm with a new driver on the roster. They made similar blunders back at the German Grand Prix in 2018, and we saw it pop up a few times this year too, especially during the races in Italy and Russia. It's obvious that if George Russell were in this car, he’d probably take the win along with most of the rest of the grid. But you have to actually develop a car to this level through years of grueling work—it's always a mix of driver talent and team execution—and once you've done that, reaping the rewards becomes much easier.
Even whenever you bring up Mark Webber, I always find myself wondering about a couple of things. First, did Red Bull actually call him into the pits during the 2010 Dubai race just to bait Fernando Alonso into a trap? And second, after that mistake in the rain where he hit the wall at the Korean Grand Prix in 2010, did he intentionally leave his car spinning out there just to take out a title contender? (Though, unfortunately for him, he ended up taking out Nico Rosberg instead).
Look, I’m not exactly his biggest fan, but if we’re talking about the current drivers fighting for the top spot in Formula 1, he’s probably the one I dislike the least. But let’s be real here—blowing a 17-point lead with just two races left? That isn't something just anyone can pull off (and then basically repeat the same mistake next year)... What’s actually interesting is how incredibly lucky Sebastian Vettel was. Because of that collision with Mark Webber and some sort of spill that could have easily been the first win for Red Bull Racing, he didn't face any serious penalties. Honestly, that habit of nearly taking out the guy in front of him during an SC almost became his trademark in the following years. He actually had a pretty rough start back in 2008 too; I remember people calling him the "crash kid" or something like that. Then he pulled off that massive turnaround at the Italian Grand Prix and eventually landed the seat at Red Bull Racing in 2009, where he once again started the season acting like a "crash kid." Those few little mistakes early in the season effectively cost him the title that year.
Why isn't Waterworld listed as his magnum opus? Besides, there have been various extended versions of that movie popping up online lately. I've seen most of his work, and in my opinion, the absolute best are Bull Durham, Dances with Wolves, JFK, A Perfect World, and I especially loved Open Range because his chemistry with Robert Duvall is just perfect.
