Thomas Davis98 said:Where did you get 44? That number is way too low. You can't just count how many points Sebastian Vettel threw away with his stupid mistakes; you have to factor in how many extra points Lewis Hamilton gained because of them.
Let’s be real, Sebastian Vettel definitely left a ton of points on the table because of his own boneheaded mistakes.
He completely blew it. He was totally locked in, but thanks to Ferrari's sheer stupidity...
Even Lewis Hamilton basically just lucked his way through that. He managed to slide through every single collision on the track without a scratch, and then he gets handed a massive win on a silver platter thanks to the competition completely screwing up.
First, his teammate punctures a tire, then he gets gifts from Toto Wolff while watching an agitated Valtteri Bottas crack a smile... and then, just for the icing on the cake, Kimi and Ferrari swoop in to finish the job. 😵
It’s pretty interesting to see what the standings actually look like when you strip away all the nonsense—no math required to figure out who got handed a gift, who got shoved off track, or who was gifted a position through some other ridiculous bullshit. When you just look at the raw results, this is where we stand:
Bottas is running neck-and-neck on track—that’s an 8-point gap between him and Sebastian Vettel.
Bottas finishes on the same level—that's 8 points shaved off Lewis Hamilton's lead.
Kimi is right on his heels—only 13 points behind Sebastian Vettel.
Kimi is right on his heels—only 3 points behind Lewis Hamilton.
If you just look at the points, Bottas is basically a non-factor. But Kimi? He’s doing an incredible job for Mercedes. Honestly, a third of Hamilton's lead came from his side of the garage. 🎉
That "genius" Ariverbene is out here dropping these brilliant takes, claiming Sebastian Vettel should have been playing wingman to Kimi. Apparently, if they’d just nailed the strategy, Kimi would've taken the win. He’s even going on about how those team orders against Kimi were total garbage. 🙏
It’s no surprise Vettel is losing his mind... honestly, the smartest move he could make is to ditch Ferrari. Staying with a boss who's clearly struggling to make sense of things just isn't a winning strategy.
Fact is, if Vettel had just kept his cool and played it smarter this season, he’d be sitting on way more points. If he hadn't wasted energy on those stupid battles, that gap between him and Kimi wouldn't look nearly as massive as it does now.
Look, it doesn't matter. It's not like the team is tasked with fighting for the championship on his behalf—their actual job is supposed to be helping him get there. 🤦
Screw Ferrari. After that performance, they deserve to be kicked right out of the garage—fast.
It doesn't even matter if he picked Kimi or Sebastian at the start of the season. When you're in a title fight like this, with Lewis Hamilton on one side and a totally subservient Valtteri Bottas backing him up all year, you have to be the No. 1 driver. There shouldn't be any doubt about that.
If you didn't back Kimi Räikkönen at the start of the season, then looking at these points right now, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. 🤦
You really shouldn't be making a call like that when it’s crystal clear from Germany that they're using Bottas as the No. 2 driver. They aren't even hiding it—they're practically shouting it all over the media that he's officially the second driver.
They even handed you an alibi on a silver platter, yet you still don't have the guts to make the call—even though it’s completely obvious and exactly what everyone on the planet expects. 🤦
Allowing this kind of stupidity while you're fighting for a championship is insane. Letting your drivers tear points away from each other and basically giving them a green light to mess around at the start? From a team management standpoint, that's just pure, unadulterated idiocy. 😵
The real tragedy is that if Toto Wolff had been in his shoes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway starting Friday, Vettel would have cruised to a win easy as pie...
If he’d been at Indy in his spot from two laps in onwards, Vettel would’ve finished second or at least third...
Because after Kimi got screwed by Lewis Hamilton, he would've just received the most casual order from Wolff to hold up Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas, letting Vettel on those faster tires catch up and blow past them way earlier...
And then, once that was done, the mission would be to pull over on the final lap—regardless of whether he actually overtakes Vettel, Bottas, or Max... Wolff would make it happen, even if it only meant grabbing those three extra points...
I'm terrified that Ariverbene is too spineless to actually pull this off, even if it were the final race of the season or if the move secured them the championship 🤦
