I got into f1 like in 2022 (because of Lando and quickly moved on from him to other drivers) i kinda feel off when McLaren dropped Danny ric and now with the Oscar stuff happening (that im keeping up with it solely through your posts) are we hoensglt surprised Zak is favoring lando/nm
Again, I haven't watched it, but from your blog it seems to me like theyre doing to Oscar exactly what they did to daniel
My dad used to like Lando too but i think it was just cause he always supports the british drivers. He went off him pretty quick too. My dads always been a lewis fan and probs always will be ngl. I actually am going to grill my dad about the race tomorrow to get all his hot takes haha.
They also did it in 2007 with alonso and Hamilton if I remember correctly (I was wee at the time but my dad spent alot of that season saying that hamilton was initially treated extremely unfairly by them)
I kinda have a feeling that what's happening here is v similar, and maybe also what happened with daniel (i didn't follow 2022 so idk) but like, clearly they had a situation up until today where they cared more about the wcc, and they were only worried about making sure that one of their guys got podium, and because lando was there for 3rd they probably wanted him to be focused on 3rd or gaining on max than having some competition between oscar and lando lose them those positions?
And in terms of how things go now, they have their two drivers battling it out for the championship and they will want to drag that out artificially until the last race just to gain maximum hype which is lame and also really risky too. I really do feel like mclaren are just a consistently shitty team, they give big talk about the mclaren family but they celebrated without oscar tonight and thats not v team coded.
A lot of people are saying thats on oscar too, but like a) how would u feel if thered been a big injustice towards you and b) theyve created an environment so hostile and tense that one of their drivers (the one that earned them the most points towards their trophy) didnt feel the want to be there. Thats a team issue not a driver issue.