Post by geoffPost by Bobsterdid.
But what we're talking about here is something different - it's judgement's on a driver's makeup based on some claimed special power of insight into the drivers psyche.
Post by geoffSo why complain about the same treatment to Stroll ? OK less time to
evaluate so far....
Is anybody else going to the same lengths that ~misfit~ goes to to not only dislike a driver, but to try to present his dislike as something actually scientific?
No. It's more to do with a scepticism of true innate ability, as
progress would appear to be somewhat (more ?) related to daddy throwing
money to facilitate.
Yes. There is that - though we always have to remember that Stroll got his super license by winning the Euro F3 championship. For a good team, yes, but there were other good teams. With Williams setting up his car, yes, but a team like Carlin is not going to be totally clueless when it comes to the technicalities.
He's had a lot of success in junior formulae. Dad would have to be not just rich but stupid to keep on bankrolling him if he were getting nowhere.
But this is not a one-off rant from ~misfit~. He repeatedly plays this card of having special gifts at being able to read people, always attacks (or praises) on the basis of things that can't be seen. Which he needs to, because drivers he detests have won 5 world championships in the last decade, and another one he fancies is behind Stroll in the championship this year.
His right, of course. Freedom of speech and all that. But anybody else's right to disagree and to say that they do.
Post by geoffThat may or may not actual manifest itself in the driver's psyche, which
may or may not become apparent in the future.
Well, I'm wary of those things. Most of us find what we want when we read between the lines. Some things are valid - the assertion that Hamilton is not a team player is one such, because there's some actual evidence. There is a lot controversy around Alonso's career - not many drivers would threaen to blackmail their own team (though how many have been in a position where they could is another matter). Vettel likes a good moan. And etc. But those are in a different realm - we see these things going on.