Luca’s grave

I have been seeing lots of negative comments under the latest Sky Sports Italy videos and articles about today’s quali: very disappointed people, very angry people, but mostly very disrespectful people. So many comments bashing Lewis and Charles for their performance in quali, saying that the championship is already lost and that they are a disgrace. I always felt that Italians (I’m Italian too, don’t come for me) have always been very critical of Ferrari in general, but the line between tough love and straight up hate is very thin and has been crossed multiple times already.

So, again,

What is it about red Italian sports teams and bad luck? Ferrari is on a whole other level of bad luck, we know it, but in the last two days Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli has broken four battens and subsequently also ripped the mainsail, gotten one of their hydrofoils stuck, nosedived, and A WHOLE PIECE OF THE CARBON FIBRE DECK WENT FLYING. Also a couple of weeks ago their mainsail rail just came off.

Some “fans” (Can they really be called fans of Formula 1 when they are ready to jump at another driver’s throat as soon as he crosses their favourite?) are getting way too comfortable with blowing things out of proportion and spreading hate online to drivers who are quite literally just doing their job, and this can go from calling Lando an arrogant crybaby and Oscar an asshole to the shitload of hate that the McLaren strategists and Zak Brown are receiving for the way they are handling their drivers; let me be clear, I am all for critiquing a driver’s character or a team’s strategy while maintaining civil tones, for example I am the first who disagrees with Max’s tendency to blow his top off like he did in Hungary, and I also somewhat agree with what Nico Rosberg said about the McLaren drivers situation, but the key here is in the ‘maintaining civil tones’ part.